Making the right choice is not always easy whether in chess or real estate. (Flickr photo by metrognome0)
As soon as I saw the headline. . .
. . . I was all but certain that I’d quibble with at least some of what followed.
I was right.
Although the post at Curbed.com gives basically sound advice, especially for buyers, the thing that I most questioned was the following: Continue reading
Open house at Renatus Condominium project, built inside an old church in Grand Rapids., Mich. (Flickr photo by Steven Depolo)
Open houses can have a way of mystifying or misleading consumers.
Luckily, Curbed.com has published a blog post titled “What to Look for at an Open House.” Although much of the information seems to me to be helpful to the novice buyer, another portion strikes me as pretty obvious.
Curbed: Agents love when they can send you to open houses because they can multi-task with a bunch of different clients out at the same time who are essentially doing their work for them.
Malcolm: Yes, I do love it, but not Continue reading
Panel on the Future of Residential Real Estate at New York Law School
Manhattan’s residential real estate market will continue to elude the magnitude of the problems of the rest of the nation during 2012, panelists assembled by New York Law School concurred this week.
But the participants — who included Curbed founder Lockhart Steele and brokerage executive Diane Ramirez — grappled with the question of why our housing market isn’t booming.
Noting limited inventory, real estate attorney Stuart Saft of the Dewey & LeBoeuf firm the told room full of lawyers and real estate professionals Continue reading
Decrease in signed contracts bodes poor fourth quarter and next year’s first quarter
August condo market was setback for that market in Manhattan
Curbed plumbs the mind of a landlord
Sellers who spend wisely on improvements can reap big dividends
Apartments that are furnished enjoy growing demand
Metro region posts one-year 2.2% rise in prices of single-family homes
The Russians are spending! The Russians are spending!
Co-ops need to adjust to same-sex marriages
Architects dish up pie in the sky for affordable housing
With deep pockets, you can rent where the likes of Continue reading
We top another list, not that there’s anything good about that
A plague of boarded-up buildings visits East Harlem, which brims with new condos as well
How do co-op, condo monthly costs compare?
There are 14 ways for a co-op board to reject you even before an interview
With your truly horrible story about renting, Curbed could pay your rent for a month
Global buyers of super-luxury residences show us the money
Among the 10 most expensive distressed properties in the Hamptons is one listed at $9.45 million
In housing court, Faye’s a no-say and must pay with no delay
October’s 2.8 percent decrease marks 13th straight month of lower prices from year to year
They’re buying high and selling much higher in Beverly Hills
First-timers seem undeterred by housing market’s vagaries, lenders’ strictures
Under construction in 2008, the Hotel Ludlow remains somnolent across the street from 179 Ludlow Street. Foreground: former bank that became an artist studio owned by Jasper Johns, later a club. (Curbed.com photo)
The small, nearly completed building, at 179 Ludlow St. near Katz’s deli and across from another failed development intended to be the Hotel Ludlow, is an eyesore. Oddly, the building–which has four apartments and a retail store–in the heart of the gentrified Lower East Side has largely been ignored by the mainstream press.
From everything I’ve been able to glean, however, calling it an eyesore is akin to likening a garbage skow to a trash can. The thing has done nothing but Continue reading
iGraphic from curbed.com showing views from 121 W. 19th St. condo.
Listed in January 2007 for $3.95 million, an unsold penthouse at 121 W. 19th St. faces a foreclosure sale on July 28, according to curbed.com and propertyshark.com.
The condo is either 1,906 square feet (propertyshark) or 2,071 (the old listing for PH-E). With $209,298 of assessed value and a lien of $3,237,096, the loft was last listed for $3.7 million until it was taken of the market in March of last year. Continue reading
Today’s issue of my free-biweekly e-newsletter covers everything from the latest predictions for the housing market to the property that Cher just unloaded.
You’ll also find the latest statistics of sales and prices in Manhattan, the stiff sentences that mortgage fraudsters have received, and my no-holds-barred critiques of condos, co-ops and townhouses that I’ve recently visited as part of my regular “Out and About” feature.
I’ve been writing Realty Digest myself for nearly seven years, and the new issue is the lengthiest and most comprehensive one to date. I hope you find it to be not only useful but also enjoyable.
And if I may be pardoned for tooting my own horn – ok, blasting it some more – I’m pleased to have been quoted on other Web sites this week or so, including WestsideIndependent.com, Crain’s and several times on Curbed.com.
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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The upper Upper West Side thought it was done with luxury high-rise problems when, in a bout of anti-Ariel fury, the community board and the City Council downzoned 51 blocks of the sprawling Manhattan neighborhood, notes Curbed.com.
Columbus Square on Manhattan's Upper West Side
But the community board left out one site: The Jewish Home Lifecare campus at 120 W. 106th St.
Alas, the retirement campus plans to swap properties with developer Joseph Chetrit. The result: Continue reading
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