Sometimes it feels like we've all been talking about tiny apartments for a long, long time. This is only reasonable. Combine the inherently compelling aspects of looking into someone else's home with the even more intriguing aspects of that place being, perhaps, largely unlivable, at least by any outside-of-the-city standards.
Kids' bedrooms are different now. Think "teen wing of the house" different, with videogame arcades, secret Harry Potter passageways, and DJ mixing stations, if you're lucky.
Here's the perfect website to fix what ills you, real-estate-wise. Schadenfreude, we have you.
The new, new state of retirement, Dawn Wotapka writes in the Wall Street Journal, sounds more like a dream vacation, or heaven-on-earth, than it does the old-world retirement communities, with boring food and more boring aesthetics.
Yes, that sounds like a parody movie trailer. But unfortunately this is a real story based on real things that happened in real life instead of brilliant satire. The Washington Post has an amazing story about how an Obama lawn sign ignited an intense legal battle in a Virginia neighborhood.
After three years on the market and one infamous tenant, a Russian buyer has scooped up the Tribeca townhouse Dominique Strauss Khan rented for $60,000 a month while under house arrest for a cool $10.5 million, which was around $600,000 more than its most recent asking price.
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A topic near and dear to our hearts—quarters are close, there—is the ongoing discussion of small apartments in urban environments. If there's one real estate thing glass-half-full people enjoy marveling over and glass-half-empty types love to judge and condem, it's tiny, tiny apartments.
Even if you win tonight's $149 million Powerball jackpot, there's no way you'd be able to buy the best apartment in New York City's tallest residential building, One57, as The New York Times reports that the 90th floor, 11,000 square-foot, $95 million duplex has already been sold to one of the building's several billionaire buyers.
The New York Post has been generally keeping us up to date on how to feel about Anthony Weiner. Today's exclusive, on the family's $3.3 million Park Avenue apartment, leads to a few more questions than answers, though.
It's not all that rare that people in urban places end up living with roommates, for at least a while. But what about having the same three roommates for nearly 20 years?
What happens to Manhattan when Brooklyn starts getting all the attention? Gather close, children, and listen to a story.
Beyond the trend of New York City residents renting out their apartments or spare rooms or even just their couches via the website Airbnb.com, there is a new trend: New Yorkers really, really enjoy doing this. Oh how they love it.
The biggest small story this week has been the news of New York City Mayor Bloomberg's competition to developers to create "micro-apartments" to be built in what's currently a parking lot in Kip's Bay. But however do you furnish such a place?
The New York Post is riding the residual waves of shock generated by Mayor Bloomberg's recent challenge to city developers to create "micro-apartments," finding a couple who live in something even smaller.
If truth be told, the most worrisome thing about the new "micro" apartments New York City Mayor Bloomberg unveiled yesterday is not their size.
Allow me to discourse about my guilty pleasure for a few moments. It is the long-running HGTV series, House Hunters. People say it's a lie. I say, who cares?
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An unknown buyer has paid over $90 million for an unfinished penthouse apartment, setting a new mark for the priciest home in New York City.
The New York Times is on this "rent is too high" thing, locating a woman who has had the good fortune to not pay a totally astronomical rent and explaining exactly how she does it.
There's a final gentrification push in the land of Williamsburg, according to The New York Post, that may make the starving artist extinct, or possibly just make the starving artist move to Bushwick.
Living alone just keeps getting more popular, with even committed couples deciding to live by themselves—albeit maybe in houses right next door to each other. We explore the phenomenon.
New York City residents and their real estate brokers have a special kind of relationship. Is it any wonder that we're entranced by these fascinating creatures who wield such power?
While the U.S. housing market continues to struggle, there is one bright spot for those who sell apartments: Russians are investing plenty of money in high-end real estate, especially in New York City.
Earlier this year, a real estate milestone was achieved in New York City when the most expensive apartment ever— a 6,700-square-foot 10-bedroom on Central Park West—was sold for the kingly sum $88 million. But there is trouble in the land of 24-karat gold bannisters and diamond-studded ice cubes.
It looks like one of the great bargains in American real estate right now: A whole town in Wyoming is going up for auction with a starting bid of $100,000.
The Upper East Side 'Mommy Madam' who has been the focus of the tabloids for days -- and in Rikers since February 22 on a charge of promoting prostitution -- may be released.
Today's breathless ode to the Brooklyn zeitgeist comes from The New York Daily News, which describes a six block stretch of Brooklyn Heights as the new real estate candy to "Wall Street execs." There goes the neighborhood.
In New York City the battle against new and old is everywhere, but its front lines could be said to be in the East Village, where "old-timers" fight tooth and nail to save their treasured businesses and buildings against the glut of Starbucks and developers.
A week after news broke that Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta was facing foreclosure, the financial giant is thinking about selling almost all of its real estate.
Susan Sarandon, already a New York City home-owner with places in Chelsea and the Village, has purchased again, this time taking advantage of the sweet real estate deals (and low interest rates) abounding in this economic time.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that didn't make sense.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that didn't make any sense.
New York City's most expensive apartment, which went on the market Thursday, is surprisingly ugly for $165,000 a month.
The New York Times has the lowdown on the latest in over-the-top, "I'm richer than you" real estate amenity— the ability park to your car on the same floor as your penthouse apartment.
The 6,800 square foot TriBeCa house is just had its price cut to $12.5 million
A walk through of the New York mayor's gaudy townhouses
Realtors say Strauss-Kahn's presence won't affect the price of his Georgetown house
The owner of 19 naked lawn ornaments is putting his house on the market
A visual tour of The Plaza Hotel's Oak Room, frequent setting for film scenes
It's a 22,000-square-foot home on a 35-acre estate
Cities nationwide saw nearly a percent increase in April from March
And he's hoping for an incident-free stay
Brokers eye her 42-room Manhattan apartment while two other mansions sit empty
Strauss-Kahn makes sure he's comfortable while he's under house arrest
The Bristol Plaza's high-end apartments come with kitchenware and, of course, maid service
Condé Nast is the first confirmed tenant at One World Trade Center
Just because foreclosures are down doesn't mean the market's recovering
These things happen
Moby goes Hollywood
Three years after the author's death, his Brooklyn Heights loft is up for sale
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