Will Ferrell once had a tough time reasoning with his toddler proprietor in his brilliant Funny or Die landlord skit, but it seems that these days his real estate luck is on the up. According to a source close to the deal, Mr. Ferrell and his wife, the Swedish actress Viveca Paulin, are Read More
Everything that comes up must come down, even the price tags for apartments with telephone-programmed air-conditioning, six-head steam showers, motorized refrigerator shelves, heated towel bars, master suite sitting rooms and 1,100-square-foot entertaining terraces.
Earlier this month, the asking price of a four-bedroom apartment at 45 West 67th Street fell to $8,975,000, two years after it was Read More
The software magnate Marty Sprinzen’s $24.5 million, 4,552-square-foot, seven-room apartment at 838 Fifth Avenue, the kind of place where there’s museum-quality lighting, Venetian plaster and heated Portuguese limestone floors in the entrance gallery alone, went to contract last month, according to its Brown Harris Stevens listing.
By itself, that news wouldn’t mean much. After all, signed Read More
The mansion’s broker, both sources said, Read More
Unreal Estate! A slide show through the city's prettiest pitied townhouse Read More
Location: What was your childhood like?Ms. Field: Very Middle America; perfect; ideal; Donna Reed … My mother wore the apron; president of the PTA; had a baking day, had a shopping day; Ashtabula, Ohio.
You were a Pan Am flight attendant in the late ’70s, when you married. Where did you meet your husband?Four twenty-nine East Read More
In January, he ended up buying Read More
On Nov. 3, 2003, Lionel Pincus was standing in a tuxedo in the New York Public Library’s Astor Hall. It was the Library Lions gala, and everything was lovely. The venture capitalist’s longtime companion, Princess Firyal of Jordan, was there, and so were Lord Conrad Black, Veronica Hearst and Henry Louis Gates. Trumpets called guests Read More
What does luxury in Brooklyn look like? That doesn’t seem to matter so much as what it looks at.
The borough’s most expensive apartment, the triplex penthouse of David Walentas’ ClockTower building at 1 Main Street in Dumbo, had its coming-out party Thursday night, to the awe and approval of New York’s real estate elite. Read More
If an Upper East Side real estate broker tells you in her nice North Carolina drawl that one of her new listings is “a dreamy apartment,” that she “wouldn’t change a hair” and that it’s got a “beautiful terrace overlooking the park, you look down and watch the polar bears play, it’s just heavenly—heavenly,” it’s Read More
Even though luxury real estate brokers are all horribly optimistic by nature, this summer there was a lot of stoic head-nodding about Manhattan’s fall from absurd exuberance back to reality. They called it the adjustment.
“Everybody likes to make money,” the broker A. Larry Kaiser IV sighed last month, “but you become realistic.”
So the big annual Read More
Whereas everyone accepts that Soho isn’t really a neighborhood anymore, just a well-groomed mall for cologned tourists, Nolita is still wavering between scruffiness and snobbery. Mustachioed hipsters haven’t fully taken over the neighborhood, though neither have balding financiers.
But this summer, the first apartments have closed at 211 Elizabeth Street, which would be an obnoxious new Read More
Real estate stories starring pornography publishers don’t always end well: Penthouse founder Bob Guccione lost his East 67th Street mansion in 2006; Al Goldstein, former publisher of Screw, went from a Pompano Beach mansion (featuring an 11-foot raised middle finger) to sleeping in a car parked behind a Boston Market; even Hugh Hefner sold off Read More
If Schnabel, Sting, Astor and friends sell apartments, look out! Luxury might be Read More
Location: As of today, you have nearly 10 listings under $1 million, but none over $10 million.
Ms. Teplitzky: When we realized the market was going, we basically made a switch. The market started to be active in the under–$1 million range. … What we Read More
