Word on the street is that Dakota Fanning has shunned dorm life at N.Y.U, preferring something a little more private instead. The actress has taken a two-bedroom place at 225 Lafayette Street, according to the Post. Read More
“I’ve never had anything else like this, it was so much more than any other celebrity-type deal that I’ve done,” Robert Dvorin said of his fresh listing at 153 Franklin Street in Tribeca. “This was another level, this was worldwide. It was on the front page of every paper, a lot of papers all over the world. I don’t know how many deals—I don’t know if I’ll ever have a deal like that again.”
For $50,000 a month, or $13.995 million for good, Dominic Strauss-Kahn’s house-arrest nest can become home. Read More
Dominque Strauss-Kahn is packing up and leaving New York, according to the Post. "Bon débarras!" he must be thinking. It's only been a week since the French financial figaro was set free, but already he's booked it to Washington, and it looks like he is through with New York. But that is his loss and one lucky New Yorker's—or wealthy foreigner's—gain, because Mr. Strauss-Kahn's townhouse at 153 Franklin Street in Tribeca is now back on the market. Read More
Hank Azaria may be the best thing—really the only good thing—about the sacrilege that is Smurfs 3-D. And The Observer had no idea he was even in the movie until he decided to sell his Soho loft. Perhaps that was the whole point. Read More
Kelsey Grammer has a thing for starchitecture, having recently traded a rental at Robert A.M. Stern's 15 Central Park West for his own condo at Jean Nouvel's "Vision Machine," 100 11th. His star power, however, has not helped him find a replacement for his rental. Read More
Much has been made of the fact that Frank Gehry's spetacular apartment tower at 8 Spruce Street boasts hundreds of different facade panels to create its unusual rippling exterior. Less known is that all those curves in the building now known as New York by Gehry also create more than 200 different apartment layouts Read More
The William Beaver House is one of the more unusual apartment buildings in a city full of towers that would fit that description. There is the pixellated black-and-yellow facade, the racy anime ad campaign, the grand foreclosure of Tamir Sapir and Andres Balazs' FiDi glory. But the masses of New York City renters Read More
Closed to new tenants since October in the wake of a mega court decision on rents, Stuyvesant Town is now opening its flood gates.
Per a statement from a Tishman Speyer spokeswoman, the 11,200-apartment mini-city on the East Side will now rent 100 apartments to outsiders looking to get in. Thanks to the court decision, Read More
New report shows the number of apartment leases in Manhattan's doorman buildings way down from last Read More
Though it's early in the season, brokers say the number of Hamptons rental transactions so far is way down in Read More
Tenant incentives and lower rents should be the order of the day, every day, for 2009, according to the Real Estate Group New York's 2008 Manhattan rental market report. The report (PDF) predictably shows rent drops across the borough last year. Doorman-building studios, for instance, dropped 7.38 percent and non-doorman two-bedrooms dropped 5.58 percent Read More
Never have so few earned so much for working so little. It’s not that rental agents are lazy (the successful ones, far from it) or unscrupulous; it’s that they now operate where two slightly symbiotic forces drive Read More
As reported by a member of Stuyvesant Town message board, Tishman Speyer President and Co-CEO Rob Speyer and a group of about nine suits (minus one suit due Read More
According to the most recent Census numbers, in the past year, the number of renter households in the United States increased by nearly 1 million. By contrast, the number of homeowner households increased by just Read More
A totally anecdotal tale we've had with us all day:
We were walking out of our apartment building in Morningside Heights (the area around Columbia University) on Sunday when we encountered a crowd of roughly 20 people streaming into and out of a first-floor apartment. They were young and eager...
And merely the first clump of Read More
