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….
Q1 2011 Manhattan Apartment Sales Map
PropertyShark has put together an interactive map, displaying closed apartment sales in Manhattan in Q4 2010.
44-Unit Apartment Building in Inwood, Manhattan Scheduled for Auction
A 44-unit apartment building located at 509 West 212th Street in Inwood, Manhattan is scheduled for auction on April 6th 2011. The lien amount is $5,288,753. The property seems to be owned by Milbank Real Estate, a California-based company that defaulted last year on a $35 million loan used to finance a portfolio of 10…
CEO Buys Most Expensive Apartment Ever in Park Avenue Building
The closing of apartment 6A at 1100 Park Avenue for $8.05 million marked the highest price ever paid for an apartment in the 18-story pre-war coop building. The buyers are Gail Pisano and Joseph Gromek, the latter identified by Bloomberg as the CEO of Warnaco Group Inc., the apparel company. According to the listing description…
Super Fast-Closing Deals in Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market
Luxury apartments that are selling in less than 20 days after being listed are anything but the norm in the Manhattan market of the last few years. Actually, according to the latest market report by Miller Samuel, the average number of days on the market for an apartment in Manhattan was 125 days in Q4…
Proposed Ultra-Luxury Conversion in SoHo Scheduled for Auction
As first reported by Forbes, the proposed luxury residential conversion at 476 Broome Street (aka 62 Wooster Street) in SoHo is scheduled for auction on March 17th. It has a lien amount of $32,309,343. According to the developer’s website, the luxury conversion would have had 2 penthouses, a total of 5 residential units, roof-top swimming…
Most expensive multifamily buildings sold in 2010 in NYC
We created an interactive map showing the most expensive multifamily buildings sold in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Click on the map to get more details on the properties. In Manhattan the top three transactions involved the rental buildings sold by Harry Macklowe. The first involves the Rivertower at 420 East 54 Street in East Midtown,…
Hilton Club at 1335 Avenue of the Americas Plagued by Foreclosures
Timeshare foreclosures usually go by almost unnoticed, as their complicated ownership structure can make them less desirable for real estate investors. However, the stunningly high occurrence of scheduled timeshare foreclosure auctions at 1335 Avenue of the Americas caught our attention. Hilton Club is the name under which Hilton Hotels started to sell timeshares on two…
Proposed Luxury Conversion in TriBeCa Scheduled for Auction
A 7-story property located at 37-39 Warren Street (aka 132-138 Church Street) in TriBeCa is scheduled for auction on March 2nd with a lien listed at $28.9 million. The property was bought for $28 million in October 2007 by Millenium New York, a Long Island property developer. According to Real Estate Weekly (via All-Business.com), the…
Mapping New York’s Adopted Rezoning Areas in 2010
The year 2010 saw ten areas in New York City have proposed rezoning approved by the City Planning Commission. Four of these are located in Manhattan, three in Queens, two in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn. PropertyShark has put together a map to provide a quick overview of the areas which experienced a zoning…
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.
Brooklyn Top 10 Commercial Deals in 2010
A study by PropertyShark has revealed the top 10 closed commercial property sales that happened in Brooklyn in 2010. Here are the top three. The priciest commercial transaction in 2010 involved the Viridian building, located at 110 Green St, that sold in December for $58.2 million. In second place was the building located in Downtown…
A peek inside the Toren Condominiums
Developer Donald Cappocia takes Multi-Housing News on a tour of one of New York’s best selling condo buildings in 2010, Toren. 110 Units were sold in the 38-story condo building in 2010 at a median sale price of $470,000. Click here to a take a look inside the building.
Top ten buildings in New York City with the most units sold in 2010
PropertyShark has identified the coop and condo apartment buildings with the most units sold (recorded) in 2010. Seven out of the top ten buildings were located in Brooklyn. The first building is Be @ 189 Schermerhorn, located in Downtown Brooklyn. 121 units have been recorded so far as sold in 2010. The median sale price…
New York City’s most expensive homes sold in 2010
PropertyShark has identified the most expensive single family homes and condo/coop apartment units sold in New York City in 2010. Here are the top three. The priciest residential property sold in 2010 was a penthouse at 15CPW in Lincoln Square that sold in December for $40 million. In second place was a condo located in…
U-Store-It Buys Fourth Storage Facility in New York
U-Store-It, LP, the real estate company focused on ownership, operation and acquisition of storage facilities, has acquired its second storage facility in Queens and its fourth city-wide, a deed recorded last week shows. This brings the company’s total investments in New York to $51,150,000. The company paid $13.6 million for 11-25 Wyckoff Avenue, a self-storage…
CIM Group Pays $469 Million for Stake in 11 Madison Avenue
A title document recorded last Thursday shows CIM Group paying $469,400,000 for 49% of 11 Madison Avenue. The massive 1,600,000 square f00t property was bought by the Sapir Organization in 2003 for $675,000,000, our records show. The deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on December 16th. However, the transfer price was undisclosed…
Q4 2010 Manhattan Apartment Sales Map
The major brokerages in New York just published their quarterly market reports on the state of the Manhattan real estate market. PropertyShark has put together an interactive map, accompanying the quarterly market report of the Corcoran Group, which displays closed apartment sales in Q4 2010. On the map, the size of the circle indicates the…
Data shows 5th year of decline in new building construction permits filed
A study on new construction permits filed in New York in the first eleven months of 2010 shows a 28% drop compared to the same period of last year. This represents the fifth year of decline in new building permits issued by the City, which total only 5,924 for the first eleven months of 2010,…
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