Infamy! Summer ’09, the Hamptons’ Sept. 15
The summer of 2009 may very well become a financial demarcation for the posher parts of the East Read More
Oliver Haydock
Sexy Sportcaster Erin Andrews Calls the Shots at ESPN’s Pre-NFL Draft Party
“If I were a football player, I would be a quarterback,” Erin Andrews, ESPN’s blond bombshell of a sideline reporter, told the Daily Transom on Friday night, April 24. “It’s the most important!”
We would have guessed tight end.
Sporting a blue dress and heels, Playboy's 2009 Sexiest Sportcaster of the Year–fresh Read More
For Manhattan and Hamptons Housing, A Falling Tide Sinks All Boats
Holy cow, the Hamptons are affordable! Well, not really, but they are certainly more affordable this year than last, according to a new Douglas Elliman-Miller Samuel report (PDF). It’s abundantly clear that the collapse of the Wall Street economy is largely to blame here, and the wild spending out in the Hamptons, where Read More
Hamptons for Beginners
Location: The first-quarter Hamptons’ market reports are on the way and should be released this week and next. What will people be talking about?Mr. Hoffman: As recently as a year and half ago, we were talking about the Hamptons’ real estate remaining strong even as the rest of the country was going through the subprime Read More
Brooklyn Housing Has Rough ’09 Start; Condo Sales Off 57 Percent Annually
A new report shows sales and prices dropping steadily in the borough. So long, Read More
A Tale of Four Neighborhoods: Gauging Manhattan’s Apartment Market from Peak to Valley
From boom to bust: We plucked four Manhattan neighborhoods and charted their average Read More
The Mets’ Other Guy
Mike Pelfrey’s 2009 season did not start well. Yesterday, in the first inning of his first start of the season, the 25-year-old pitcher faced nine Reds hitters and gave up four runs, thanks to two walks, two extra-base hits and an untimely error charged to shortstop Jose Reyes. Struggling with his command, Pelfrey danced around Read More
Manhattan Market Reports, Hurt So Good
Jonathan Miller, author of a popular Manhattan housing report for Douglas Elliman, recalls that when he first reported a slowdown in the sales market, way back in 2005, disbelieving brokers called him, griping about the validity of his numbers.
“You could feel the tension in the brokerage community, because it was the first issuance of Read More
Slim Manhattan: 99 Percent Luxury Free
During the giddy days of the housing boom, perhaps no single word quite defined Manhattan’s zooming sales market quite like “luxury.” Everyone was obsessed with it and wanted to buy it; most people paid for it, even if it wasn’t what they got. Those days are definitively over, with last week's first-quarter market reports unmistakably Read More
First-Time Buyers Officially Ascendant in Grim Manhattan Market; Luxury Takes a Holiday
According to several first-quarter Manhattan housing reports released today - including ones from the Corcoran Group and Property Shark (PDF); Prudential Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel; Brown Harris Stevens (PDF) and Halstead Property (PDF); and StreetEasy - condo and co-op sales have fallen precipitously from last year. Corcoran estimates that sales Read More
Licensed to Kilt! Sean Connery Bequeaths His Bare-Leggedness to Ed Westwick
Country singer Kellie Pickler is a bit of a skirt chaser.
“I think it’s sexy,” the platinum blond 22-year-old former American Idol contestant told the Daily Transom. “I think it’s great. Real men wear kilts!”
Ladies, not so much! Ms. Pickler wore a non-plaid Gwen Russell-designed red gown to the “Dressed Read More
White Gloves Off?
Manhattan doormen, ably trained as they are in the art of regulating traffic in and out of the city’s abodes, might want to start battening down the hatches: The economy … is … coming. In these troubled economic times, some residential building workers, who are members of the union 32BJ, are finding their services superfluous Read More
The Last Laughers: Long-suffering Manhattan Renters Jump Confidently Into the Sales Pool
On a recent Wednesday night, Antonio Palumbo, a 27-year-old IT manager at Blue Man Productions, and his 25-year-old fiancé, Joanna Cambareri, a digital sales associate at People.com, were sitting in an Upper East Side Starbucks, talking about their decision to buy an apartment in Manhattan, and explaining why they were looking to buy in a Read More
Yes, Vacancies
New theory: As the stock market continues to go down, down, down, Manhattan’s apartment vacancy rate will go up, up, up. Back in August, before Lehman Brothers imploded, the vacancy rate was 1.39 percent in Manhattan, according to statistics from Citi Habitats. Their February report, available here (PDF), indicates a 2.46 percent vacancy rate, Read More
The Sit-Down: Auction, Auction!
Location: When did you start tracking foreclosure data at PropertyShark?
Mr. Staniford: We started tracking foreclosures since the beginning of the company, which was about six years ago. It really started out at a very low level; we actually had one person going down to the Brooklyn auctions. Once we started Read More
