A look at folding projects in Williamsburg 07/16/09 According to new figures from the city's Department of Buildings, Williamsburg has 18 stalled construction sites, more than any other neighborhood in the city. On this week's We...
Celebrities keep swapping real estate 06/24/09 In the last few weeks, comedian Joan Rivers put her East Side townhouse up for sale with an asking price of $25 million, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin reportedly toured the Apthorp ...
Benepe takes on Benepe 06/11/09
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe oversees nearly 30,000 acres of prime
real estate in the city and is getting ready to announce who his agency
has picked as the new operator...
Defying the market, launching commercial divisions 05/27/09 Several residential firms in the city have recently launched commercial real estate divisions. Given how poorly commercial leasing and sales have done in the city this year, som...
Cheapest apartments see more action 05/11/09 Lavish and expensive apartments always get a lot of attention -- even in a downturn. But on this week's Webcast, The Real Deal's Jen Benepe talks to brokers at two of the cheape...
Recession bumps back Chang's retirement 05/04/09 The CEO of the McSam Hotel Group, Sam Chang, says his loose plans to retire at age 50 next year will have to be bumped back because of the recession. In this week's Webcast, the...
Hamptons takes another hit 04/27/09 The already-declining real estate market on the East End of Long Island took another major hit in the first quarter of 2009 as both sales volume and median prices dropped sharpl...
West Side Highway projects finish up 04/13/09 When the economy was on fire, high-end towers started going up on the
West Side Highway. Now the latest wave of buildings is nearing completion. On
this week's Webcast, The Re...
Greenwich sales down as market suffers 04/06/09 The exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Conn., is known as a magnet for CEOs, Wall Streeters and hedge funders. As a result, when the financial market ground to a halt last Septembe...
Brooklyn Heights sees softening 03/30/09 Brooklyn Heights is one of the most established and wealthiest sections of the borough. But while the area is faring better than most other Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is still s...
Housing reform lobbying intensifies in Albany 03/23/09 The New York City real estate industry was rocked earlier this month by a court order that could require the owners of Stuyvesant Town to give back $200 million in rent to tenan...
Boards face owners who cannot pay 03/09/09 New York City's co-op and condo boards are starting to hurt as more of their residents get hit by the recession. In some cases, boards are being approached by owners looking to ...
Brokerage workforce shrinks 03/02/09 After losing 10 percent of its sales agents last year, the city's brokerage workforce is on pace to shed even more people this year as fewer people get licensed and more people ...
Office landlords join city stimulus 02/23/09 The Bloomberg administration is teaming up with the commercial real
estate sector in a measure to boost the shaken economy by keeping
entrepreneurs, including those who were l...
Sellers switch brokers as market slows 02/09/09 Brokers have yet another reason to be frustrated. On top of dealing
with the glacial pace of sales, they are now increasingly faced with
sellers switching to a new broker with...
