1. Harry Mackowe’s sale of the General Motors building could set records if it sells for between $1,500 and $2,000 a square foot, for a total of $3 billion to $4 billion [Crain’s]
2. How developers build around sites that get in the way of big projects [NYT]
3. What will happen to the New York City housing market if Europeans stop buying? [Post]
4. Grand Javits convention center expansion plans officially dropped [NYT]
5. Hotelier Andre Balazs prepares to take on London [Times of London]
6. Co-ops look to cash in on law allowing increase in commercial rents [NYT]
7. FBI’s New York office has tripled the number of agents working mortgage fraud cases [NYDN]
8. Foreign investors covet big-name buildings as dollar weakens [NYDN]
9. A look at the history of Downtown with author Pete Hamill [NYT]
10. Incentives show it’s a buyers’ market, and also prop up sales prices [Hartford Courant]
11. Upper East Side music box store forced out by rising rent [NYT]
12. Bovis Lend Lease, Trump Soho contractor, was cited for 220 accidents while building the Bloomberg LP headquarters on Lexington Avenue [Post]
13. Two Harlem record stores face closure [NYT]
14. Prices fall in New Jersey and buyers take notice [NYT]
15. Hardware store priced out of spot at 111th street and Broadway found a new home in Yonkers [AMNY]
16. Superfund clean-up sites take years and lack money [NYT]
17. United Nations could lease 600,000 square feet at 380 Madison Avenue [REW]
18. City evacuates 150 people from South Williamsburg building, citing illegal loft conversions and illegal matzo factory [NYT]
19. Red Hook marble company faces eviction after losing option to buy building it spent $250,000 fixing [NYDN]
20. Mahopac, once a summer getaway, is now an less expensive year-round alternative to Westchester [NYT]
21. Chelsea Art Museum struggles to avoid foreclosure after attempt to sell its air rights collapses [Post]
22. How NYU lured away a Columbia law professor with the offer of an apartment [NYT]
23. 2007 was the worst year for REITs in the past 10 years [Journal-News]
24. Subprime lending executive who killed wife left suicide note [Post]