1. Countrywide, nation’s biggest mortgage lender, agrees to pay $67.5 million to settle a civil fraud case [NYT]
2. State says bedbug disclosure law applies to co-ops and condos, too [Brick Underground]
3. Pershing Square Capital Management head Bill Ackman invests in General Growth spinoff firm [Crain’s]
4. Analyzing the BofA mortgage settlement fiasco [The Nation]
5. London-based Vision Capital signs lease at 681 Fifth Avenue [Crain’s]
6. T.J. Maxx to open on the East Side Oct. 24 [Crain’s]
7. Park Slope residents support expansion of historic district [Brownstoner]
8. NYU’s proposed fourth tower on Bleecker Street would be Village’s tallest [Villager]
9. Whitney Musuem of American Art sells Upper East Side brownstones [NYT]
10. Newark arts center ramps up its real estate industry involvement [NYT]
11. A look at restaurant Tavern on the Green’s new mobile food trucks, as the restaurant’s new visitors center becomes a permanent fixture [AWITP] and [Crain’s]
12. How ‘starchitecture’ became a phenomenon [AMNY]