Manhattan’s median sales price of $980,000 rose 7.7 percent during the second quarter, even as the number of sales dropped 20 percent to 2,674, according to real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel. Listing inventory during the three-month period was 5,730, up 1.3 percent, while the absorption rate rose 25.5 percent to 6.4 months.
One of the main factors shifting the balance slightly in buyers’ (especially in the luxury segment) favor is the influx of new condo inventory in Manhattan. There ...

The $361 million the Moinian Group raised through a bond offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in May was the greatest confirmation of a growing trend in New York real estate financing: New York-based developers are increasingly looking to Israel’s debt market for funding.

Tapping the small-but-sophisticated corporate bond market —valued at $80 billion last year— is not an entirely new idea. It started nearly a decade ago as a novel approach for raising cash but has gained serious momentum ...

The Wynwood neighborhood, a local arts mecca and one of Miami’s hippest neighborhoods, was once known as the “golden gate” for Hispanic immigrants. A melting pot of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Haitians, African-Americans, Nicaraguans and Dominicans, Wynwood was once crippled by a bad image and a deteriorating economy.  But back in the 1950s, Wynwood — originally spelled Wyndwood — was home to non-Hispanic white professionals and several factories including Coca-Cola and Garrett Construction. Jobs were plentiful. In the 1960s came Interstate ...

For the 12th consecutive month, Brazilians topped the list of foreigners searching the website of the Miami Association of Realtors for local real estate deals. Rounding out the top five for May were prospective buyers from Colombia, Canada, Venezuela and Argentina, according to the realtors’ association. In the U.S., the greatest web searches came from California, Georgia, Texas, New York and Illinois.

Miami is the third most popular city in the country for foreigners to search (after New York and LA) ...