For several years, sellers have been calling the shots but times they are a changing and so are their mindsets. During the first quarter of the year, the number of sales in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens jumped 24 percent year-over-year, from 7,365 in 2016 to 9,162 in 2017. And listings discounts — which increased in every sector of the market — helped drive the sales activity.
While price cuts can be painful for sellers especially if they watched the high ...

Miami has attracted a lot of pre-construction condo flippers — i.e. institutional investors — because the city’s real estate, particularly near the waterfront, has seen an explosive construction boom after the housing bust. Today, this boom has created a supply problem and condo flippers have contributed to an excess of unfinished buildings.
Take Brickell for example. Among the newest condo projects is Bond Brickell, a tower with 328 units that was completed last August. StatFunding analyzed the Brickell condo area ...

In 2002, Carnegie Management converted a former piano factory on the main commercial drag at 112 Lincoln Avenue into a 90-unit rental with features seen in trendier locales, such as a rooftop deck and chic restaurant.
Since the Clock Tower opened, real estate investment in the South Bronx area has exploded — rising from about $1.9 million in 2003 to about $111 million in 2016. Over the same period, the average sale price has spiked from roughly $265,000 to roughly ...