Midtown-Downtown gap narrows with big leases 10/18/07 Several big deals sealed in Lower Manhattan in 2005 are shrinking the chasm between the Downtown and Midtown leasing markets as commercial rents prepare to climb throughout Manh...
Home equity, away from home 10/18/07 Growing numbers of New York area first-time home buyers are looking further afield in their quest to build up home equity, sometimes staying on as urban renters while playing su...
Cashing out in Brooklyn, Buying in Manhattan 10/18/07 The rapid ascent of property values in Brooklyn may be enabling residents to cash out and use their profits for a place in one of Manhattan's start-up neighborhoods. Ted Kara...
Rising Rentals Squeeze Sales 10/17/07 An unexpected surge in rentals in February has brokers wondering why sales haven't kept pace, and the principal suspects are a lack of sales inventory, astronomical prices and g...
Irish find pot of gold in NYC 10/17/07 Forget about Leprechauns. Irish investors are finding their pot of gold on new shores these days. As the country's economy booms and the euro remains strong, Irish instituti...
Breaking into New Development 10/17/07 Increasing numbers of residential real estate agents are moving into the property development end of the business, which is an unexpected offshoot of a white-hot real estate mar...
Small buildings spring up on South Slope 10/17/07 As pioneering New Yorkers venture further out on subway lines seeking affordable accommodations, they are discovering neighborhoods like Brooklyn s South Park Slope, which is ex...
Brokerage offices play game of musical chairs 10/17/07 Manhattan s top real estate companies are playing musical chairs along the West Side, changing locations and nudging each other for market share. Corcoran, Elliman and Brown ...
Illegal Conversions: broker gray area 10/17/07 New York City s loft spaces may have been born of artistic necessity, but they ve evolved into coveted living quarters in what are now top-dollar Manhattan neighborhoods like So...
Will building buyers bust? 10/17/07 All over Manhattan and this country s urban centers, records are being set for purchases of commercial and residential properties. A handf...
Seaport plan ready to set sales 10/17/07 South Street Seaport, a district built around a collection of weathered 18th-century buildings and tucked among Manhattan's skyscrapers, saw its best days decades ago, but devel...
Architects in Name Only? 10/17/07 Developers love the cachet and cash that a famous architect's name brings to new construction in New York, but a look at some recent projects shows there's sometimes a s...
Eyes scan rezoned West Side 10/17/07 The largest rezoning in recent city history has this town's real estate players limbering up for a race to some of the last developable plots on Manhattan's far West Side. ...
CBRE suits cast a long shadow 10/17/07 Recently filed lawsuits by CB Richard Ellis against former employees have other commercial real estate brokerages sitting up and taking notice, as the company gets tough ab...
Where Brooklyn Beats Manhattan 10/17/07 A history of the rivalry between shining, moneyed Manhattan and scrappy, working-class Brooklyn is peppered with one-sided results through the last century: Manhattan got s...
