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Loan wolves: Bankers are stalking developers as debts come due

By C.J. Hughes | June 25, 2020 05:00PM

It was one of many signs last year that a growing number of New York City condo developers are...

Loan wolves: Bankers are stalking developers as debts come due

Tri-State

Real estate activity in suburbs catches second wind in Covid era

By C.J. Hughes | April 28, 2020 07:00AM

While the city’s commercial properties slumber through the coronavirus pandemic (much to their owners’ misfortune), chunks of the suburbs...

Real estate activity in suburbs catches second wind in Covid era

Tri-State Issue

Airbnb’s toughest battles with towns in the tri-state region

By C.J. Hughes | March 12, 2020 08:00AM

Shelter Island was caught in a crosscurrent. In 2019, a couple of years after local officials slapped limits on...

Airbnb’s toughest battles with towns in the tri-state region

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Sizing up Cuomo’s Penn Station plan by the numbers

By C.J. Hughes | February 24, 2020 03:00PM

The latest proposal to expand Penn Station — given new urgency by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month — includes...

Sizing up Cuomo’s Penn Station plan by the numbers

Tri-State Issue

Jet-setting to follow the money

By C.J. Hughes | December 06, 2019 11:45AM

When the yachts go south and it becomes less of a feat to get a reservation at the East Hampton Grill or other local haunts, the residential brokers in the Hamptons have to come...

Jet-setting to follow the money

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Is NYC’s townhouse market in trouble?

By C.J. Hughes | November 25, 2019 07:30AM

As a percentage of the city’s housing stock, townhouses aren’t just small, they’re minuscule. But they’ve attracted outsized attention in recent months. Most notably, this summer, a 48-foot-wide limestone mansion on East 67th Street...

Is NYC’s townhouse market in trouble?

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Is NYC’s townhouse market in trouble?

By C.J. Hughes | November 14, 2019 07:30AM

As a percentage of the city’s housing stock, townhouses aren’t just small, they’re minuscule. But they’ve attracted outsized attention in recent months. Most notably, this summer, a 48-foot-wide limestone mansion on East 67th Street...

Is NYC’s townhouse market in trouble?