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According to a recent report from the New York State Comptroller's Office, high housing costs  negatively impact the quality of life for millions of homeowners and renters. In the study titled “ Housing Affordability in New York State …

A company that owns about an acre of land in Elmhurst, Queens had originally eyed a new condominium project to be built on that site.  Instead, the company has put up the lot for sale with an asking price of $13.8 million. What hamstrun…

Updated 6/20/19, 9:53 a.m.  You could own two pieces of property that once belonged to Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, courtesy of the American government.  Manafort is currently a serving seven-and-a-half-year feder…

Boards -- whether co-op, condo, or HOA -- hire managers to handle the administrative, operational, and social sides of what can often be a tricky field. How much leeway a manager has to get the job done depends on several different variable…

The site of an early 1900s single-family house in Washington Heights will be the future home of a new environmentally-conscious, technologically advanced condo development --  another indication of the latest changes happening to the old ne…

It sounded too good to be true when it was first publicized last year: buy an $85 million Manhattan penthouse condo, and you'll get two Rolls Royces and a trip to space as perks.  Now it might've been just wishful thinking. The New York…

For a fleeting moment, it appeared as if Jeff Bezos had emptied his proverbial shopping cart and left New York behind after the fallout from the Amazon HQ 2  reversal . But it now seems like the famed billionaire and CEO of the …

Like many other American cities, New York City is currently mired in an affordable housing crisis. And the situation seemingly grows more dire by the day. As Gothamist reported earlier this year, weakened rent laws and economic pressure…

Dealing with indoor pests -- be they rodents, bugs, or even birds -- in multifamily settings has been a challenge ever since humans started living in close proximity to one another. In this clip, a trio of pest control experts discuss how t…

To actually remove floors or space from a newly-constructed building because of a violation of zoning rules is quite rare as it is drastic. And i t is a situation that a nearly-completed Upper East Side condo tower could be facing.   Manh…