New York Real Estate

As Tenants Feel Squeeze, Harlem Rep. Rents 4 Apartments at Bargain Rates

NY Times | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Rent, House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel, New York Real Estate, New York Politics, Rent Stabilized Apartments, Politics News

While aggressive evictions are reducing the number of rent-stabilized apartments in New York, Representative Charles B. Rangel is enjoying four of the...

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Just Following (Economic) Orders, or How Real Estate Turns Good People Bad

Peter Miller | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Real Estate, New York City, Gentrification, New York Real Estate, Wal-Mart, Business News
Peter Miller

Limiting the money apartment buildings could make from their retail stores prevented the Wal-Mart-ization of NYC. But the law changed, and now they can cash in on whatever rents the market can afford.

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With Wall Street Layoffs NYC Real Estate Takes Hit

Reuters | Julie Haviv | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, New York Real Estate, Real Estate, Business News

While most of the United States has suffered a housing slump over the past two years, home prices in New York's Manhattan have been largely unscathed,...

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Falling Cranes and New York's Growing Pains

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Crane Collapse, Upper East Side, Crane Collapse, New York Real Estate, Michael Bloomberg, Real Estate, Gossip Girl, New York City, Breaking News, Gentrification, Politics News
Sherman Yellen

Events like this morning's disaster will happen again and again because in Bloomberg's New York a crane hangs dangerously over the world below every few blocks.

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McKibbin Lofts: Would You Live Here?

New York Times | Cara Buckley | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: New York Real Estate, Apartments New York, Loft Apartment New York, Loft Living, Mckibbin Lofts, Living News

One "room" is a cramped cubby that measures, in all, perhaps 25 square feet, just enough for a full-size mattress and whatever can be stashed beneath....

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Best Cities For Home Sellers

Forbes | Matt Woolsey | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Home Buyers, New York Real Estate, Housing Slump, Housing Market, New Contruction, Home Sellers, Business News

Though luxury home buyers took a big bite out of the Big Apple last year--properties in the Plaza Hotel and condos along Central Park West sold for re...

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Soccer Star Is First Confirmed Trump SoHo Tenant

New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 02.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Trump Soho, Soho, New York Real Estate, Real Estate, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Rodrigo Nino, Inter Milan, Business News

Once, SoHo had no Trump skyscrapers, no hotel condominiums and no luxury spas or private cabanas, and even further back there were no hedge-fund manag...

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Europeans Are Buying Up New York City Condos

New York Times | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business

Read More: New York Apartments, Housing Market, Weak Dollar, Euro Dollar, New York Real Estate, Housing Bubble, Real Estate, Business News

The sidewalks of Manhattan are crammed this month with European tourists on shopping sprees, picking up gifts that cost far less in the United States ...

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