9 West 70th Street After Collapse, Locksmith Asks $12 M.By: Max AbelsonPublished: September 8, 2009. the New York ObserverManhattan real estate is an extreme thing. One morning the entire facade of a vacant five-story Tribeca walk-up will crumble, and four months later that building’s owner will put his Central Park brownstone on the market for […]
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Friends, As the New York Times reported last week, my wife and I had success removing a supposed rent-control tenant from the parlour floor of our townhouse. Click on this link to see the article. As you know, I often extol the benefits of buying a townhouse that has rent-stabilized or rent-control tenants. The price […]
Continue reading →(Part Three of Three) “Now I will just mention just a word or two about Harlem. It’s a big place, and I started to do a survey there as well. I do six zip codes. This year, there was one closing for a house we sold for $2.575M. It was the highest in about, I […]
Continue reading →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 […]
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