Is the Average Texas Home Size On Par with Rising Prices?
The “sizzling” Texas real estate market made news across local and nationwide industry publications this summer, and developers could not be happier. Sales and prices are soaring and there’s plenty more demand for new housing to keep them busy for years to come. But are average home buyers getting what they pay for in terms of…
Homebuyers: Check What Loan You Qualify for before Shopping for a Home
Matthew Garland is Director of New Development at Quontic Bank and he shared with us valuable advice for homebuyers seeking financing. According to Matthew, it is highly important to know what loan you qualify for before you actually go shopping for a home. He reminds us that the currently low interest rates mean more home…
Real Estate Is at the Heart of the Second Harlem Renaissance
A second Harlem Renaissance is underway, this time driven by an influx of money and a middle class population eager to escape the hectic life and ridiculous housing prices in the rest of Manhattan. So we decided to take a look at what the neighborhood has to offer in terms of homes and single out…
PropertyShark at the NYC Real Estate Expo and HGAR’s Members Day
Here’s where you can meet and talk with the PropertyShark team in the upcoming weeks! We look forward to seeing you at these events so don’t forget to register and stop by our booth, you have all the info you need below: 8th Annual NYC Real Estate Expo The Expo brings together real estate pros for…
Who Lives Largest? The Growth of Urban American Homes in the Last 100 Years
It’s a common grievance by now that living quarters in the most popular cities across the nation have been shrinking, with people paying ever more money just to save some time on their daily commute. In fact, a recent analysis found newly built rentals span the least number of square feet since before the market…
Historic Home in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights District Heads for the Auction Block
Historic home in the Hamilton Heights District of Manhattan is scheduled for auction with a lien amount of $249,338. Auction date: October 5th, 2016. Foreclosures in Manhattan are not a common sight – only 25 homes were scheduled for the first time in Q2 2016, according to our recent report on New York City’s foreclosure market. As…
PropertyShark’s NYC Client Appreciation Party Is Finally Here
You’re all invited to an event that has become a tradition among NYC’s real estate pros: PropertyShark’s Client Appreciation Party and Networking Event is right around the corner! 2016 brought so many achievements to PropertyShark including a website that works twice as fast, exploding traffic, the launch of the new redesigned homes for sale section to…
Find and Research Foreclosures in Long Island
For investors, brokers, and other real estate professionals looking to find and research distressed properties in Long Island, PropertyShark provides daily updated foreclosure listings in both Nassau and Suffolk, plus all the data you need to assess them. Here are just some of the reasons to choose PropertyShark as your provider of foreclosure listings: You…
Top 20 NYC New Projects Proposed So Far in 2016
The city is ablaze with new developments in what’s been called by Forbes the best time to be a real estate developer since 2007. The level of investment opportunity in Queens has attracted the spotlight, and in the first 7 months of 2016, the total square footage of proposed development space counted over 3.5M square feet, almost…
The Fabulous Upper West Side Real Estate Story
To take away: the most expensive home ever sold here was a penthouse fit for a king: price paid – $88M! the largest home is a century-old 11,500-square-foot mansion next to Riverside Park the UWS is one of the neighborhoods with the most permanent residences, percentage-wise: only 55% of all housing units are rentals , a…
Chelsea Penthouse Is Up for Auction – Lien Amount $800K below Market Value
2,300-square-foot Chelsea penthouse in a modern condo building goes to auction on August 24, with a lien of $3.8M. The auction will take place at 2:15 PM at 60 Centre Street, Room 130, New York City. Manhattan foreclosures are a rare bird, and penthouses up for auction even more so. One such uncommon case is that…
PropertyShark Seller Leads: Turn Them into New Listings and Clients
Introducing Seller Leads PropertyShark traffic has exploded over the past couple of years and in 2016 we exceeded 2.6 million visits per month. A good share of these visitors are home buyers and sellers, who turn to PropertyShark for research. We found that one of their main needs is getting a property value estimation. While we…
Long Island City Real Estate: Old Is Cool, New Is Better
To cut things short, if there’s one thing to take away about real estate in Long Island City, it’s actually four: great-looking glass towers are popping up everywhere, favoring comparison between the Hunters Point waterfront and that of Western Brooklyn; however, the priciest home ever sold here, for $3.4M, is significantly cheaper than its equivalent in Williamsburg,…
Top 10 Best-Selling Buildings in Brooklyn Mid-Year 2016
So maybe Manhattan does dominate every single top ten best-selling list covering the 5 boroughs, but exciting new developments and older, yet successful residential projects are everywhere in New York. In particular, Brooklyn, the second real estate market of the city, has a lot to show for itself, in terms of both realty investment and the steady climb…
Newly Released Commercial Market Reports: Gain Insight on All Asset Classes in NYC
Building on the success of our newest product – market reports that you can brand with your info – we’re happy to announce the addition of commercial market reports, which means you now have access to comprehensive reports on all 5 major asset classes in New York City. We initially started with the residential and…
Water Mill Home Goes to Auction with a Lien of “Just” $2.6M
A two-story, 6,600 sq ft home in northwest Water Mill is scheduled for auction on August 25th 11:15 PM, at the Southampton Town Hall, with a mortgage lien of $2.6M. Even the exclusive Hamptons community occasionally opens up a back door for new residents to enjoy its lifestyle. For the more budget-minded real estate shopper,…
Top 10 Best-Selling NYC Buildings Mid-Year 2016
At the peak of the real estate season, it’s a good time to take a look back at the first half of 2016 and see which NYC new developments and older constructions across the five boroughs have fared the best. In a market that continues to show healthy yearly growth rates and to favor sellers, according to the…
5 Tips for Marketing Your Commercial Listings
It’s a tough market out there for commercial property professionals: NYC rents for commercial properties have flattened out during the first half of 2016, after a long period of sustained growth. In spite of a 10% availability rate in Manhattan office space, according to Colliers, prices remain high enough that a mainstream of businesses are…
Tips on Finding Rental Properties for Investment with Alexander Aguilar from Cash Flow Diaries
We’re happy to present to you Alexander Aguilar, a real estate investor who also blogs on Cash Flow Diaries about his journey to reaching financial freedom by investing in turnkey rentals (properties that don’t need any fixing and come with a screened tenant, plus property management). He started blogging as a way to track his own…
US Apartment Sizes Shrinking: The Smallest Apartments Aren’t in NYC, but Tucson, AZ
The housing trend that made Manhattan and San Francisco known as hotbeds of tiny living has picked up steam all across the country in recent years. According to a recent study by RENTCafé*, an apartment search website and our sister company, the average size of a new apartment has fallen to 934 square feet in…
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