Brokers buy at 15 CPW 04/10/08 Real estate brokers Noel Berk and Elizabeth Omedes paid $3.2 million for a 1,718 square-foot-condominium in 15 Central Park West, according to city records posted today. The pai...
Fund manager buys at 15 CPW 04/10/08 Institutional investment fund manager Mitchell R. Julis paid $10.1 million for a 2,900-square-foot condominium unit at 15 Central Park West, according to city records posted tod...
Steel goes up at 11 Times Square 04/09/08 Iron workers began assembling a steel frame in Times Square today for the largest speculative development under construction in Midtown Manhattan. SJP Properties is building the...
Hedge-funder buys at 995 Fifth Ave. for $12 million 04/09/08 Billion-dollar hedge fund manager Karim Samii paid $12.6 million for a 10th floor cooperative unit in a landmarked building at 995 Fifth Avenue, according to city records. The s...
Big Rego Park apartment building selling for $75 million 04/07/08 A partnership between New York real estate investment firm Vantage Properties and Philadelphia private equity firm Lubert-Adler went into contract last week to buy Rego Park's l...
Rockrose buys out partner at 45 Wall St. 04/03/08 Rockrose Development Corp. became the sole owner of the apartment building at 45 Wall Street after buying out the controlling interest from an Illinois pension fund for a net pr...
Private contractors to inspect cranes 04/02/08 The city Department of Buildings, under pressure to inspect about 250 construction cranes around the city, said in a statement to The Real Deal that it will use private contract...
This month in real estate history 03/31/08 1986: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center opens
The sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center opened 2...
Bill would repeal mortgage tax 03/31/08 A freshman Staten Island assemblyman has introduced a bill that would repeal the mortgage recording tax, which the city relies on for more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Alb...
Developer makes quick million on Greenwich Village townhouse 03/27/08 Developer Scott N. Resnick has made a quick million-dollar profit from a Greenwich Village townhouse, which he sold for $4.6 million in February after buying it for exactly $1 m...
Construction industry hopes new cranes can operate soon 03/26/08 A day after the city Department of Buildings announced tighter safety measures for the raising of tower cranes, construction industry officials say they still don't know when th...
Stalled crane inspections could freeze projects 03/24/08 Construction industry officials say several high-rise projects could be frozen and hundreds of workers could be laid off if a city moratorium on the assembly of high-rise cranes...
Daily Show actors buy condo at Avery 03/11/08 Samantha Bee and Jason Jones, married Daily Show correspondents, paid $835,000 for a condo in the Avery, a new building at 100 Riverside Boulevard on the Upper West Side, accord...
This month in real estate history 03/03/08 1963: Largest corporate office building opens
When it opened 45 years ago this month, the iconic Pan Am Building, now the MetLife Building, was the largest co...
Rockefeller sells Park Ave. condo 02/21/08 David Rockefeller Jr. sold a Park Avenue condominium for $1.7 million, city property records showed. The buyer, Nicholas Livingston Bruen, also comes from a prominent family. Br...
Brooklyn Councilman wants to restrict deeds access 02/18/08 A Brooklyn City Council member is working on legislation that would require property owners to be notified when their deeds are accessed through online city records, citing a gr...
Financing for affordable housing harder to come by 02/11/08 The credit crunch has left developers of affordable housing in New York City scrambling for more financing and considering smaller projects, as the money behind crucial incentiv...
