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A couple interesting sales of large condos in historic brownstones this week.1. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $4,500,00042 Garden Place GMAP (left)Four-story, two-family, 3,420-sf brownstone in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. StreetEasy shows the pricing history was thus: Listed for $4,950,000 in September;
Atlantic Yards towers B1 (formerly Miss Brooklyn) and B2 weren't the only ones to get makeovers in yesterday's Daily News piece. The arena has been altered as well, and now it's blue! Per a press release from developer Forest City
The castle-like trio of buildings that was saved from imminent peril and combined in a heroic conversion by the Pratt Area Community Council is almost ready for occupancy. As the photo shows, the building is good to go. PACC received
Now that the weather's finally getting to the point where we can actually sit outside, we're feeling more in the mood to talk about gardens. So for the next few weeks (or as long as the submissions come in), we'd
There's one new post on the Flea Blog:New Food Vendors Starting This Sunday [Flea Blog]Here are some of the topics posted on The Forum today:Need a Recommendation for a Cabinet MakerSomeone to Make a Custom-Designed Security Gate?Advice on Mortgage for
Growing demand is based on a stable economic situation. As local developers gain experience and international developers step in, more professional office projects will appear meeting growing demands of the market...
This is one of the most—if not the most—valuable townhouses we've seen fall into the foreclosure hole in this market cycle. The four-story, two-family house has a lien of $990,000 on it and, depending on the condition of the interiors
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we will once again ask the rhetorical questions, Why in the world would any seller use a real estate brokerage firm that didn't have a good website? While on the Fort
What's been happening at 421 Kent Avenue since we checked in back in January? Not a whole heck of a lot, it appears. The full-block site controlled by Isaac Hager in South Williamsburg doesn't have any Stop Work Orders hanging
The price of one lower-floor two-bedroom at the Oro was just reduced from $640,000 to $599,000. The 933-square-foot pad, which, according to our calculations, must be one of the lower units with the big, curved corner windows, has two equally
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said accelerating rates of foreclosures and delinquencies can have a significant impact on the economy and called for more to be done in order to prevent them.
Deteriorating conditions in the U.S. housing market contributed to a larger-than-expected first quarterly loss from U.S. mortgage giant FNMA ( Fannie Mae ) on Tuesday morning, which reported a loss per share of $2.57 or net losses of $2.2 billion.
Lending standards at U.S. banks are increasingly stringent, according to the Federal Reserve's April 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices .
In the past two years the Ukrainian warehouse storage market has seen huge growth in the number of high-quality facilities on offer, but the sector is still far from capacity. The major stumbling block to further exponential growth now appears
Billionaire Sam Zell, known for his real estate and media investments, went on record as saying that Brazil is his choice for new investment. At the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Zell said that Brazil will be the
Wealthy Russian overseas property investors have been attracted to the Australian Gold Coast and are now the biggest spenders of Australian Gold Coast property. The average investment is a hefty USD$ 550,000 according to research undertaken by property agency DTZ.The
