Real Estate Trends

There’s a new app available that connects individuals with professional movers with half-empty trucks. [AT] Units at Manhattan’s first crowdfunded condo building will soon hit the market. [Bloomberg] Spike Lee officially unveiled Do The Right Thing Way in Bed-Stuy on Saturday. [BKPaper] Has Staten Island finally arrived? A slew of $1+ million sales reveal increasing interest […]

New Yorkers reveal their real estate dating deal breakers on camera. [BrickUnderground] “A fire escape should be an escape from fire; it shouldn’t be an escape from reality.” [NYT] Apartment hunting grief in five stages. [CityLab] The glass at the peak of the Empire State Building is being replaced. [WSJ] Images: Subway map (L); Fire […]

Things that you shouldn’t waste your money on. [BI] Dealing with a break-up in NYC when you share a home with your partner. [BU] The city will spend $100M to stormproof lower Manhattan. [NYDN] A $6.5M penthouse sale at the Oosten has set a record for Williamsburg. [Curbed] Bill Ackman—a.k.a. the owner of NYC’s second most expensive […]

The most expensive U.S. cities for single folks and families. [Wonkblog] Is the United Arab Emirates building a mega-mansion on the Upper East Side? The Permanent Mission of the UAE to the United Nations has just closed on two neighboring buildings worth $47.25M. [NYDN] Here’s where Red Hook and Buttermilk Channel draw their names from. [Brownstoner] The world’s […]

Not all NYC buildings bearing Trump’s name are actually owned by him. [WNYC] Russian princess Kristina Kovalenko has put her Upper East Side pad on the market for $11M. [Curbed] An underground leak at the World Trade Center complex may be coming from the river wall built to separate the site from the Hudson. [DNA Info] No need […]

Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund is selling his furniture online. [Luxury Listings] The city D.A. may go after the $85M estate of Arthur Mondella, the Red Hook maraschino cherry factory owner who also used his space as a secret pot farm. [DNA Info] FAO Schwarz and Toys “R” Us are in talks to open up a combo […]

The de Blasio administration is renegotiating the terms of the redevelopment of Willets Point, Queens. [Crain’s] Why some billionaires are bad for growth. [Wonkblog] Billionaire Ken Griffin may be buying a 220 Central Park South pad. [NYP] The mysterious cottage atop an East Village building is now in contract. [Curbed] For a good time with friends and family try […]

Bedford+Bowery polled 321 people along Bedford Avenue and found that one in three were from outside of NYC, and only one in four actually lived in the neighborhood. [BB] Ceruzzi Properties and their Chinese partner SMI USA are planning to build a $1B condo at 520 Fifth Avenue. [TRD] The world’s most “livable cities” also […]