Worth the walk? … and more

1. Top-floor apartments in walk-ups offer good deals, lots of
light and great views [NYT]
2. A landlord transforms three buildings in Washington Heights
into what he calls living galleries [NYT]
3. An apartment in Park Slope gets auctioned off from the stoop [NYT]
4. As people fall behind on their bills for storage space,
their property gets sold off [NYT]
5. A report in Westchester
suggests using land in office parks for moderate-cost housing [NYT]
6. Playing the “What’s my home worth?” game is always
fun [NYT]
7. New suburban-style homes are sprouting in Rossville [NYT]
8. More than two dozen churches and synagogues in Manhattan and Brooklyn
have been redeveloped since the 1980s. [NYT]
9. A new adjustable-rate mortgage allows borrowers to refinance
for a flat fee [NYT]
10. Owners of co-ops and condos trim prices to get stalled homes
moving [NYT]
11. New Jersey’s
housing market has further to fall. [NYT]
12. Rental season is already busy in the Hamptons [Post]
13. A new Upper East Side zip
code is the city’s richest [Post]
14. A con-man in East New York stole his church and sold it to a developer [NYDN]
15. Mill Basin,
on the outer banks of the South Brooklyn
shore, is full of fancy homes [NYDN]
16. New luxury buildings in Jersey City and Hoboken are luring buyers away from FiDi and Brooklyn [Post]
17. Six secrets of using the Web to buy homes [US News]