Permits cause Brooklyn new development delays 10/17/07 Developers trying to sustain and ride the Brooklyn boom say slowdowns in paperwork may hobble growth in the borough. Delays by the Department of Buildings have stretche...
Condo conversion boom missing NYC 10/17/07 Tenants in thousands of apartment buildings nationwide are converting to condominium ownership arrangements, but the New York market lags far behind the rest of the country....
Brooklyn rises in developers' eyes 10/16/07 The pace of luxury development in Brooklyn is picking up as builders expand on the borough's high-end potential, ticking off a slew of projects that started with David Walentas'...
Broker-investors for walk-ups few in number 10/16/07 Walk-up apartments make up 25 to 30 percent of the city's residential housing stock, and new investors are trying to cash in on the tricky, but potentially lucrative segment of ...
Brooklyn tops in walk-ups 10/16/07 If Manhattan is the borough of concrete canyons, Brooklyn is the borough of stoops and walk-ups. Brooklyn dominates all other boroughs with 43 percent of all walk-up buildings i...
Walk-ups Step Up 10/16/07 Prices shoot up, even as rents decline; still a good buy
Traulsen fridges, and other top apartment amenities 10/15/07 The right package of amenities in a new development can make the difference between how quickly a property is sold and for how much. In the past five years, amenities have t...
Top Retail Brokers 10/15/07 Here's a look at retail industry leaders in New York and what they've been up to lately: Newmark New Spectrum For 15 years, New Spectrum specialized as a thriving bouti...
Reigning Retail Firms 10/15/07 From small boutiques to national powerhouses, who brings the top shops to NY
Building a New Manhattan 10/12/07 A look at new residential construction and the next up-and-coming neighborhoods
Buyers Flexing their ARMs 10/12/07 With mortgage rates heading up, apartment buyers in Manhattan are changing the way they are borrowing to keep costs down. Rising rates have changed the mix of loans now bein...
Top Office Leasing Brokers 10/12/07 Michael and Paul Ippolito Executive VPs and Principals, Newmark & Co. --Although the Ippolito bro...
For Firms Large and Small, Ad Costs Rising 10/11/07 Regardless of size and market share, New York real estate firms list advertising as the largest component of their operating expenses, and costs are rising. Barry Dulany, co-...
Small Firms Face Big Hurdles 10/11/07 Running a small residential real estate company in Manhattan was always a tough proposition, but increasing consolidation has added to the challenge. In the current market, c...
Sen. Schumer at Odds with Liberty Bond Fix 10/09/07 A proposal to extend Liberty Bonds past 2004 could be realized by the first half of this year. But the issue of allocating more of that money to residential development in Lower...
Will Downtown Stay Strong After Grants? 10/09/07 The Lower Manhattan residential real estate market today is a very different reality than one might have imagined soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, when worries about personal se...
Franchises Look To New York 10/09/07 What s certain is that these firms are gunning for the big prize the most lucrative real estate market in the country the citadel of Manhattan. The CEO of HomeSer...
