Monthly Archives: February 2012

Family's lone holding enters hot Manhattan market

The building is owned by a family that is not a major player in New York real estate. In fact, the apartment house is its only holding. Ms. Stacom says the building could continue as a rental or be transformed into a condominium.See all stories on this topic »

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Three Cents Worth: Manhattan's Bonus-to-Sales Lag

Since the New York State Comptroller announced official Wall Street 2011 compensation numbers today (to be distributed in 2012), I thought I'd compare Wall Street compensation per person against Manhattan sales by year. As an industry, real estate See all stories on this topic »

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Google Weaves its Web in New York City

stumbled upon the following item in of all places the Real Estate section, “Google Web Grows in City.” It is all about how Google, through acquisitions and expansions has grown its presence in New York City, the borough of Manhattan to be precise.See all stories on this topic »

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PHOTOS – Meet The Cast of Million Dollar Listing New York Plus Cast Gossip

He made a rapid rise as one of the top producers at the firm, selling $102 million in real estate his first two years in the business. Currently ranked the #16 broker in Manhattan by The Real Deal magazine, Ryan builds his growing reputation through See all stories on this topic »

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Woody Heller on Investment Sales and New Demand for Lower Manhattan

But while the positive uptick is easily verifiable, what happens next for Manhattan's investment sales market is still up in the air. Accordingly, The Commercial Observer set out to speak with the real estate industry's most accomplished capital See all stories on this topic »

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FREE MONTHLY SEMINARS TAUGHT BY INDUSTRY LEADERS

Madison Learning Center (MLC), the educational arm of Madison Commercial Real Estate Services (MCRES), has launched Monthly Learning With Madison, a series of free, live breakfast seminars for real estate professionals held in both Manhattan and New See all stories on this topic »

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The Howard Hughes Corporation Issues Letter to Shareholders

These industry veterans bring decades of experience and a track record of success working for prominent real estate companies across the country. In 2011, we formed joint venture partnerships on three assets: Ala Moana Tower, Parcel D at Columbia Town See all stories on this topic »

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Continuing the Fight Against Segregation

increasingly, the real estate industry itself, has opened previously segregated neighborhoods. But it is premature to declare victory and pronounce that it is time to move on. The Manhattan Institute report acknowledges that progress has been slow.See all stories on this topic »

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Medium Cool: Investment Sales Volume Spiked in 2011, but Future's Still Cloudy

By Carl Gaines 2:41pm A self-described car guy, Woody Heller, executive managing director and head of the Capital Transactions Group at Studley, sees parallels between automobiles as hard assets and commercial real estate investment sales velocity in See all stories on this topic »

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Testimony: Lawyer got $30000 in $100 bills to give Annabi

A Yonkers real estate manager testified today that he gave lawyer Anthony Mangone $30000 to pass along to Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi so she would vote in favor of his company's plans for developing two school properties.See all stories on this topic »

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Social studies: the 76th Whitney Biennial revels in its own eclecticism

Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971, in which the artist pinpointed the real-estate holdings of slumlord Harry Shapolsky and traced his relationship to and questionable transactions with a few of the museum's See all stories on this topic »Capital New York

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Wall St 2011 cash bonuses to dip 14 pct-NY official

accounting and consulting has helped offset the effect of financial sector job cuts on the city's commercial real estate market. The entire financial services sector occupies about a third of Manhattan's 392.9 million square feet of office space, See all stories on this topic »

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Condos | Lower-Manhattan-Real-Estate.com – New York Property

According to State's attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, developers will be required to submit an electronic copy of the plans and proposals in softcopy to the lower-manhattan-real-estate.com/tag/condos/

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StreetEasy: 327 East 82nd St. #2 – Condo Apartment Sale in

Condo for sale in Yorkville, Manhattan for $1600000, 6 rooms, 3 beds, 2 baths, 1830 ft². StreetEasy NYC Real Estate & Manhattan Apartments For Sale streeteasy.com/…/665373-condo-327-east-82nd-street-yorkvill…

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NYC Real Estate Brokerage with Listings of Manhattan Apartments

Tom Toomey, chief executive officer of real estate investment firm UDR Inc. …. It insured 107 mortgages for condos in Manhattan last year, compared with 90 in citihabitats.com/press/viewarticle.php?article_id=4537

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Parkchester Condo! Safe Secure Classic! Close to 6 – Univision.com

$90000, 1br, Parkchester Condo! This one bedroom condo is a great price, close to Manhattan and a starter home. ASSOCIATE REAL ESTATE BROKER clasificadosnewyork.univision.com/…6…/28050604

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New York Fed Acquires 33 Maiden Lane for $208M

The decision comes on the heels of a financial analysis that considered the bank's long-term space requirements and potential fluctuations in Lower Manhattan's real estate market. The purchase officially got the green light by the New York Fed's board See all stories on this topic »GlobeSt.com

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Pandit Fast Money With Hedge Funds Proving Citigroup Dead End

When Pandit, 55, was promoted in December 2007, CCA managed $59 billion in hedge funds, private- equity pools and real estate. In 2007, it earned net income — from fees charged to clients and gains on its own money — of $672 million.See all stories on this topic »Bloomberg

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York Buys Manhattan Office Tower for $207 Million

CBRE announced this week that they have sold 33 Maiden Lane, an approximately 600000-square-foot Midtown office tower, to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on behalf of a closed-end German fund managed by Invesco Real Estate, in cooperation with See all stories on this topic »

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Alaska's oil windfall

The fund reported a loss of 18.5% that year, but it generated 20.5% returns in fiscal year 2011. The fund also makes longer-term bets on real estate and infrastructure. Alaska's fund is a 50% owner of the Manhattan headquarters of megabank UBS.See all stories on this topic »

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REITs bet Manhattan rental market will stay strong at sales' expense for years

Real Estate Investment Trusts are betting that Manhattan's rental market will remain strong for years to come, Bloomberg News reported, and consequently are betting against a sales rebound. REITs have been snapping up Manhattan rental apartments in See all stories on this topic »The Real Deal New York (blog)

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Oprah is selling her New York apartment where Gayle King has been living

Oprah is taking her New York apartment out of her portfolio by putting the mogul's Manhattan penthouse up for sale. The Queen of Talk really didn't spend much time in this piece of property, according to Housing Predictor. The real estate site said See all stories on this topic »

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Zwirn's Fall From Hedge Fund Glory a Horror Story of Doing the Right Thing

There's the $17 million condo on Central Park South, the summer place in Quogue, NY, and the $18 million Gulfstream IV jet. Then there's DB Zwirn & Co., the hedge fund that once managed $12 billion in assets, employed 275 people in 14 global offices, See all stories on this topic »Bloomberg

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Boy, 13, sentenced in NYC shopping-cart shove

But that doesn't mean it has to be that way forever," Manhattan Family Court Judge Susan Larabee said as she sentenced one of two boys involved in the Oct. 30 shopping-cart stunt, which left the woman temporarily in a coma and prompted discussion about See all stories on this topic »

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Risky Retail Bet in Manhattan Turns Rosy

Josh Podell, a former executive at Jones New York who runs Podell Real Estate Advisors, a consultancy, said he had been “pleasantly surprised” by the amount of activity on the upper levels. “Historically, this format doesn't work” in New York, he said.See all stories on this topic »New York Times

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Boy Who Pushed Shopping Cart onto Marion Hedges Sentenced

(Prudential Douglas Elliman) MANHATTAN FAMILY COURT — A boy who admitted tossing a shopping cart onto real estate broker and philanthropist Marion Hedges at an East Harlem mall was sentenced to spend up to 18 months in a group home in Westchester See all stories on this topic »DNAinfo

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NY Fed buys downtown Manhattan office building

| NEW YORK Feb 28 (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has purchased an office building at 33 Maiden Lane in downtown Manhattan for $207.5 million, CBRE Group Inc , the brokerage who handled the sale said on Tuesday.See all stories on this topic »

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Bronx-Based KZA Realty Group Closes Commercial Real Estate Deals in East

Miles Mahony of Ripco Real Estate represented the owner. The property is 10000 square feet in size. "We work hard and smart for our clients," Zamechansky said. "It is important that all the deals that we do make economic sense for both parties.See all stories on this topic »

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The Death of Starchitecture? Critics Move to the Small Scale

By Roland Li: Subscribe to Roland's RSS feed An A-list quartet of architecture critics discussed their craft on Monday night at the AIANY's Center for Architecture in Manhattan, arguing for the vitality of buildings in modern life and the impact of See all stories on this topic »International Business Times

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We didn't know we hired a crook: Ratner firm

Jereis – who has no real estate experience – got the “consulting” gig three months after convincing then-Councilwoman Sandy Annabi in July 2006 to change her vote and push through FCR's “Ridge Hill” project. FCR – whose Big Apple projects include See all stories on this topic »

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UK Property Buyers Shift Sights Across Pond

By ANITA LIKUS | Special to the WSJ European property buyers are starting to shop for real estate in the US, and New York in particular, as tough competition and economic uncertainty drive them out of their home markets, industry participants say.See all stories on this topic »

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Downtown Brooklyn's Belltel Lofts Now Over 70% Sold

Brooklyn, NY – Downtown Brooklyn's historic Art Deco gem, BellTel Lofts, a luxury loft condominium, is now over 70% sold. Following this milestone, new units have been released to the market and three new model residents, beautifully furnished by Tui See all stories on this topic »

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NY Fed Spends $207.5 Million To Buy Additional Office Space

The bank said it paid Merit US Real Estate Fund III, LP $207.5 million to buy 33 Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan, which is very close to its current fortess-like main facility. The new acquisition will be owned by a Fed-run company called Maiden See all stories on this topic »

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Manhattan home to three of five biggest building buys in 2011

Three out of the five biggest building buys in 2011, by price, were Manhattan office towers, according to figures from The Real Deal's 2012 Data Book. The biggest transaction of 2011 was the purchase of the Starrett-Lehigh Building, at 601 West 26th See all stories on this topic »The Real Deal New York (blog)

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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full

44% Increase in Operating Earnings per Share; Declares a $0.40 per Share Quarterly Dividend; Names Stuart A. Rothstein as Chief Executive Officer, President and Director NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 02/28/12 — Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, See all stories on this topic »

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World's most famous hawk loses another mate

In the years since he first arrived in Manhattan, Pale Male's love life has been chronicled with the kind of intensity usually reserved for A-list celebrities. He appears to be taking the latest chapter in stride, spotted with a new female near his See all stories on this topic »

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Manhattan Rents | Real Estate Investment Trusts | UDR

Real Estate Investment Trusts, led by UDR, believe Manhattan's rental market will remain strong at the expense of its sales market for years to come.The Real Deal New York

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UrbanDigs: Manhattan 1YR Nhood Pending Sales Charts & Thoughts

Below are 1YR PENDING SALES trends for all Manhattan neighborhoods below 96th street and some thoughts on each. I added in some supply trend #s when I thought necessary – subscribers can do all these chart combinations in the Manhattan Real Estate: New York…

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Renters on the Rise

The benefit of living in a rental conversion or mixed building is that the renters have use of the amenities and the finishes without owning the condo. “That's a big allure now,” said Daniel Hedaya, president of Platinum Properties in Manhattan.See all stories on this topic »

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NYC's underground LowLine park would pipe in sunlight for trees

One group of entrepreneurs want to build a fiber-optic system that would gather sunlight from aboveground and channel it down into an abandoned trolley station, lighting a 1.5-acre park underneath the Lower East Side of Manhattan.See all stories on this topic »Mother Nature Network

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Art Opening to Be Held Tomorrow Night at “Madison-Jackson”

Earlier this month, we reported on the “Madison-Jackson,” a luxury condo development in an old school building across from the Vladeck Houses. The building includes many amenities, including a rotating art exhibition program in the ground-floor common See all stories on this topic »

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Construction permits soared in 2011

Manhattan was second with 22%, followed by Brooklyn with 21%, the Bronx with 17% and Staten Island with 8%. Mr. Anderson said the data show that larger proposed construction projects, consisting of five or more units, tend to be the ones getting See all stories on this topic »

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Leader of Mortgage Fraud Scheme Sentenced

Donald MacPherson, 68, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty in November to 34 counts of grand larceny and numerous other felonies for bilking lenders out of more than $44 million in a massive mortgage fraud scheme. Although some co-defendants got more See all stories on this topic »

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A New Harlem

from Lower Manhattan to occupy them. The Panic of 1893, spurned on by railroad overbuilding and dubious railroad financing that set off a series of bank failures, stopped the rapid housing development in its tracks and thwarted real estate sales.See all stories on this topic »

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Town Talk: Chinese restaurant opens at 23rd and Iowa; rental registration fee

In Kansas, only Manhattan had a higher percentage at 61 percent. Another factoid for you, residential rental payments in 2010 totaled more than $200 million in Lawrence. So, with all of that in mind, it will be interesting to see if the city takes up a See all stories on this topic »

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DCP INTERNATIONAL SELECTED TO CREATE NEW RESIDENCE CLUB IN LA PAZ, MEXICO

CostaBaja.com) announced today it has retained DCP International (DCP), pioneers of the residence club real estate concept, to consult on the structuring, marketing and sale of its new fractional ownership opportunity. The Residence Club at CostaBaja See all stories on this topic »

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PUBLIC NOTICES FEBRUARY 28, 2012

4Title to Real Estate InvolvedPursuant to KSA S60 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Leavenworth County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Leavenworth See all stories on this topic »

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Manhattan Beach Real Estate: Manhattan Beach Ocean View

Manhattan Beach Real Estate for Sale. MLS Listings. Condos, Townhouses, Single Family Homes, Foreclosures, REOs, Short Sales, Income Property, Leases, www.90266realestate.com/…/manhattan-beach-ocean-view-ho…

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nyc village real estate | IRONSTATE DEVELOPMENT

Tag Archives: nyc village real estate. PARTNERS PLANNING NEW VILLAGE CONDO His noteworthy projects in Manhattan include 173/176 Perry Street ironstatedevelopment.wordpress.com/tag/nyc-village-real-estate/

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Most Expensive NYC Neighborhoods in 2011 – PropertyShark

According to Curbed, the condo was bought by Russian composer Igor Krutoy after an “epic real estate search” in the radius of 15 Central Park West, the Plaza, www.propertyshark.com/…/most-expensive-nyc-neighborhoo…

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New York Real Estate Developer Elie Hirschfeld to Compete in Annual Climb to

Climb to the Top is an unique event where participants climb 66 flights of stairs to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck in Rockefeller Center and experience an amazing view of the Manhattan skyline. Hirschfeld will participate in the elite division See all stories on this topic »

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SL Green Closes Sale of NYC's 390 KSF 10 E. 53rd

With leases accounting for 60 percent of the office space scheduled to expire over the next three years, SL Green and CPPIB are in a position to capitalize on the rising office rental rates in Manhattan. As per a report by commercial real estate See all stories on this topic »Commercial Property Executive

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Builders: No deal to get Sandy Annabi to end her opoposition to Ridge Hill

The two were prosecution witnesses at the corruption trial of Annabi and Jereis in federal court in Manhattan. Bender, an executive vice president, acknowledged that the consulting job Jereis eventually got for setting up the meeting between Annabi and See all stories on this topic »

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Wealthy Brazilians Moving to Manhattan in Greater Numbers Than

Wealthy foreigners made up roughly 30% of all buyers of Manhattan condos in quietly but no less dominantly infiltrating the Manhattan real estate market.newconstructionmanhattan.com/…/wealthy-brazilians-moving-…

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StreetEasy: 121 West 20th St. – Condo Apartment Rental in Chelsea

Condo for rent in Chelsea, Manhattan for $15000, 2 beds, 2.5 baths, 2000 ft². StreetEasy NYC Real Estate & Manhattan Apartments For Sale. Printed from streeteasy.com/…/850586-condo-121-west-20th-street-chelsea-…

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Manhattan Lures REITs Capitalizing on Rising Rents as Sales Lag: Mortgages

Tom Toomey, chief executive officer of real estate investment firm UDR Inc. (UDR), is betting the best rental deal in Manhattan is owning the whole building. The nation's third-largest apartment real estate investment trust bought a five-tower See all stories on this topic »

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First siphon bar opens in NYC

Blue Bottle Coffee, a California-based chain, opened its Brooklyn location in 2010 and its first Manhattan cafe on Feb. 18. "The owner of Blue Bottle Coffee has relations in real estate," Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande, manager of the Chelsea branch, said.See all stories on this topic »NYU Washington Square News

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What's the Racial Makeup of Your School?

Like a city unto itself, Stuyvesant High School, in Lower Manhattan, is broken into neighborhoods, official and otherwise. The math department is on the 4th of its 10 floors; biology is on the 7th. Seniors congregate by the curved mint wall off the See all stories on this topic »

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BofA, News Corp., JPMorgan, Apple, Monsanto in Court News

The US Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court ruling and granted a request by Bank of America and the investor group to remand the case to New York state court, where it was first filed, according to a decision yesterday.See all stories on this topic »

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Robert Ireland's Art Exhibition Debuts at Madison-Jackson Building

Michael is a pioneer who has his finger on the pulse for real estate trends, making Madison-Jackson the hot new luxury building in downtown Manhattan. The 110-unit, six-story historical pre-war building features an assortment of high-end amenities, See all stories on this topic »

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Gross moving to Avenue mag

By JENNIFER GOULD KEIL Avenue Magazine has tapped “740 Park” author Michael Gross to be its new real-estate editor as part of a string of new hires. “Real estate is the most popular sport in Manhattan. It is central to what Avenue does,” said Tom Allon See all stories on this topic »

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The waning of finance

By Martin Hutchinson Wall Street's 2011 results were disappointing and the howls of banker anguish over shrunken bonuses have reverberated through the better Manhattan restaurants, bars and clubs. The rise in financial services' share of the economy, See all stories on this topic »

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Aqueduct plans raise questions about need for a new convention center

Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, at a recent budget hearing. Kenneth Adams, chairmen and CEO of Empire State Development Corporation, responded by saying "what Genting has asked for is simply consideration of a new tax formula on any new slot machines … for See all stories on this topic »

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Flappers Flock to National Arts Club

In blazers and ties, flapper headwraps and sparkly, black dresses, they could have been awaiting the opening of Manhattan's latest nightclub. "I met you at that real estate party," exclaimed one guest to another. "And—yes—I sold all those spaces!See all stories on this topic »Wall Street Journal

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24-Hour Cities Deliver 76% Higher ROI on Commercial Real Estate Investments

A report from NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Clinical Associate Professor Hugh F. Kelly shows that cities that never sleep outperform 9-to-5 cities on return on investment, rent and vacancy rates. According to Kelly's report, titled "24-Hour See all stories on this topic »

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$1 Trillion In Student Loans Causing The Market For First-Home Buyers To Crater

By Diane Dolinsky-… on 2012-02-27 The slumping real estate market received a dose of bad news from a Federal Reserve study recently, that points to yet another structural problem: High student loan debt for young adults is putting the cost of See all stories on this topic »HULIQ

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I'll take Manhattan

That dispute was settled when Minuit paid those Indians some $24 worth of beads and provisions for the property, now known as Manhattan Island, an important part of New York City. The Dutch settlers and their governors were very strict and straight See all stories on this topic »

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Temp office firm announces 3 new NYC locations

By Katherine Clarke From left: Colleen Susini, director for NYC at Regus, 112 W. 34th Street, 57 W. 57th Street and 411 Lafayette Street International flexi-office space provider Regus, which is known for offering flexible long- and short-term leasing See all stories on this topic »

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New York's MTA to seek bidders for Madison Ave site

2014 at the latest," Jeffrey Rosen, director of real estate, said at a finance committee meeting. Headquarters and business services workers would be transferred to 2 Broadway in downtown Manhattan, which the authority occupies under a net lease.See all stories on this topic »

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Canada Pension Plan takes stake in midtown Manhattan building

By Kevin Olsen Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto, invested US$57.4 million in a new joint venture with commercial real estate landlord SL Green Realty, confirmed board spokeswoman Linda Sims. The board, which oversees the C$152.8 billion See all stories on this topic »

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Splurge Vs. Steal, Midtown Edition: Comparing Cheaper Alternatives To

Welcome back to Splurge/Steal, a feature that we've shamelessly borrowed from our friends at Eater. In it, we give you five high-class apartments in a particular neighborhood and five more affordable (but still probably not all that affordable) See all stories on this topic »

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Citysitesny.com Estimated Value $5868.00 USD » Citysitesny, new

But finding the perfect real estate in NYC can be tough. That's where CitySites New York comes in. For New York City apartments or any Manhattan real estate, browse our listings to find a New York City apartment, luxury condo or home that WideStat.com – Website Worth…

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Oprah's, or Gayle King's, NY Penthouse Hits the Market

- — In the world of celebrity real estate, stars buy homes through trusts in LLCs in an effort to cut the paper trail leading to their name. Despite their best efforts, it's possible to figure out who the real owner of a mansion or penthouse is with a See all stories on this topic »

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Cottages & Gardens Publications Builds on its Dominance of Local Real Estate

27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — With the March launch of NYC&G New York Cottages & Gardens, Cottages & Gardens Publications expands its dominance of real estate market reportage to include New York City, Westchester, the Gold Coast of Long Island See all stories on this topic »

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Straddling the Line Between Hobbyist and Professional

Being from Manhattan, Mr. Waxenberg, who has a gentle demeanor and an easy sense of humor, grew up with some awareness of real estate. His aunt is a broker, he said, and his mother prefers not to let a dinner conversation pass without mentioning that See all stories on this topic »New York Times

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Citysitesny.com Estimated Value $5868.00 USD » Citysitesny, new

But finding the perfect real estate in NYC can be tough. That's where CitySites New York comes in. For New York City apartments or any Manhattan real estate, browse our listings to find a New York City apartment, luxury condo or home that WideStat.com – Website Worth…

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SL Green Closes Acquisition of 10 East 53rd Street

This expands our real estate portfolio in New York City to interests in five prime office buildings in Manhattan. We are pleased to be partnering once again with SL Green who has a strong track record at repositioning Midtown office properties.See all stories on this topic »

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Celebrity home sales: Localizing real estate secrets of the rich and famous

Polsky said she keeps up with celebrity real estate sales by regularly checking public records. The data includes information on buyers and sellers, which can make celebrities more easily identifiable, but there is a catch. Manhattan real estate buyers See all stories on this topic »Reynolds Center

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CPP board pays US$57.4 million for stake in New York City office building

SL Green said the purchase price of the the property — 10East 53rd Street — in the Plaza district of midtown Manhattan was $252.5 million. Peter Ballon, the board's head of real estate investments for the Americas, said the deal gives the pension See all stories on this topic »

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Bagels and Luxe

(New York Architectual Renderings) Six years after developing the old Jewish Daily Forward building into luxury condos, real-estate agent Michael Bolla is back with another listing that will likely be of interest to Jewish New Yorkers.See all stories on this topic »

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More space for Manhattan offices

The last time that much space came online was 1989, said Robert Sammons, vice president of research at Cassidy Turley, a real estate brokerage. The additions come as financial service firms have contracted in the wake of the recession and continued See all stories on this topic »

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'Wanderlust' Is A Familiar But Fun Little Comedy

George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) begin as just a fairly normal couple struggling with sky-high real estate prices in Manhattan. Deeming themselves too old to be renters, they end up scraping together enough cash to buy a tiny apartment See all stories on this topic »

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Have prosecutors done enough to thwart crime?

Preet Bharara is the latest in a long line of US Attorneys in Manhattan who have zealously gone after Wall Street crime. It remains to be seen whether Bharara will use the position as a stepping stone to a political career. For now, he's basking in the See all stories on this topic »

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Someone please fix the sound before next year's Oscars

Listening to Faye Dunaway complain about Manhattan real estate law for three hours would have been better. Watching James Cameron bellow “I'm the king of the world!” over and over into a mirror would have been better. Even a “Clockwork Orange”-esque See all stories on this topic »

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After Years of Setbacks, Whole Foods Faces Decisive Vote in Brooklyn

In the shadow of a Superfund site and between two neighborhoods that would seem to cry out for all things organic, the area remains vacant and underdeveloped; and Whole Foods has opened four other stores in Manhattan. That could finally change on See all stories on this topic »New York Times

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Brazil Banking on Manhattan Real Estate | Edge Blog | Elegran Real

ELEGRAN, Real Estate and Development been steadily buying up many of the high-end condos in Manhattan and names that bring a smile to brokers' face.www.elegran.com/…/brazil-banking-on-manhattan-real-estate

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New York City Condos: Lower East Side/Chinatown, 2 Bedroom

NYC real estate property listing details. 154 ATTORNEY ST. #405 – ULTRA- COOL MODERN LOWER EAST SIDE TW0-BEDROOM CONDO WITH TERRACE www.bondnewyork.com/nyc_apartment_listing_176753.htm

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Long dormant Queens tourism group is revived

Jeffrey Reich-Hale, sales director for the Wyndham Garden LIC Manhattan View Hotel, Bob Singleton, executive director of the Greater Astoria Historical Society, Bob MacKay, director of tourism for the Queens Economic Development Corp.See all stories on this topic »New York Daily News

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MetLife Originates More Than $11 Billion in Commercial Mortgages in 2011

MetLife Real Estate Investments completed a number of high-quality real estate transactions with loan sizes of $200 million and above, including: $350 million on 1540 Broadway, an office building in Manhattan; $255 million on 155 North Wacker, See all stories on this topic »

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Citysitesny.com Estimated Value $5868.00 USD » Citysitesny, new

But finding the perfect real estate in NYC can be tough. That's where CitySites New York comes in. For New York City apartments or any Manhattan real estate, browse our listings to find a New York City apartment, luxury condo or home that WideStat.com – Website Worth…

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King of 57th street

By JAMES COVERT and LOIS WEISS The real-estate tycoon — whose office tower at 9 W. 57th is among the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan — has agreed to shell out a whopping $120 million for a prize property across the street at 12 W. 57th, See all stories on this topic »

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BP, Anadarko, Merrill, Monsanto, Google, Apple in Court News

“Something big happened at MF Global last December,” US District Judge Victor Marrero said at an initial conference on Friday in Manhattan federal court, where dozens of lawyers in at least three set of lawsuits gathered. “Whether the case is in New See all stories on this topic »

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What's The Deal

SL Green, the largest owner of Manhattan office buildings, will take the rest and also will manage the property. The Canada investment board, which invests funds from the Canada Pension Plan, clearly feels good about its forays into Manhattan office See all stories on this topic »

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Dubai, China Get Rooms

Istithmar stubbed its toe on several top-of-the-market Manhattan investments during the depths of the market collapse. In 2007, it bought a 73% stake in the 248-room Mandarin Oriental in a deal that valued the hotel at $340 million.See all stories on this topic »

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ANALYSIS: Azadi for Mumbai -Sonali Ranade

In recent years it has yielded its place to other cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, even Delhi as the centre that attracts new enterprises because of its dysfunctional infrastructure and sky-high real estate prices.See all stories on this topic »

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Plaza Hotel's $33.5 Million, $8.3 Million Condos Sold [PHOTOS

Plaza Hotel's $33.5 Million, $8.3 Million Condos Sold [PHOTOS]. Author: Roland Li. Click Image To Enlarge. Unit 603, The Corcoran Group. Manhattan's www.corcoran.com/news/index.aspx?page=Article&pub…

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StreetEasy: 1020 Manhattan Ave. – Condo Apartment Rental in

Condo for rent in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for $3299, 3 beds, 1 bath. StreetEasy NYC Real Estate & Manhattan Apartments For Sale. Printed from StreetEasy.com streeteasy.com/…/851002-condo-1020-manhattan-ave-greenp…

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NYC Luxury Real Estate Blog

The real estate firm Prudential Douglas Elliman released a report recently that looked at More families are moving into condos in Manhattan than ever before.newconstructionmanhattan.com/blog/justin-spees

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No Fee New York City – No Fee and Fee Apartment Sales and

buying NYC co-ops and condos as a couple. Happy Valentine's Real estate is governed by state, not federal, law, so rules and requirements vary. Consider www.hechtgroup.com/index.cfm?page=blog…02…

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LI people on the move, Feb. 27, 2012

She was most recently executive director of the National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Children's Foundation in Manhattan. REAL ESTATE Samuel Marcus has been promoted to assistant manager of the Roslyn office of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International See all stories on this topic »Newsday

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