Excerpts From My Presentation on the Upper West Side Townhouse Market at the Brownstone Revival Coalition Seminar on June 9, 2009 (Part Two of Three) ” We also track in a publication called “Mondays with Dexter.” How many people get that? It’s a weekly email. If you don’t get it, you can sign up in […]
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“TOWN HOUSE, DREAM HOUSE”By JOSH BARBANELPublished: June14, 2009. New York Times THE backlog of expensive Manhattan apartments and houses has begun to shrink, brokers say, after a spurt of contract signings. The list is now shorter, for example, by a six-bedroom duplex penthouse at 279 Central Park West that went into contract last week for […]
Continue reading →Friends, Please click here to see the article in yesterday’s New York Times about Vandenberg’s sale of 357 West 121st Street. At $2,575,000, it was a bit higher than other nearby sales in the last few years. However it is about half the price of our average townhouse saleprice on the Upper West Side. How […]
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“An Academic Perk “By JOSH BARBANELPublished: March 20, 2009 , New York Times MANY buyers say that jumbo mortgages are hard to come by these days. But don’t tell that to Edward R. Morrison, a law professor and economist at Columbia University, who is something of an expert on these troubled times. Last month Mr. […]
Continue reading →“The Couple Who Saved Park Slope “By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLISPublished: Sunday, April 25, 2004, New York Times Correction AppendedEVELYN AND EVERETT ORTNER are the original gentrifiers, a word whose pejorative connotations seem unfair when applied to people who have dedicated the last 40 years to the welfare of Park Slope the way others invest a lifetime […]
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