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…
Chart of the week: NYC most expensive homes (2005-2012)
How much is not too much for certain New Yorkers when it comes to buying a home? $30M, $40M, $50M? Close…but still far away. At PropertyShark.com we looked at the highest price tags put on residential homes sold each year since 2005, and we’re ready to share the findings with you in our weekly chart….
New Business and Retail Interactive Map for Manhattan. Brooklyn next.
As first reported by The Real Deal, PropertyShark has launched a while back a new business and retail mapping tool covering New York City. Currently, our map covers all Manhattan’s businesses and retail stores and will soon provide those interested with a fast visual grasp of NYC’s entire business landscape. If before, brokers and real…
Chart of the week: Tallest NYC residential towers by borough
NYC renters with “high aspirations” (literally!), we invite you to have a look at our chart of the week, featuring the tallest residential towers in each borough in NYC. Unfortunately, the limit is not really the sky, but somewhere around 870 feet or 76 floors high. In Manhattan, at least. 870 feet is how high…
NYC Homes: Two Centuries of Architecture
As America was celebrating last Friday, June 8th, the 145th would-be birthday of its most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, at PropertyShark we turned our attention toward what represents almost two centuries of home architecture in New York City. A 2012 walk through the city’s most prominent historic districts — Greenwich Village, Brooklyn Heights – still…
Weekly chart: Top 10 Manhattan neighborhoods by office space
It’s Manhattan, it’s morning, and it’s time to go to the office. In case you were wondering what neighborhoods devote the largest total areas of office space to the working crowd in Manhattan, here is our weekly chart to consider: There’s no doubt about number 1 — Midtown Manhattan, New York’s largest commercial district and…
Central Park views still worth their price
How much more would you pay for having Manhattan’s most prominent patch of grass in your „front yard”? This might still sound out of place to some, but last year home buyers considered it worth paying a median sale price premium of 118% for living in one of the condo or coop units bordering Central…
Top 10 NYC Neighborhoods with the Biggest Stock of Rental Units
For those needing an extra helping hand with the, often daunting, process of finding a rental unit in New York City, here’s a map to consider. It doesn’t only show you what neighborhood to go to in order to find the most rental units, but the colors can help you envisage the landscape in terms…
Top 10 Most Viewed NYC Properties on PropertyShark
Each and every one of us hopes that sometime in the not-too-distant future the word ‘recession’ will be buried deep in our memory, but unfortunately, that day has not come yet.
Q1 2012 Brooklyn Apartment Sales Map
Our quarterly map displaying apartment sales in Brooklyn is ready to reveal the state of the market in the first quarter of 2012. On the map, the size of a circle indicates the number of sales in that building and the color indicates the price per square foot. For more details about the sold units…
Most Expensive NYC Neighborhoods in Q1 2012
Tribeca and Soho were again the priciest NYC neighborhoods in Q1 2012, with median sale prices of $2,315,000 and $1,950,000 respectively. However, if we look at median price per square foot, the two neighborhoods were surpassed by the West Village with $1,592/Sq Ft and Midtown with $1,424/Sq Ft. Brooklyn had two neighborhoods in the top…
Commercial Transactions in New York City up 52% Y-o-Y
Q1 2012 was the fourth consecutive quarter in which the commercial real estate market in New York City accounted for more than $4 billion in sales ($4.98 billion), recording a 52% Y-o-Y increase. In terms of commercial transactions, the 849 sales closed in Q1 2012 were up by 25% over the first quarter of 2011…
Top 10 NYC Buildings with Most Units Sold in Q1 2012
The first quarter of 2012 saw The Edge edge ahead once again (pun intended) as the building with the most units sold – as was the case taking 2011 as a whole. 4 buildings were in a tie with the same number of units sold, thus meaning that the “top 10” contained in fact 13…
Continental Plaza in Hackensack Scheduled for a Foreclosure Auction
Continental Plaza, a three-tower office complex located on 401 Hackensack Avenue in Hackensack (Bergen County), is scheduled for a foreclosure auction. The lien amount is $101.9M. According to a North Jersey.com article that dates back to May 27th, 2010, the interest-only mortgage was initiated in 2004 but could not be refinanced in September of 2009,…
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