NYC Flood Zone Map and Hurricane Evacuation Zones
With hurricane Sandy looming over New York ‘s coastal lines, you are probably wondering how safe you and your property are from being hit. PropertyShark would like to help you determine if you live in a high flood-risk area by making available to everyone the NYC FEMA Flood Zone map and Hurricane Evacuation Zones map….
The Most Expensive Zip Codes in NYC (Hint: It’s not 10065!)
It’s hard to picture almost any US top-10 list without New York City somewhere in there. The most expensive US zip codes list compiled annually by Forbes Magazine makes no exception. In fact, Upper East Side’s 10065 heads their list this year, securing the coveted #1 for the first time. But is 10065 indeed the…
NYC Commercial Sales Reached Four-Year Peak
In Q3 2012 the segment with the most encouraging activity continued to be the office spaces, bringing $3.66 billion in sales, up 22% quarter-over-quarter.
Newcomer in the Top-10 Most Expensive NYC Neighborhoods: Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn
As home sales and median sale prices across NYC have continued to inch up in Q3 2012, Brooklyn is pulling some aces from its sleeve–Manhattan Beach has secured the #4 place in the list of the most expensive NYC neighborhoods PropertyShark completed for this quarter. Median sale prices in Manhattan Beach have spiked at 143%…
Apartment Building and Townhouse Developments Kicking into High Gear?
Our friends from Rent Cafe, one cool online apartment renting place, are letting us know that work on 260,000 apartment buildings and townhouse developments might be set to start this year. They’ve created a nifty infographic which illustrates how the new generation of Echo Boomers (the children of Baby Boomers) might be about to rattle…
NYC Foreclosure Auction Postponed 23 Times
Settling a foreclosure case in the NYC courts can take a surprisingly long time, sometimes even more than 6 years. A PropertyShark in-house analysis based on our foreclosure data indicates that certain NYC homes in distress have had their auction postponed more than 20 times. A postponed foreclosure auction can give homeowners more time to…
Most Expensive Homes in Chicago
The luxury home market seems to have been exploding not only in New York City but in Chicago as well. As listings priced as high as $32 million have been redefining the high end of the Chicago home market, at PropertyShark we compiled a list of the priciest home sales of each year since 2006…
Second-home market in the Hamptons – Infographic
It’s no surprise that 42% of all Hamptons vacation homes are owned by New Yorkers, and more precisely, 35% are owned by Manhattan residents.
Most Expensive Homes in Staten Island (2005-2012)
Staten Island’s luxury home market has some nice figures to show for the 2005-2012 period. Two transactions coming close to $4 million signal that the area, and more specifically the upscale neighborhood Todt Hill, has real estate appeal for the wealthy. In the boom year of 2007, the 7,582 sqft home on 29 High Point…
Queens’ most expensive homes (2005-2012)
News about estates selling at record-breaking prices in New York is almost exclusively linked to Manhattan, and occasionally to Brooklyn. But a blockbuster $5.1 million sale in the upscale neighborhood of Neponsit has recently put Queens on the luxury real estate map of New York. It was hailed as the most expensive home ever sold…
Westbury’s Mall at The Source Is Scheduled for Auction
The Mall at The Source in Westbury, NY is scheduled for auction at the end of this month with a lien amount of almost $142 million, PropertyShark data indicates. The mall defaulted on its $124 million mortgage in 2009 when several of its major tenants — Fortunoff, Circuit City, and Steve and Barry’s — closed…
Top Home Lenders in NYC
Who finances your home mortgage loan? If it’s Wells Fargo Bank, learn that you’re with the biggest home lender in NYC, PropertyShark data provided exclusively for Crain’s New York indicates*.
Chart of the Week: Priciest NYC Office Buildings in Q2 2012
There was a 7% increase in office building sales in NYC in Q2 2012 over the previous quarter, PropertyShark’s commercial real estate quarterly report shows. This accounted for $2.83 billion in volume, which was slightly more than what Q1 2012 realized ($2.52 billion). A higher number of transactions compensated for the fact that prices paid…
The Kardashians and the Trumps Top PropertyShark’s Searches by Property Owner
Celebrities and the real estate sector usually make quite a hot pair. How hot? It depends if you are on the East Coast or West Coast, and if you prefer Hollywood to the business world. At PropertyShark we were quite curious to see what names most people were running owner searches for, and the results…
Top 10 NYC Home Sales in Q2 2012
What do you think you might find at the high end of NYC’s residential market in Q2 2012? The answer might not be surprising– it’s mostly luxury co-ops in Manhattan, making up half of the top-10 priciest NYC homes sold in spring. What might surprise you instead is to find out that this quarter recorded…
Q2 2012 Brooklyn Apartment Sales Map
The areas with the most intense sales activity this quarter were Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, and Downtown Brooklyn.
Chart of the Week: NYC Home Sales in Q2 2012
It looks like more New Yorkers found a new home in the second quarter of 2012. A glance at PropertyShark‘s weekly chart shows rising trends in both number of sold properties and median sales price. There were 24% more homes sold in NYC in Q2 2012 compared to Q1 2012, while the median sales price–$485,000–also…
Chart of the Week: Top 10 Largest Homes in Los Angeles
If you live in NYC or any other city where very large home spaces are rather scarce, we won’t think anything less of you if you skipped this week’s chart. This time at PropertyShark, we searched for the 10 largest homes in Los Angeles by building square footage and watched numbers go from 28,222sqft to…
Congratulations! Media Partners Gain Important Awards
NAREE (National Association of Real Estate) 62nd Annual Journalism Awards took place last week in Denver, CO, and much to our excitement, we saw several of our media partners being recognized on quite a few occasions for their excellence in writing, reporting, and editing stories in the real estate field. So let us congratulate The…
Chart of the week: Brooklyn’s most expensive homes (2005-2012)
If you’re interested in expensive homes featured in slideshows and Brooklyn, PropertyShark’s chart of the week provides you the perfect combination of the two. If last week we crowned this $88M pad as the most expensive home sale in Manhattan, this week we’re looking at how high home sales went in Brooklyn from 2005 to…
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