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.
Actress joins others in firing bullets into landlord’s market-value rents
Her purchase in Greenwich Village proves that it pays to have friends
Fated forever to be “daughter of,” a lesser light sells her apartment for a pretty penny
Big Apple deserter and football Hall of Famer puts Dakota co-op on the market
Jeans heirs seek to sell $60 million summer place, and loud mouth takes a loss in Connecticut
Builders see little relief from sluggish market
No wonder: March sales dip to record low for the month
Number of distressed properties nears half of housing market
Perennial perceptions of ‘signs of life’ surface anyway
Case-Shiller’s February indices near post-bubble lows for single-family homes
Weak economic data, lower bond yields drive rates down again
Loan volume continues to decline
Borrower questions why bank gave her loan that would take her 88 years to pay off
Economist notes irony of rising housing affordability and decreasing access to mortgages
Forget about easy money for the purchase of a second home
As in 2009, Gallup finds a big majority of Americans say it’s a good time to buy a home
Percentage of homeownership slips to 13-year low
Remodeling index attains highest level in four years
Seeing double-dip already, Karl Case is anything but an optimist or pessimist
It could take another three years for sales of new homes to reach “normal” levels
Cost of renting may soon overtake cost of buying
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.
Malcolm Carter
Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker
Senior Vice President
Charles Rutenberg Realty
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New York, NY 10022
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