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.
There’s no tin roof on this newly listed Bel-Air estate
Former NYC City Council speaker buys $3 million apartment out of his old district
Cartoonist’s East Side lair sells for $531 million
Actor finally unloads his $5 million condo in Tribeca
She’s leaving Manhattan for homes in three other areas, but Texas is out
April resales ease from March, plunge 12.9 percent from a year earlier
Prices tick up in March, according to one index
Foreigners are gobbling up residential real estate in New York, Miami and elsewhere
Proportion of first-time buyers plunges to 35.7 percent from 43.4 percent a year earlier
Prospective buyers will bear a heavy burden of lowered cap on loans
Rates slip yet again to record for 2011
Loan activity enjoys respectable bounce
Federal government seeks comment on new mortgage disclosure forms designed to protect consumers
Total delinquencies essentially unchanged in first quarter
In D.C.’s stronger market, there are lots of losers
Should retirees stay put, downsize or get out altogether?
Owners of unsold vacation homes increasingly embrace renting as an option
Change your clocks twice a year, check your credit free once
And if you have shunned the 7 deadly credit sins, you’ll be pleased by that score
Playfulness mingles with social responsibility at furniture fair
First, the kitchen has to fit you
Learn from writer’s experience how to avoid disappearance of your contractor
Home insurance premiums are on the rise
Most recycled carpet padding contains toxic chemicals in recent tests
New service lets you paint by number from your photos without explaining why it’s a good idea
Record number of renters spend more than half their income on housing
Builders remain as glum as they have been for months
Blogger finds that prices are not far above their historic lows and could overshoot on the downside
Numbers crunchers will celebrate this new database of U.S. home sales over half a century
54 percent of adults doubt that housing’s recovery is just around the corner
Unsurprisingly, accurate recovery projections prove to be elusive
Some experts predict 7-10 percent rise in home sales this year
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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