Riccardo Ravasini, Author at Rava Realty - Page 84 of 104

Can a New York a multi-million dollar property be cheap?

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The answer is a “yes” if the product in question is luxury real estate — and if you’re comparing it to property in other parts of the world.

There are a number of global cities where prices are far higher than they are in the Big Apple. Investors perceive the value in NYC offer.

And the prices differentials are pretty astounding in some cases. For example, in Monaco, the most expensive market in the world, homes average $6,200 per square foot, according ...

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A filled-in Harlem River is a developer’s dream

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New York City is perpetually starved for space for new residential and commercial developments. But one proposed undertaking would yield an additional 400 to 800 acres: filling in the Harlem River.

So goes the proposal of Charles Urstadt, former New York state housing commissioner and namesake of 1971’s Urstadt Law, which handed Gotham’s power to pass local rent laws to the state legislature. In a recent article on Crain’s New York, Urstadt argued that plugging the Harlem River would not mean ...

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Is NYC’s townhouse market undervalued?

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The price spread between townhouses and condos is widening, thanks to the explosion of luxury condos in recent years.

On a price-per-foot basis townhouses are significantly undervalued in New York City. In the West Village, a beautiful and renovated townhouse can go for $3,000 a square foot, nearby condos range from $3,750 to $4,450 a foot.

What people can get in a co-op or condo is nowhere near what you can buy, on a square-footage basis, in a townhouse.

The condo developments have ...

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$15 million and Up

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The number of sales of single-family properties in New York City at or above $15 million hit a new post-recession high over the past 12 months, with 76 closed sales at that price point recorded throughout the five boroughs.

At the current pace, $15 million-and-up sales are on track to set an all-time record in 2014, Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of appraisal firm Miller Samuel told The Real Deal Magazine.

The last time the number of deals at that threshold was ...

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Miami can compete

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Over the past quarter-century, the Miami skyline has grown at a cornfield pace, fueled largely, realtors say, by buyers from South America. This trend is more natural here than in cities like Vancouver, where mainland Chinese are big condo buyers, or Paris, where Americans, among others, trade chic pied-à-terres. After all, most Miami residents speak Spanish at home, and the metro area has the highest share of immigrant business ownership in the country, at 45 percent. This is why the ...

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How expensive can Brooklyn be?

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As of late June 2014 the five priciest listings in Brooklyn ranged from a $14 million Park Slope townhouse to the $32 million One Brooklyn Bridge Park condominium penthouse. Interestingly, the most expensive sales that actually closed in the last 12 months were at a far lower level, ranging from a $5.8 million Brooklyn Heights townhouse to an $8.7 million townhouse at 12 College Place in the same neighborhood. Therefore the current highest $ listings seem to be at wishful ...

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