We stopped by HGTV's Wine and Design party last night and chatted with some of their real estate experts, who were eager to offer advice and predictions about the market.

Trends they've noticed? Foreign investors buying property and people becoming more optimistic about the rebound.

And, of course, the common refrain was: "New York is New York,"—people will always want to buy here. Who knew?

Michael Aubrey, a realtor on Real Estate Intervention, on the rental market:

Underwriting standards are tenuous so [people] can't get loans, so they're going to rent. I think rentals will rise by 40 percent in the next three years in metro markets as a whole. ... Leases are going to jump.

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The novelist and Columbia MFA teacher Sam Lipsyte has nabbed a deal to develop a show for HBO, says The Hollywood Reporter.

People City, THR writes, "centers on a 25-year-old man hired by an eccentric New York couple to be their child's caretaker." As an author at HBO, Mr. Lipsyte joins Michael Chabon, Read More

HBO plans to turn Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer-prize winning book A Visit From the Goon Squad into a television series.

Ms. Egan joins Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, Sloane Crosley and Malcolm Gladwell as an author with a series in the works, but since the book is essentially comprised of interlocking short stories, it's a somewhat unconventional choice Read More

Bill Moyers has received preliminary approval for a new PBS series tentatively called "Something Different with Bill Moyers," reports Decoder. 

In the year since Mr. Moyers announced his retirement, the House voted to defund National Public Radio, leading some to believe PBS was one sting video away from the chopping block. But there are a Read More

The Awl used all three of its proprietary sites today to promote the story of Teddy Wayne, a novelist and freelance writer who claims the producers of CSI: NY stole the idea for an episode from a satirical article he wrote for Radar Online. (This transpired in Radar's earlier iteration as Maer Roshan's buzzy Read More