Composer John Philip Sousa and the renovated townhouse at 80 Washington Place

A single-family Greenwich Village townhouse once home to composer and conductor John Philip Sousa that languished on the market for a year is back with new brokers and a lower price tag, the New York Observer reported. [more]

A screenshot from the Wall Street Journal

If there’s one thing that real estate marketing directors won’t let house hunters see in listing photos, it’s pets, the Wall Street Journal reported…. [more]

Reid Price and a rendering of the Sterling Mason

Town Residential has sent Reid Price, the firm’s recently departed new development chief, a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he halt his involvement with the new development marketing division of his current firm, Douglas Elliman, according to sources close to the company. The firm also called on officials at Elliman to end the company’s relationship with Price. [more]

Reid Price

UPDATED, 1:22 p.m., April 26: New development guru Reid Price has joined Douglas Elliman just days after suddenly leaving Andrew Heiberger’s Town Residential. Price had been the managing director of Town’s new development and sales division and will hold the title of executive vice president of development marketing at Elliman.

At Elliman, Price will work with new development chief Susan de Franca and managing director Horacio LeDon on the marketing of projects such as the 33-unit Sterling Mason at 71 Laight Street in Tribeca, according to a statement from the firm. [more]

Reid Price

Reid Price, one of the first recruits of two-year-old brokerage Town Residential, has left the firm, The Real Deal has learned.

Price, a managing director who headed Town’s new development division, joined the company in 2010. He was one of a first wave of high-profile brokers to move to Andrew Heiberger’s start-up from firms such as the Corcoran Group and Brown Harris Stevens. Price had previously specialized in new development marketing at Brown Harris Stevens alongside prominent broker Wendy Maitland, who also moved to Town, where she is now senior managing director of sales. [more]

Marina Abramovic and interior images of her new home

The artist is present…at 330 Spring Street. Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, who once claimed that “art should be disturbing,” purchased a two-bedroom spread at the building, dubbed the Urban Glass House, for $2.65 million, the New York Observer reported. [more]

William Beaver House

Changes are afoot at the William Beaver House, the 47-story luxury condominium-turned-rental building at 15 William Street in the Financial District. For one, Rose Associates is out as both the leasing agent and property manager for the 300-unit tower, sources confirmed to The Real Deal. [more]

From left: Andrew Heiberger, the new office’s signage and 530 LaGuardia Place (source: PropertyShark)

Town Residential has opened a new office located at 530 LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village, marking its eighth location in New York City, the firm said today. [more]

Andrew Heiberger

Residential brokerage Town Residential has renewed its retail lease at 110 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District for an additional 10 years, the Observer reported.

Its office — home to 125 agents and staff members — includes 17,000 square feet of space on the sixth floor of the building. [more]

Richard Kaul, 69 West 83rd Street and Wendy Maitland

An Upper West Side brownstone owned by Richard Kaul, also known as the “Dental Death Doctor,” has gone into contract for $8.3 million, after a dispute between Town Residential and Luxor Homes Investment Realty over which brokerage had the exclusive listing, The Real Deal has learned. [more]