Linden 78

The Marketing Directors has replaced Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group as the exclusive marketing and sales agent at Upper West Side condominium Linden 78 — the latest in a series of shakeups for the project. The Marketing Directors released a statement earlier today announcing that it is now handling sales at the 34-unit condo, which is located at 230 West 78th Street. Corcoran Sunshine has been marketing the building since it went on sale in 2007 and had sold nearly all of the building’s units by the end of 2008. But the project hit a major speed bump in April, when it was required to offer all of its buyers the opportunity to back out of their contracts.  More

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The developer of 22 Renwick is refuting buyers’ claims that the first closing in the building was a sham. “We’re not doing anything tricky here,” said Andrew Bradfield, a principal at Orange Management and the developer of Renwick along with Helix Partners. Buyers in the building have filed applications with the attorney general to get their money back, saying they’re entitled to a right of rescission because of delays at the site. Bradfield says their applications have no legal merit and some buyers are merely looking for steep discounts from the originally agreed-upon sales prices. “They’re treating it like they can close at that price [only] if they feel like it,” he said. “That is not the idea of a contract.” [more]