Yes to conversions, no to rent regulation: LI biz group unveils real estate agenda
Restore full deductions of state and local taxes. Ease commercial-to-residential conversions. Stop proposed expansions of rent control and prevailing...
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Erik Engquist
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Erik joined The Real Deal as senior managing editor in 2019 after 14 years at Crain's New York Business. Prior to that he wrote a weekly political column for Courier-Life Publications for which he was named "best political columnist" in New York by the Village Voice. From 1996 until 2000 he reported for daily newspapers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, covering education, development and municipal government. A graduate of Yale University, Erik has won two National Headliner Awards and was the lead writer for two series that won the New Jersey Press Association's top public service award in consecutive years. He and his wife have twin sons, born in 2000.
National
President Joe Biden’s real estate checklist
With one exception, real estate is not in Joe Biden’s immediate agenda. But within the next few months, the...
New York
The Closing: Ray McGuire
Ray McGuire’s path from “the streets to the suites” is made-for-movie stuff. Growing up poor and fatherless in Dayton, Ohio, he worked his way into the elite boarding school Hotchkiss, then Harvard for undergraduate,...
New York
This election isn’t over: Real estate hanging on NY vote count
“The voters have spoken,” Republican Mike Martucci said, declaring victory in one of the New York state Senate races...
National
Real estate pros say Trump better for market than Biden: survey
Asked if Donald Trump or Joe Biden would be a better president for real estate, many industry professionals surveyed...
National Archive Issue
Eight stats tell the tale of Adam Neumann’s rise, fall, and return
Adam Neumann is back. In his first venture since leaving WeWork last year, the eccentric and brash Israeli entrepreneur...
National
Trump tests positive for coronavirus
President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday morning. “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19,” he wrote. “We will begin our...
MTA crisis could be catastrophic for New York real estate
As goes New York’s transit system, so goes its real estate. And the system is on the brink of...
New York Issue
Why do police keep stopping Hakeem Jeffries?
It took Hakeem Jeffries three tries just to win one of 150 seats in the New York Assembly. Now...
New York
Cuomo puts Manhattan, Hamptons on notice for re-closure
Careless millennials in Manhattan and reckless rich folks in the Hamptons might ruin reopening for everyone, Gov. Andrew Cuomo...