Roxana Baiceanu
Roxana is an associate editor with Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive. In the past, she also created content for PropertyShark and Point2Homes’ blog pages. She also has 5 years of experience as a marketing copywriter.
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…
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.
Brooklyn Luxury Real Estate Market at Four-Year High
While the total number of residential sales in Brooklyn decreased slightly in 2011 (1%) compared to 2010, Brooklyn’s luxury market (residential sales of $1 million and above) registered a four-year record in 2011. There were 742 such transactions in 2011. This figure represents a 35% increase over 2010 (550), while compared to 2007 (775) it…
NYC Top Foreclosed Apartments by Lien Amount in 2011
There were a total of 1,602 residential properties scheduled for auction in the first three quarters of 2011, 65% down from the same period in 2010. Among the analyzed property types, the number of apartments (co-op and condo units) comprised 52% of the foreclosures, while two-family dwellings accounted for 26% and the single-family residences for…
Brooklyn Luxury Real Estate Market at Three-Year High
More good news has come out about Brooklyn’s real estate market after two of its neighborhoods ranked among New York City’s most expensive neighborhoods and the borough posted the lowest rate of lis pendens ending up at auction. PropertyShark analyzed the activity in Brooklyn’s luxury market (residential sales of $1 million and above) and the…
Q2 2011 Brooklyn Apartment Sales Map
Check out our new interactive map showing closed apartment sales in Brooklyn that took place in the second quarter of 2011. On the map, the size of the circle indicates the number of sales in the building and the color indicates the price per square foot. For more details about the sold units in the…
Q1 2011 Brooklyn Apartment Sales Map
The Corcoran Group recently released their quarterly market report covering closed apartment sales (condos and coops) in Brooklyn for Q1 2011. PropertyShark has put together an interactive map showing the sales that closed and were recorded in the first quarter of 2011. The size of the circle indicates the number of sales in the building…
10 biggest commercial NYC transactions in Q1 2011
PropertyShark has put together a list of the top 10 closed commercial property sales that happened in New York City in the first quarter of 2011. Here are the top three. 666 5th Avenue The priciest commercial transaction in Q1 2011 involved the retail condominium located at 666 Fifth Avenue that sold in March for…
NYC Top 10 Residential deals closed in Q1 2011
A study by PropertyShark has revealed the top 10 closed residential property sales that happened in New York City in the first quarter of 2011. Here are the top three. 768 5th Avenue The priciest residential transaction in Q1 2011 involved the 6,000 sqft condo at The Plaza, that sold in March for $48 million….
NYC Top 10 Commercial Deals in February 2011
The priciest commercial transaction in February 2011 involved the office building located at 600 5th Ave, which sold for $165,000,000.
Q4 2010 Brooklyn Apartment Sales Map
The Corcoran Group recently released their quarterly market report covering closed apartment sales (condos and coops) in Brooklyn for Q4 2010. For a visual perspective, we have put together an interactive map showing the sales that closed and were recorded in the fourth quarter of 2010. The size of the circle indicates the number of…
The Lucky Break of Rent-Stabilization
An article in The New York Times talks about rent-stabilized apartments and the industry built around the decision of whether or not to buy tenants out. Matthew Haines, the founder of PropertyShark, shared his personal experience from when he was a landlord himself. Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/realestate/06cov.html.