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  • From the February issue: Ever since the credit crunch barreled into Manhattan, New York City condo developers have partnered with preferred lenders to help their buyers get mortgages in a difficult financing climate.

    Until recently, however, individual home sellers rarely got involved in buyers’ mortgage woes. But that is now starting to change, brokers say. [more]

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  • The best and worst deals

    August 03, 2009 11:43AM

    From the August issue: Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the fall of Lehman
    Brothers — a date often referred to in “pre-” and “post-” terms in the
    New York City real estate market. With that in mind, The Real Deal zeroed in on the 15 best and worst deals since Wall Street’s collapse and the earlier onset of the credit crunch.
    The deals were selected based on interviews with real estate
    professionals, published reports from the past year, research and an
    informal survey. While the list includes some high-profile examples, it was not
    designed to revisit all of the soured deals that have been staples in
    the headlines. Instead, it’s a cross-section of not only big-ticket but
    also lesser-known significant deals, which might otherwise have gone
    down as footnotes. Comments