Manhattan rents shoot up 8.2 percent in a year, reaching $3,195 monthly
And Tribeca has biggest change in rents from prior month
Beating out other applicants means renting only what you can afford — and much more advice
Before signing lease, understand landlord’s perspective
Brooklyn, Queens attain highest average sales price in Q3 since 2007
Co-ops and condos grow more and more alike
City makes it easier to file for basic renovations
New York magazine calls One57 just ‘a place to park your cash’
Massive Seward Park development in East Village/Lower East Side wins Council approval
Hudson Valley draws city’s transplants
Brooklyn’s Manhattan Beach becomes one of city’s 10 most expensive neighborhoods
Swanky Pacific Palisades home goes on the market for nearly $10 million
Shortstop finally unloads, for $15.5 million, penthouse near United Nations
Heirs put trailblazing journalist’s home on the market for $20 million
Dish columnist sees his next 12 months in the city as a hardship
Oscar winner selling for $10 million Beverly Hills mansion purchased with Angelina Jolie
Nets forward undergoing divorce rents in Battery Park City
Fed notes ‘widespread improvement’ in residential real estate
Shadow inventory plunges 10.2 percent from July 2011
Hard-hit California leading way out housing bust
Miami roller-coaster has a lot of people shaking their heads and lavish launch parties are back
Lenders dangle discounts to woo top customers
Growing number of scams target homeowners facing foreclosure
And 530 individuals charged with bilking late payers of more than $1 billion in fraud schemes
Purchase activity is highest since June, but refi decrease pulls down total of applications
Rates inch up to 3.39 percent following employment report
Foreclosures drop to five-year low
VA mortgage volume up 300 percent from five years ago
Cursed marriage results in slashed price for horror house
House swapping benefits parents and offspring when approached with care
Dogs do get their due in apartment communities
‘Hey, Coach, can check out your bench?’
Machiavellian brokers sell more real estate than their kinder, gentler colleagues
Layered looks provides opportunity to go ethnic in interior design
You can avoid looking like raccoon in bathroom mirror plus other lighting fixes
Shiller explains how housing expectation can feed a boom but also starve a recovery
Consumer optimism about recovery continues gradual climb
Trulia economist finds that America’s suburban areas continue to grow faster than urban areas
Infographic illuminates how habits of baby boomers, offspring transforming rental market
Generational changes, tight credit to cap recovery below pre-crisis peak
You have the option to search privately for all New York City properties, though I encourage you to be in touch with me for assistance and advice. You also may want to see my 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
127 E. 56th Street
New York, NY 10022
M: 347-886-0248
F: 347-438-3201
Malcolm@ServiceYouCanTrust.com
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