From the March issue:  In 1626, Dutch merchant Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan for the equivalent of $24. Today, an investor would...

Land sales in Manhattan ground to a halt last year with just under $3 billion worth of transactions in 2016, down 74 percent from...

The dirt on dirt: Mark Twain’s memo must have got lost in the mail. “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” isn’t a mantra...

A group of economists think they know what all the land in Manhattan is worth: $1.4 trillion.

When state lawmakers in June agreed to an overhaul of the 421a tax abatement program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the revisions the “best rent...

For New Yorkers, it’s hardly news: land prices are rising. A plot of land in New York State averaged less than $3,000 in cost back 1975....

With Long Island City land prices blowing up and the neighborhood’s demographics shifting to an older, more monied crowd, developers are increasingly considering condo...

The New York City inventory squeeze is extending about six feet under. Like all other real estate in New York, the price of burial...

 Land remains a hot investment, and America’s wealthiest individuals are snapping up property at breakneck speed.

Despite the unquenchable demand for rental units in Manhattan, stratospheric land prices are blocking the development pipeline for multifamily projects, industry experts say.

Developers are poised to cash in on a citywide grab for space to house preschool programs that Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing the...

From the December issue: Call it New York City’s new land rush. In the last year, prices for land and developable sites in the city...

Developers surveying a recent spate of land sales at sky-high prices are concerned that the market has overheated, and a repeat of the 2008...

New York City developers made a madcap dash to secure property sites in 2012, and with prices continually inching upwards, had little option but...

Companies such as BlackRock, Angelo Gordon & Co and Starwood Capital are beginning to sell off shovel-ready development sites they bought on the cheap...

From the September issue: Industry analysts continue to debate whether the New York City real estate market has recovered, but there’s no question that...

Residential rentals have proven to be the least volatile among all property asset classes in the wake of the recession, real estate pros agreed...