Condos
After a tough winter, spring brings courting season in life and real estate. In Harlem, sellers have been slashing prices on newly renovated condos by hundreds of thousands, but buyers are still playing hard to... READ MORE»
The Fairchild, a 21-unit condo development at 55 Vestry Street, has ushered its fair share of boldface names through its north Tribeca doors—James Gandolfini is an investor, and, according to the New York Post, casual open-house hunters have included mega-couples such as Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren and Brazilian bombshell Adriana Lima and NBA beau Marko... READ MORE»
On Friday, just after Bank of America announced a billion-dollar loss in the third quarter, a deed in city records showed that the massive firm had sold off its corporate apartment in the Time Warner Center for $7.2 million.... READ MORE»
Neil Simon has another apartment to write in. He and his fifth wife, Elaine, have paid $1,225,000 for a two-bedroom apartment at their building, the Ritz Tower on Park Avenue. Broker Jaar-mel Sloane, whose listing says the "exquisite" co-op is in "mint condition," would not... READ MORE»
Just over one year ago, Westchester's very own corrugated-cardboard magnate, Dennis Mehiel, put his 10,350-square-foot duplex condominium at the Carhart Mansion on the market with mega-broker Dolly Lenz for ... READ MORE»
Last Wednesday, The Observer reported that the brokers Anne Corey and Serena Boardman would be marketing Bernard Madoff's penthouse. But it wasn't until late Friday that their $9.9 million listing finally came online. The thing is a... READ MORE»
The Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations has a lovely new apartment. According to two deeds filed Friday, the group spent $4,235,000 on a 2,840-square-foot apartment at Trump World Tower, plus a $5.4 million commercial space at 633 Third... READ MORE»
This July, a very select group of very proper Manhattan real estate brokers flocked to Bernard Madoff's penthouse at 133 East 64th Street. "Everybody kind of wandered around the apartment, and they herded us into the living room," one of the brokers complained afterward. "I just don’t see how they can make an evaluation on who to... READ MORE»
Carlos Peralta, whose entry in Forbes' 2003 billionaires list mentioned his interest in hydroponic tomato-growing and baseball, also has a good eye for comically plush real estate.... READ MORE»
Susan Bloomberg, the mayor's ex-wife, turns out to have a very hip apartment. A One Kenmare Square penthouse filled with punchy reds, yellows and purples (plus what may or not be some crushed velvet furniture) was just listed for $11.5 million. According to city records, Ms. Bloomberg spent $10 million on the place three years... READ MORE»
By Bonnie Kavoussi | August 19, 2009 | 2:08 pm
It’s become a cliché now: for the past few years, the Finger Building has been getting the finger from Williamsburg residents, the guy who sued (Scott Spector), HSBC, and even from its new owners, who have changed its name to the Albero (“the Tree” in Italian). Though construction had stalled and the building had even entered foreclosure, the Finger (as it is still known in Williamsburg) at 144 North Eighth Street is finally under construction... READ MORE»
By Bonnie Kavoussi | August 14, 2009 | 10:56 am
Is a shiny new Park Avenue condo fated to become the next... READ MORE»
Nicole Ferejohn, 27, was paying $1,200 per month to rent a walk-up apartment on Avenue A and St. Marks about a year ago when she decided that it was time to own, invest, reduce the tax load a bit. She was thinking brownstone, original moldings, maybe some brick or a tin ceiling, a quirky layout. “But then I started looking and I was like, ‘Holy bejesus, they’re all like a million dollars!’” said Ms. Ferejohn,... READ MORE»
Both the Foundry and L Haus, two Long Island City condo developments marketed by Prudential Douglas Elliman, seemed to be presenting themselves as urban oases—nooks of green in Queens. They offered outdoor space aplenty, plant-oriented décor in their sales offices, enormous bathtubs, green literature and logos, and, in the case of L Haus, a lime green... READ MORE»
Residents of Sheffield57, perhaps the most ill-starred condo conversion in recent history, are "euphoric" that developer Kent Swig and his junior partners on Thursday formally lost control of the project they began four years... READ MORE»