Category : Residential

Sports star broker has big goals
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Sports star broker has big goals

REW Staff
by REW Staff1039
In the latest addition to the growing ranks of real estate reality television, HGTV’s Scoring the Deal, viewers get a taste of broker Jason Abrams’ fast-paced approach to finding homes for professional athletes. Abrams and business partner Kristen Cook travel around the country on behalf of their clients. In the first episode, Abrams and Cook helped football star Clinton Portis chose a Miami condo. Other athletes featured this season include NFL pros Adewale Ogunleye, Vontae and Vernon Davis and NBA stars Greivis Vasquez and Jordan Farmar.
Green living in Bed-Stuy
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Green living in Bed-Stuy

REW Staff
by REW Staff954
Leasing is now underway at Acacia, the first rental building In Bed-Stuy striving for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification and home to the neighborhood’s first on-site co-generation plant. With 105 luxury rental residences, the nine-story development will offer high-efficiency technology that will reduce Acacia’s carbon footprint,...
Elm attracting rush of renters
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Elm attracting rush of renters

REW Staff
by REW Staff992
The Elm East, a new luxury rental at 8-55 Broadway in Elmhurst, Queens, has surpassed its initial objectives by leasing up half of the 83 units in the first month on the market. Renters have responded favorably to the convenience of a 12-minute subway commute to Midtown Manhattan and a...
Witkoff offers brokers a free Porsche
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Witkoff offers brokers a free Porsche

REW Staff
by REW Staff939
The Witkoff Group has a new Porsche for the residential broker who does most to sell out 515 East 72. At a broker event over the holidays, Norma-Jean Callahan, sales manager and member of Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, announced that the building is now 70 percent sold. Witkoff - who took over the project with partner Wetsbrook in 2011 - also announced new broker incentives that include a 36-month lease and insurance payments for a new Porsche for brokers who sell $10 million in the 515 East 72 tower between now and March 31, 2013.
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Priciest homes in NYC last year

Sarah Trefethen
by Sarah Trefethen1227
In a year of ever-climbing prices for Manhattan residential space, some buildings stood out from the pack in their ability to command eye-popping sales prices. Here, we present New York City’s 10 most expensive residential buildings of 2012, based on data compiled by StreetEasy.com. Central Park is still the place to be if you’re looking to sell a home for an eye-popping price, but the Hudson River is poised to give that tradition a run for its money in 2013, with the up-and-coming West Side sneaking in at tenth place.
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Development partners pay $50M for Hell’s Kitchen site

REW Staff
by REW Staff888
DHA Capital, the recently-formed development and investment firm with a $250 million purse, has bought a Hell's Kitchen development site for $50 million. The company, founded by veteran New York developer Dan Hollander, partnered with USAA Real Estate Company and Crimson Real Estate Fund to purchase 546 West 44th Street from Pasha Group.
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Real estate good guy gets them at ‘Hello’

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by REW980
In the viewpoint of Max J. Kozower, president and founder of Max Jacobs Inc., primary residential shopping should be a pleasurable relationship based experience.
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AC Lawrence expands into former Manhattan Apartments space

REW Staff
by REW Staff949
AC Lawrence Real Estate announced that it is expanding its residential real estate operations to Manhattan’s West Side, and will be moving some of its agents into an 11,000 s/f office at 729 Seventh Avenue in the Theater District. This marks significant growth for the full-service residential and commercial brokerage, which was acquired recently by The Bellmarc Group. The prime 729 Seventh Avenue loft location had been the offices of Manhattan Apartments Inc., a residential brokerage founded in 1984.
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Reba never rests on her laurels

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by REW886
At 23 years old, Reba Miller walked into the luxury boutique real estate firm Whitbread-Nolan for her first day. She was promptly given a seat and told: “you’re on your own.” Today, over $1 billion worth of sales and almost 30 years later, Ms.Miller, who made her name by almost dominating the market on Madison Avenue, continues to be a go-to name in New York City real estate across continents.