Which neighborhoods will take biggest knock? 10/04/08 Daniel Baum,
chief executive officer of the Real Estate Group New York, a brokerage,
said the Financial District, which has a number of new condo and
high-end rental projects...
Mortgage servicers sucking loans dry? 09/16/08 From the September issue: With housing prices declining in neighborhoods hard hit by the foreclosure crisis, the question on many real estate minds is: Why are banks and investo...
Mortgage servicers sucking loans dry? 09/01/08 With housing prices declining in neighborhoods hard hit by the foreclosure crisis, the question on many real estate minds is: Why are banks and investor-controlled trusts not do...
Staving off commercial foreclosure 07/01/08 This time, the mortgage banking industry is not taking any chances.
Stung by the subprime mortgage crisis, the tightening credit market,
Wa...
For banks, foreclosed homes pile up 06/09/08 From the June issue: Bedford-Stuyvesant is a neighborhood being
pulled in two directions: Burned-out houses sit next to ne...
For banks, foreclosed homes pile up 06/02/08 In the last year, banks and investors have started building up large
inventories of REOs, largely because they are having trouble unloading
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John Jacob Astor: The making of a hardnosed speculator 06/02/08 Astor's appetite for New York real estate appears to have had no
limits. On his deathbed in 1848, he is said to have exclaimed, "Could I
begin life again, knowing what I now k...
Taking one-stop shops to court 06/02/08 Go to chart: Foreclosure Patterns - 2007Struggling homeowners in low-income New York neighborhoods with high mortgage default rates say they don't have far to look for the sourc...
Inside the home of Barbara Fox 05/22/08 From the May issue: The doormen are dressed in liveried dark
gray suits, and the elevator walls consist of antique wooden panels.
However, ...
No bailout for Brownsville 05/12/08 From the May issue: JPMorgan Chase's federally backed buyout of
Bear Stearns in March may have averted a meltdown on Wall Street. But
at th...
No bailout for Brownsville 04/30/08 JPMorgan Chase's federally backed buyout of Bear Stearns in March
may have averted a meltdown on Wall Street. But at the other end of the
subprime mortgage crisis are neighbor...
Inside the home of Karl Fischer 04/19/08 From the April issue: You might expect Karl Fischer, a Canadian
architect who designs upscale residential buildings in trendy New York
City...
Lewis Rudin: Hanging on in jittery times 04/10/08 From the April issue: Given the bleak economic outlook and
uncertain times for New York City real estate, the late developer Lewis
Rudin's ...
Lewis Rudin: Hanging on in jittery times 03/31/08 Given the bleak economic outlook and uncertain times for New York
City real estate, the late developer Lewis Rudin's steadfast belief in
hanging on to all his holdings may ser...
Inside the home of Karl Fischer 03/31/08 You might expect Karl Fischer, a Canadian architect who designs upscale residential buildings in trendy New York City neighborhoods such as Chelsea and Williamsburg, to live in ...
Tee time in Throgs Neck? 03/26/08 From the March issue: The eastern section of Ferry Point Park,
located at a bend of the East River next to the Bronx-Whitestone
Bridge, is ...
Tee time in Throgs Neck? 03/03/08 The eastern section of Ferry Point Park, located at a bend of the East River next to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, is one of the bleakest sites in New York City.
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Model making: Thinking big with a doll's eye view 02/05/08 If the six-inch-tall Lilliputians from "Gulliver's Travels" suddenly appeared in New York City, they would have no trouble finding a place to stay.
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