Market Insight
As we enter November, New York City is experiencing peak and near-peak fall foliage. Days are growing shorter, and daylight saving time will take effect this Sunday, November 3, when clocks will turn back one hour. Another fall tradition that New Yorkers look forward to is the NYC Marathon. Altho...
Sunken living rooms are a distinctive feature in many New York apartments, with origins dating back to 1927 when Kansas-born architect Bruce Goff introduced the idea in an Art Deco-style house with a “conversation pit.” This design element, which had never been seen before, quickly gained popular...
Tall and slender, finials are employed in architecture to add drama to the edges or tops of buildings. Imagine a spear sticking straight up out of the ground, or an uncarved totem pole, or even a periscope without a twist at the top. They are the exclamation points of architecture!
During spooky season, creaking floorboards and ominous shadows as a result of poor lighting are commonplace in staged haunted houses. But in some fixer upper homes, such features are in place beyond Halloween night. Some of these homes need repairs simply to be made inhabitable — see a recently a...
The Calvert Villas
is a six-story, ten-unit boutique condominium located on a tree-lined block at 624 New York Avenue in Brooklyn's Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The building is part of a two-building development called The Calvert Collection, designed by Palette Architecture and developed by Kings...
Manhattan Sales:
For the week ending October 25, 2024, $333,168,510 worth of transactions across 184 condo, condop, and cooperative deals were recorded
95 condo sales came to an aggregate price of $194,495,769
Four condop sales came to an aggregate price of $9,928,241
85 co-op sales came to...
In the wake of a 2017 rezoning, Midtown East has experienced a residential building boom of new development condominiums. These homes are located in excellent proximity to Midtown offices, public transportation, and popular restaurants and retail, but are situated so as to offer some respite from...
With early voting underway and Election Day fast approaching on November 5, 2024, voters are preparing to choose between two presidential candidates with fundamentally opposed visions on nearly every issue.
While the national stage is set for major decisions, the Upper West Side has its own intr...
In an age of sleek, open-plan modernism, prewar apartments offer a refreshing return to the charm of elegant traditional design. While new construction sometimes attempts to evoke this classic style with high ceilings, hardwood floors, generous spaces, and defined rooms, many modern interiors sti...
Between restoration to a full business week and a large number of high-priced contracts signed during this time, the New York real estate market experience a week-over-week bump from October 21-27, 2024. It was a particularly good time for new development penthouses, which accounted for four of M...
Purchasing a home is both incredibly exciting and often a stressful endeavor. But finding a home in “the city that never sleeps” has all the added excitement and stress to give you bouts of insomnia. In addition to being a fast-paced housing market with what seems to be ever-rising prices, there ...
While legal basement apartments are rare in New York City, garden-level apartments are much more common and often come with appealing built-in features at competitive prices. In this article, we define what garden-level units are, examine their key advantages and potential drawbacks, and spotligh...
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