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Post-presidential pads: After the White House, what comes next?
Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama recently closed on an $11.75 million, 6,900-square-foot estate in Martha’s...
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Preservationists’ issues with new Obama Presidential Center continues
As Barack and Michelle Obama continue to develop the design of the Obama Presidential Center, they have been running...
National Cheat Sheet: Kushner-founded RE startup Cadre signs with Goldman Sachs, why Newmark’s IPO fails to impress … & more
Kushner-founded real estate startup inks deal with Goldman Sachs Cadre, the real estate startup co-founded by Jared and Joshua Kushner, has struck a deal...
National Cheat Sheet: Inside commercial real estate’s data wars, new leaders named at Elliman and Related … & more
Who will lead commercial real estate’s data revolution? With data increasingly considered a sacred resource in commercial real estate, a battle is raging between...
Are the Obamas buying an apartment at this UES co-op building?
Exit swamp, enter luxury. Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are eyeing an Upper East Side...
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Obama spokesman denies rumors the former president is buying a $27M estate from Caroline Kennedy
Rumors that the Obamas are looking to Martha’s Vineyard for a new vacation home aren’t true, a family spokesman said. The Boston Globe earlier reported that...
Obama’s former townhouse hits the market
President Barack Obama’s bachelor pad in Park Slope is now on the market. The brownstone at 640 2nd Street...
Top regional center chief says Obama’s EB-5 tweaks would decimate program
Just before President Obama left office, the Department of Homeland Security proposed some serious rule changes to the EB-5...
Obama pardons Ian Schrager
UPDATED: Thursday, Jan. 19 at 9:56 a.m.: It’s the end of an era in more ways than one. The outgoing president this week pardoned developer Ian Schrager over a 1980s tax evasion conviction.
Obama administration’s new EB-5 bill could cool use of program by developers
A new proposal from the Obama administration may derail the real estate industry’s EB-5 gravy train. On Thursday, the...