by Alana Mayman | 5/13/13 Source:#mce_temp_url# You may pride yourself on your Wikipedia-like knowledge of the best/worst rooftop bars and smartest/dumbest places to hail a taxi at rush hour, but you’re not really a New Yorker until you pass through the … Continue reading →

First Comes Spring, Then First Quarter By: Irina Faifman, Associate at Rakita Realty “What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems Today, April 17 marks the 11-day countdown to head down to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden … Continue reading →

by Teri Karush Rogers | 3/19/13 – 2:06 PM Q. We are thinking of buying a co-op that was renovated by the sponsor. It’s a middle-of-the-road renovation that isn’t really our style but we’re prepared to live with it for … Continue reading →

By Amanda Fung April 8, 2012 5:59 a.m. Last week, Michelle Lynn and her husband went into contract on a $360,000 alcove studio apartment on East 57th Street, near the river. The couple, who live upstate, had originally planned to … Continue reading →

By Marc Santora; Publishe in New York Times Feb 10, 2012 WHILE the economy remains stubbornly sluggish and home sales nationwide continue to sag, Manhattan’s real estate market has largely stabilized, with apartments in some neighborhoods selling for prices not … Continue reading →

WSJ, NY REAL ESTATE RESIDENTIAL JANUARY 31, 2012 By CORRIE DRIEBUSCH Most New Yorkers see the city’s venerable brownstones as architectural portals to the past. Architect Bill Peterson designed his condo in an East Village brownstone to include a folding … Continue reading →

Uli Seit for The New York Times A beach in Southampton, empty now but not in six months. By SUSAN STELLIN Published: January 20, 2012 FRIGID winter temperatures have just arrived in the Northeast, and beach-ready bodies are thousands of … Continue reading →

The Real Deal on the town: January 18, 2012 02:30PM By Leigh Kamping-Carder The Sheffield sales team (click image for slide show) January is barely half over and already those New Year’s resolutions seem like a distant memory. But for the … Continue reading →

By JOSH BARBANEL, WSJ Jan 11, 2012 If you live in Flushing or Bayside or Bay Ridge, you are used to yawning at news of the triumphs and excess of the Manhattan luxury market. But now owners in the other … Continue reading →

From downturn to turndown for condominiums and co-ops (NYT) December 30, 2011 @ 12:38 PM Just as the downturn is over, New York City condominium and co-op boards welcomed a new real estate phenomenon, the turndown. The financial scrutiny for … Continue reading →