Bob Vila

Back in 2002, when the bearded home-renovations guru Bob Vila listed his Tribeca loft (a floor beneath Mariah Carey’s place) for $5,250,000, The Observer teased him for demanding more than $1.8 million over what he had paid two years earlier.

Mr. Vila, who spent the 80’s hosting the PBS show This Old House, finally sold the place in 2004 for $3.725 million, barely making a profit—and maybe losing a bit, depending on how much renovations cost.  read more »

The days when the New York Observer's Joe Hagan owned the Gore-TV story are past, sadly, and so are all illusions that the former Vice President is going to create a liberal version of Fox. It's more, it seems, that he wants to be a liberal Bob Vila.

That's what we gather from this email to the Brownstoner, a Brooklyn real estate blog:  read more »

"I am producing a piece for Al Gore's new cable channel Current TV on the present real estate boom and the consequences for folks 18- 34. I'm looking to profile a young couple looking to buy their first home in Brooklyn...."

Viewers who tuned in to Bob Vila's last installment of Home Again on CBS saw the master do-it-yourse  read more »