Here’s your chance to catch up with news included to inform, enlighten and perhaps even entertain you. To read about The Big Apple, check out the other of today’s posts and look for Out and About early next week.
Fashion designer with an elastic view of her Greenwich Village home stretches its boundaries
Co-op board twice rejects buyer hopeful of acquiring Astor apartment
Selling his duplex for 10 percent below ask suggests he may not be the greatest at everything
‘I wuz robbed,” TV detective might well cry
All-Star third basemen puts tricked-out loft on the market
Apartment at the Dakota caught author’s eye
Russian billionaire’s girlfriend learns that diamonds aren’t a girl’s only friend
Housing construction remains near historic lows, but permit activity offers glimmer of hope and, unsurprisingly, economists vary in their assessments
While lagging a year ago, home resales enjoy a seasonal bounce from February and rise above 2008 and 2009 levels
Hitting seasonal trough, home prices drop to. . . 2003 levels
Appraisers complain that lenders are shortchanging them from what buyers pay
Rates reverse course in volatile environment
Fed wants lenders to provide mortgages based — get this novel approach — on ability to pay them back
Meanwhile, mortgages are denied for no good reason
Loan-application volume recovers, maybe because of increasing insurance costs for FHA mortgages
Hamptons sellers hardly drown in dollars
Obama acknowledges housing’s impact on economy, and it ain’t puny
Professor contends that multi-generation household can work well for boomers
Furniture that is sort of custom designed catches on with consumers
Crammed homes of downsizing retirees produces decreasing amounts of disposable income
Climbing monthly, index of residential remodeling now is 20 percent higher than a year earlier
Architects detail kitchen, bath trends
The good, the bad and the gnarly of natural-fiber rugs
Builder confidence ebbs again, stubbornly stuck in the pits
Housing starts this year should equal only number of new households
You can search for 20,000 New York City properties listed by various brokers, and I encourage you to be in touch with me for assistance and advice. You also may want to see my periodic critiques of properties that I visit in Out and About, which I post on Mondays or Tuesdays.
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