As market cools, jobs evaporate 12/02/08 As the New York real estate market softens and the economy slows, the real estate job market continues to cool.
Several large firms and developers have announced layoffs in t...
Spinoffs hit the skids 12/02/08 Several financing offshoots of major real estate companies have hit the skids, burdened by soured loans and investments and a limited access to capital as the financial crisis h...
Bracing for a retail bust 12/02/08 This month, in a series of stories, The Real Deal looks at how
retailers in the five boroughs are dealing with a period where sales of
the canned mystery meat Spam are reporte...
Enthusiasm un-Curbed 12/02/08 If there's a new condo planned somewhere in Manhattan, chances are Curbed.com has been tracking its progress. But the site — a blog focused on New York City real estate an...
Law firms beat a retreat 12/01/08 With bankruptcies on the rise and litigation expected to spike, it would seem that the legal services industry is again well positioned to survive, or even benefit, from the dow...
Sloan-Kettering bails on Sutton tower buy, loses $5M deposit 11/18/08 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center backed out of a deal to purchase a 25-story Sutton Place apartment building for $57 million, losing its $5.7 million deposit, a source wit...
High-end U.S. markets show cracks in the foundation 11/07/08 From the November issue: 90210. 06831. 75201. This month, The
Real Deal looks at the nation's most exclusive zip codes --
neighborhoods filled with spacious beachside mansions...
Sun shines on exclusive Miami area 11/03/08 Twenty years ago, South Beach was a district of ramshackle historic buildings occupied by elderly retirees, drug dealers and poor immigrants. Billions of dollars worth of revita...
High-end U.S. markets show cracks in the foundation 11/03/08 This month, The Real Deal looks at the nation's most exclusive zip codes to see how high-end markets besides Manhattan are faring. While these areas are more insulated than thei...
Across the pond in London, gravity takes hold 11/03/08 The laws of gravity affecting New York's once-soaring real estate market are holding true across the Atlantic, too. Commercial and residential markets that climbed for years in ...
Manhattan House faces lending woes 10/31/08 The record $1.1 billion Manhattan House conversion on the Upper East
Side has run into resistance from several major commercial banks that
have either refused to finance condo...
Broadway Partners races to unload its trophy towers 10/03/08 With hundreds of millions of dollars in short-term debt coming due
in January, Lawlor's private equity firm has emerged as the latest
poster child for overleveraged post-boom ...
Making sense of Wall Street's crisis 10/03/08 The outlook for New York City real estate is gloomy as the Wall Street
fallout continues. For one, the Wall Street bonuses that helped raise
Manhattan apartment prices in rece...
Repairing real estate's image 10/03/08 For years, as home prices rose, the enthusiasm of many brokers for high prices came across as shrewd. But now that the market is soft, would-be homebuyers are beginn...
Wall Street woes expected to increase available space 10/02/08 Layoffs from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill
Lynch to Bank of America and the government takeover of American
International Group should create another ...
Who will be left standing among investment banks? 09/01/08 The jury is still out on how bad the fallout will be for investment banks that barrelled headlong into the mortgage markets — though some are faring better than others.
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New Ventures 08/29/08 Halstead joins firms on Atlantic Avenue
Halstead Property is opening its third office in Brooklyn, on Atlantic Avenue's "Antique Row" in Boerum Hill. The firm's new storefront ...
Brokering in good Faith 08/01/08 Most real estate brokers don't show up at cocktail parties with a publicist in tow.
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