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By Cassandra Stoklosa on August 24, 2010

Manhattan’s Rental Market Now Cautiously Optimistic for Fall

After some pessimism in April and a little more optimism  in May, the rental market (well, the landlord side of it) seems to have settled into cautious cheerfulness as the summer winds down. Or at least, that’s how the folks at The Real Estate Group New York are feeling. This month, rents are up only [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on August 23, 2010

Astoria Sales Update - Maintenance Blues in Beekman Co-Op

 

 
ASTORIA—Astoria’s Piano Factory condos went rental, so what in the neighborhood is actually selling? According to reps for the building, the 36-unit Plaza 21 at 23-01 21st Avenue  is half sold. Maybe Queens buyers hate classical music? Plaza 21 also has that new Astoria look that’s so, uh, popular these days. Prices start at $312k [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on July 22, 2010

On the Market: $300K-$350K

 

In this On the market, Good Day New York’s Christal Young looks at three local properties between $300,000 and $350,000. She goes inside a Colonial in Wood-Ridge New Jersey. Then she compares it to a 1-bedroom in a new construction building on Gates Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and a studio apartment in Battery Park [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on July 20, 2010

Renter Woes: The End of Free Months and Fake Walls

 
 

Bad news for college grads moving to Manhattan: You can’t live here for under $1,300.
The Real Estate Group of New York’s latest Manhattan Rental Market Report went live on Tuesday morning, and it shows rents in July ticking up. That’s reassuring for landlords and worrisome for first-time renters. Your friends who entered the market last [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on July 15, 2010

The Fall of Temporary Apartment Walls

 
AFTER graduating from Duke University this spring, Karan Sabharwal landed a job in finance in New York City. He had a plan to make Manhattan living affordable.
He would lease a nice one-bedroom apartment, convert it to a two-bedroom space with a temporary wall and split the rent with a friend.
But when he went to check [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on June 24, 2010

Gates Keeper

 
The brand-new $200,000 luxury condo still lives in Brooklyn!
In fact, the unit is even cheaper — it’s actually $195,000. Yes, the condo is small (a 435-square-foot studio) and the building is in Bed-Stuy (well, it’s close to Clinton Hill). But this is the jaw-dropping starting price at 315 Gates Ave., a 72-unit building designed by [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on June 24, 2010

Is Bed-Stuy’s 315 Gates NYC’s Cheapest New Development?

 
Location: 315 Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Size: 72 units
Prices: Prices begin at $195,000 for a studio
Architect: Karl Fischer (with interiors by Durukan Design)
Developer: Select Holding Corp.
Sales & Marketing: The Developers Group/TREGNY
Lowdown: Straight from the mind of Karl Fischer to the Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill DMZ is 315 Gates. The building gets the Post treatment today thanks to its [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on June 23, 2010

315 Gates Merges Luxury with Affordability

 

Bed-Stuy Blog.com
I’ll be the first one to admit that I was a little sad to see them demolish the building that once stood on the corner of Gates and Bedford, because I thought it was a beautiful building and I had secretly hoped that it would be restored. These days I don’t feel so bad [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on June 21, 2010

Hipsters as Marketing Material: Billyburg’s Condos Confront the Incredulous

By William Alden
 
“People always ask about the development across the street,” broker Kevin Ferrara said, gesturing toward an empty lot out the window of a first-floor condo at 29 South Third Street in Williamsburg. “So I’m going to tell you.”
The lot, overgrown with weeds and rimmed by a chain-link fence with a barbed-wire coil, formerly [...]

By Cassandra Stoklosa on June 14, 2010

New Rental Tower Fills Tall Order

By Amanda Fung
Despite years of community opposition over its size, a financial crisis that briefly threatened to halve its height, and falling debris that rendered neighboring streets hazardous, the city’s tallest residential spire will officially open its doors in about six months.
And after all that, the 867-foot Beekman Tower is already being hailed as a [...]