Weekly Roundup: Rising condo taxes, foreclosure woes, price declines, ‘typical’ buyer, much more

Next week, I’ll have just one or two posts and hope that my readers have a very happy Thanksgiving.

Library is great resource for the history of your building

For $1,000 a month, an UWS apartment — uh, room or closet — can be yours!

Yesterday’s buyers in tax-abated buildings come to grips with tomorrow’s escalating costs

More folks moved to the city last year than left it for the first time in decades

A Times columnist tries out Airbnb in the city

City’s wealthy suburbs among nation’s hardest hit by foreclosures

Condos in unbuilt UES development boom as in times gone by

Pre-foreclosure filings in October down 20% from September and 39% from one year earlier

Brooklyn is friendliest borough to (wo)man’s best friend

What is the definition of ‘market value’

Nemo and Mickey join Department of Housing Preservation and Development

WestSideRag posts funny, cutting rant about broker babble

Unemployment rate ticks up, concerning at least one economist

He sees rich people for this Sun Valley listing

Fashion designer

Weekly Roundup: Rates bottom, but 2nd dip seen

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.

Handyman’s special condo goes on the market after just two years

Buyer gets a pound of metal in purchase of actor’s penthouse on Riverside Drive

Price of her childhood home, damaged by a fire, is materially lower than last sale

Comic actor moves to New Jersey for biggest yard

He won’t be living in brother’s unused Florida home or anywhere else

In new 5,000-sf home, he’ll have plenty of room for his friends

If at first. . . actor and boxing figure decide separately

Valuation firm finds that housing’s double dip is clearly