'French Plan' ahead of its time 05/29/09 Recession aside, New York City developers in today's day and age are almost guaranteed community opposition to any grandiose projects they propose.
But back in 1925, Tudor Ci...
DeNiro's downfall 05/29/09 The West Village office of the now-defunct JC DeNiro & Associates
was a prime location for luring wealthy passers-by to browse framed
professional photos of $2 million con...
MLBKaye bucks the trend, begins aggressive expansion 05/28/09 Mid-sized Manhattan-based brokerage firm MLBKaye International Realty
is taking a gamble on new storefront offices in the midst of a
downturn. The family-owned company, which ...
Q & A with Bellmarc Realty's Neil Binder 05/28/09 Neil Binder, co-founder of Bellmarc Realty and author of four real estate books, sat down with The Real Deal to
talk about the market, cutting costs at the firm to survive the
...
10,000 rooms on ice 05/02/09 Financing trouble is drastically eliminating the number of hotels under construction in New York City, stalling about 10,000 planned rooms in the pipeline -- or canceling them a...
Scoring an upset 05/02/09 In a surprise upset, Corcoran's Carrie Chiang beat out Prudential Douglas Elliman super broker Dolly Lenz in The Real Deal's first top Manhattan agent survey, based on total dol...
Edging out East End rivals 05/01/09 The sprawling sandy beaches, glitzy nightclubs and manicured green
lawns of the Hamptons may make a relaxing getaway for the rich and
famous, but it's become a fiercely contes...
CBRE tops 2008 NYC investment sales list 05/01/09 Source: CoStar Group
Full service commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis was the top
investment sales brokerage in 2008 by dollar volume in New York City, according to d...
Design firms launch hospitality groups 04/17/09 Design firms Yoo and
Cetra/Ruddy announced they are launching hospitality groups this week.
Yoo's decision to focus on the hotel and resort market came after
winning an archi...
City Dwellers calls it quits 04/13/09 Rental brokerage New York City Dwellers has now officially ceased operations and is being sold, its owner said. George Goshadze, the co-founder of NYC Dwellers, said the firm ha...
Can't sell? Trade places 03/31/09 A man walked into the lavish sales office of a new 20-story Manhattan condo recently and, to the surprise of the staff, whipped out photographs of his newly built home in Connec...
New ventures 03/31/09 Halstead ventures into New Jersey
While many New York City real estate firms are closing offices to save money on overhead, others are taking advantage of cheap rents to expand...
Firms upping fees for brokers 03/31/09 As real estate prices fall and the pool of once-thriving Wall Street buyers dries up, brokerages are re-examining their business models — and, in some cases, upping fees t...
Web hits: The month in review 03/31/09 Corcoran shrinks space at Madison Avenue HQ
The Corcoran Group is downsizing its corporate headquarters at 660 Madison Avenue. The brokerage behemoth occupies the entire 11th f...
Commercial firms shrink 03/09/09 Amid the turmoil of the declining investment sales market, several
prominent brokers at mid-sized firms have left their positions and others have changed
companies in search o...
Aptsandlofts.com cuts costs by consolidating 03/03/09
David Maundrell, president of Aptsandlofts.com, moved his company to 482 Driggs Avenue
Brooklyn sales and rental brokerage aptsandlofts.com has joined the ranks of
...
Q & A with Buildings Department Commissioner Robert LiMandri 03/02/09
Robert LiMandri stepped in to helm New York City's Department of Buildings last April at a time of disarray and crisis. Weeks before, seven people were killed when a crane fe...
A 'rock star' aura fades for development execs 03/02/09 Otherwise known as the acquisitions executives for large real estate
development companies in New York, they were the ones snapping up
properties like baubles during the real ...
