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Category : Residential
Market competition creates brokers who are much more than just door openers
With more than 30,000 active real estate sales agents and brokers in Manhattan alone, it’s a difficult task to stand out in the crowd of go-getters looking for the next big deal. But more and more, brokers are putting to good use their previous skills and experiences to help them...
Chamberlainʼs uniform strokes suit different folks
In a neighborhood filled with synagogues, yeshivas and kosher restaurants, practicing Jewish Upper West Siders can still face challenges in their home during Shabbat. Whether it’s using buttons on an elevator or opening the refrigerator, observant Jews are forced to find ways around daily activities during their day of rest....
HAVE YOU HEARD? Citi Habitats agent lands spot on ‘The Proposal’
Citi Habitats’ agent Michael Chadwick will appear as a contestant on ABC-TV’s new reality show The Proposal. Hosted by Jesse Palmer, former NFL quarterback and star of Season 5 of The Bachelor, each episode of the series features 10 eligible singles competing in four pageant-style rounds to win the heart...
Astoria Rising: Queens neighborhood primed for vertical expansion
As far as outer-borough enclaves go, Astoria is anything but typical. Other neighborhoods along the once-blighted Brooklyn-Queens industrial belt have leveraged waterfront development into widespread real estate prosperity, but Astoria has thrived without it, at least until now. A popular ferry service, several big construction projects and the prospect of...
Jesse Metcalfe and fiance Cara Santana close on Essex Crossing condo
Newly-engaged couple pay $1.88M for city pad
Sales slow in The Hamptons
The second quarter market reports have just been released by some of the top brokerage firms, and in Long Island and the Hamptons, the second quarter produced a mixed bag. On the North Fork, where the median sales price increased year-over-year for the fifth consecutive quarter, the share of sales...
HAVE YOU HEARD? Yachting champ’s estate and Tommy Hilfiger’s home up for sale
A majestic estate built for America’s Cup winner Charles Oliver Iselin is being offered for sale at $18.95 million. The 23,000 s/f house is part of the exclusive Premium Point gated community made up of a series of small islands in the Long Island Sound off the shore of New...
DONE DEALS: California dreamer
A Park Slope one bedroom priced just under the sellerʼs ask was scooped up in days. “It was the most attractively priced and accessibly located one bedroom in the zip code with a low monthly, ideal for a young single professional,” said Paul Zumoff of Rutenberg NYC, who listed unit...
City could rein in creative developers who believe the sky is the limit
Developers continue to employ novel methods to amass the tallest buildings in the city, leaving brokers and their clients to adjust to an obsession with height. While new developments are restricted to the area’s zoning laws, developers have come up with several ways to get taller buildings while still complying...