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Preservationists’ issues with new Obama Presidential Center continues

January 13, 2018 05:39PM

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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

by James Klatell | January 12, 2018 08:00AM

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

by James Klatell | December 07, 2017 05:30PM

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?

October 02, 2017 12:25PM

Exit swamp, enter luxury. Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are eyeing an Upper East Side...

Obama spokesman denies rumors the former president is buying a $27M estate from Caroline Kennedy

by Business Insider | September 02, 2017 09:34AM

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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...

The first rendering of the Obama Presidential Library is here

May 14, 2017 03:45PM

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Last year, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBSA) won the competition to design the Obama Presidential Library. Now, we...

Obama’s former townhouse hits the market

by E.B. Solomont | April 27, 2017 01:20PM

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

by Will Parker | February 14, 2017 05:02PM

Just before President Obama left office, the Department of Homeland Security proposed some serious rule changes to the EB-5...

Obama pardons Ian Schrager

January 18, 2017 09:30AM

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

by Katherine Clarke | January 12, 2017 05:05PM

A new proposal from the Obama administration may derail the real estate industry’s EB-5 gravy train. On Thursday, the...