New York Real Estate

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…

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…

Q1 2012 Manhattan Apartment Sales Map

If you haven’t read about it yet, our interactive apartment sales map is ready to show what parts of Manhattan had the most sales in Q1 2012 and where the priciest sales were located. On the map, the size of the circle indicates the number of sales by building while the color shows the price per square…

The Most Expensive Blocks in Brooklyn

It’s time for our third and final post covering the most expensive blocks in New York City, and this time we analyze Brooklyn. If you haven’t read the first two entries (covering the most expensive blocks in Queens and over NYC as a whole), you can do it here and here. If you look at…

The Most Expensive Blocks in NYC

Continuing the topic of our recent article that covered the most expensive blocks in Queens, it’s time to go city-wide. We could have easily entitled this post “Most Expensive Blocks in Manhattan”, since New York City’s 10 priciest blocks are all located in Manhattan. A quick glance at the Upper East Side dominates the top…

Most Expensive Blocks in Queens, New York

It might have come as a surprise to some people that, according to our latest report, the priciest block in Queens was located in Belle Harbor/Neponsit (see interactive map). The median sale price on the beach front block located between Beach 145 Street and Beach 146 Street was $2.5M. As reported by the New York…

Most Expensive NYC Neighborhoods in 2011

Tribeca and Soho reasserted their status as the top two most expensive neighborhoods in New York City in 2011, our latest analysis reveals (check out our previous analysis for Q3). With yearly median sale prices of $2,245,075 and $2,087,413 respectively, Tribeca and Soho were far ahead of the rest of the pack. The neighborhood that…

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…

Top 10 NYC Buildings with Most Units Sold in 2011

If two years ago Manhattan was dominating this list, in 2011, six out of the Top 10 Buildings with Most Units Sold were located in Brooklyn. #1. The Edge As Curbed mentioned a few months ago, sales at The Edge really took off last year. The two towers at 22 North 6th Street and 34…

Home Sales in Queens Take a Dip in 2011, But Prices Keep Up

The number of homes sold in Queens decreased slightly in 2011 with 9,128 properties changing hands, our latest analysis shows. The Y-o-Y decrease is 11%, while compared to 2006 (when the number of transactions reached a 7-year peak), the decrease is 39%. At $305,000, the yearly median sale price has stayed flat for a third…

Q4 2011 Manhattan Apartment Sales Map

The fourth quarter of 2011 has ended, so our interactive apartment sales map is ready to show which parts of Manhattan had the highest density of sales and where the priciest sales were. To better visualize it, on the map, the number of sales by building is depicted by the size of the circle while the…

Average Home Sizes in Washington D.C., Atlanta Twice As Much as in New York

The average home in New York City (all the five boroughs) is 1,124 square feet, which places the Big Apple at the bottom of the list of 20 cities in the U.S. Home owners in Washington D.C. and Atlanta enjoy almost twice as much space as New Yorkers.

Battle of New York’s Toniest Thoroughfares: Fifth vs Park Avenue

Fifth and Park avenues, the stretches between 59th and 96th streets on the Upper East Side, are two of New York City’s toniest thoroughfares, and have been battling for the crown of the city’s most expensive residential street for almost forever. Most of the time Fifth Avenue claimed the top spot.

Glenwood Management Secures $260 Million Mortgage for UWS Residential Tower

Glenwood Management secured a $260,000,000 mortgage to develop the project, property records filed with the city yesterday show.

Home sales in the Bronx down by a quarter, but the borough sees second largest condo sale ever

Home sales activity in the Bronx saw one of the worst performances in the past 6 years with only 352 closed transactions, down 26% over Q2 2011, and down 19% over the same quarter of last year.

NYC Stalled Construction Sites

Based on a list provided by the Department of Buildings, we’ve created a new map, showing stalled construction sites in New York City. You can click on the dots to see photos and information for each of the mapped properties.  According to Curbed, the number of stalled sites is dropping from its November 2010 peak,…

Cheapest Homes For Sale in New York City

A Wall Street Journal analysis of the cheapest homes in the five boroughs compiled by PropertyShark.com reveals a diverse mix of properties offered at prices lower than some pay for their monthly rent in the City.

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