The positive trend in the rental market continues, in some cases we are witnessing prices that are higher than the pre-crash period.
For example, a studio in a West Village doorman building was rented at $3,100 last month. The same apartment went for $2,950 in the summer of 2007.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has approved the first historical law that puts a limit on real estate tax increases. Taxes will be allowed to go up to 2% or the rate of inflation.
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The last market report produced by the appraisal firm Miller Samuel, on the second quarter 2011, tells us that Manhattan is “hiccupping” but overall trending positively.
This is true especially if we consider some areas of the city that achieved the status of “evergreen”, meaning they reached their full splendor and are growing steadily. An example is the Upper West Side.
The sales volume is more or less the same as last year, but there was indeed a 10.7% increase ...

Papers report that Jennifer Aniston has finally closed on her property purchase!
After visiting many buildings, from the Financial District to Chelsea, the famous actress fell in love with 229 W 12th Street, in the West Village.
She bought two apartments: a penthouse, for $4.95 million (roughly 16% below the asking price), and a one bedroom on the lower floor, for $2.1 million.
The celebrities are coming back to invest in top tier New York real estate, after the gloomy ...

Once upon a time there was the Great Recession, and many development companies had to change strategy. Instead of building new condos to sell the units immediately on the market, they switched to renting a good portion of these apartments out after the crisis hit.
This is the case of Olive Park, in Williamsburg, where 32 out of 87 units were rented right after the Lehman Brothers crash.
Lately instead, we witness the sale of these very same apartments. The ...

Recently the New York Post has reported a new mind boggling deal at The Plaza Residences: $48 million for an apartment of about 600SF.
This is the highest price ever paid for a condo unit in New York City.

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The newly found volume of sales is positively affecting the mortgage industry.
When the market basically stalled two years ago and prices went down, the benchmarks necessary to appraisers for a solid valuation of the apartment were scarce. Therefore sometimes the ...

In the mid 2000s, particularly the period between 2003 and 2008, the hurry to buy New York City real estate was almost comparable to the California Gold Rush of the mid 1800s. As we know, everything then changed at the end of the last decade; after the 2008 financial crisis the real estate market tanked.
Nowadays, after a period of stabilization, there are several trends to note: home values are not declining anymore and had a tendency to go up ...