Home stager preps love nests 07/20/07 From the July issue: In addition to helping hopeless sellers, home stager Ilaria Barion is also helping hopeless singles. Barion, who makes properties on the market more appeali...
On your mark, get set, go make connections 07/18/07 From the July issue: In the fast-paced Manhattan real estate market, Laurence Ross is taking out his stopwatch. In late June, the senior executive broker at Besen & Associat...
135th Street's restaurant row 07/12/07 From the July issue: Before the end of the summer, a batch of eateries in West Harlem plan to open, a culinary flowering that may induce foodies to trek north. Three new restaur...
A 60-story condo by any other name... 07/10/07 From the July issue: The Madison Park skyline is getting a bit more crowded as One Madison Park, a 60-story tower at 23 East 22nd Street, rises less than a block away from the i...
Office leasing activity down, rents up 07/10/07 Manhattan office rents continued to rise in the second quarter, though leasing volume dropped off from the highs seen in 2006. Leasing activity for all of Manhattan fell 5.4 pe...
Rise in sales signals market strength 07/03/07 The high sales volume in Manhattan's spring season is a sure sign that New York City's residential market continues to post strong results. There were 3,939 sales in the second ...
Shvoing off Battery Park views 06/07/07 From the June issue: As the majority of apartments in the city have blocked views, new development marketer Michael Shvo claims the harbor views from almost every unit in his la...
Hawaiian Tropic hot for brokers 06/04/07 From the June issue: Morgan Stanley bankers may be banned from taking business lunches at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square, but real estate players are still reserving t...
Road warriors on two wheels 05/23/07 From the May issue: This spring, instead of shuttling to listings in limousines, a couple of brokers who sell some of the priciest properties in Manhattan are riding around town...
Open House gives rock a good name? 05/07/07 From the May issue: Chances are there'll be more brokers at a typical show by Open House, a rock group consisting of brokers, than at an actual Manhattan open house. The band wa...
Queens' sales market stays stable 04/18/07 Residential markets in Queens and Long Island remained stable during the first three months of 2007, according to a new report by appraisal firm Miller Samuel. Average home pric...
Condo markets to same-sex couples 04/13/07 From the April issue: Marketing for condo buildings is becoming explicitly geared toward buyers' sexual orientation. Targeting the same-sex market is the luxury condo developmen...
C & W: record-setting office market 04/10/07 Manhattan's residential sales market may be booming, but the borough's commercial market is setting records, according to a report from Cushman & Wakefield. Manhattan's ave...
The condo as blank canvas 04/04/07 From the April issue: Borrowing art-world cachet from nearby West Chelsea, the latest sales strategy from Shvo Marketing uses gallery space and all-white units to promote its ne...
Residential market in bloom 04/03/07 Manhattan's residential market was extremely strong in the first three months of the year, according to a report released by appraisal firm Miller Samuel. The report found there...
Knitting Factory on the block 04/02/07 The building that houses the Knitting Factory music venue, 74 Leonard Street, is up for sale. Nearly a third of the 27,000-square-foot building is taken up by the venue, which h...
Ex-Corcoran agents' new BHS group 03/20/07 Less than eight days after their move to Brown Harris Stevens, four former Corcoran brokers have announced the launch of their new partnership. The newly formed partnership incl...
Starck to dress up drab East 23rd 03/02/07 From the March issue: A building from ultra-chic designer Philippe Starck is coming to a less-than-chic part of East 23rd Street in Manhattan, The Real Deal has learned. Shvo Ma...
UES restaurant gets Justified 02/28/07 Details are emerging about Justin Timberlake's quest to bring collard greens to the Upper East Side. The Grammy-award winning pop artist - originally from Memphis, Tennessee - r...
Hotel-condo debate hinges on zoning 02/28/07 From the February issue: For now, hotel-condos are not permitted in manufacturing zones in Manhattan, where only traditional hotels may rise and residential projects are not all...
