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The City Needs More Housing But New Development Approvals Plummets

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In July, Zero buildings and zero units were approved for construction in Manhattan, and only 10 buildings and 279 units were approved for construction across all of New York City. Manhattan’s president, Mark Levine, highlighted this as a crisis and expressed the need to address the issue. 

The likely reasons for this decline are high-interest rates and the expiration of the crucial tax incentive program 421a, which provided tax breaks to developers who included affordable units in ...

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Miami dev site prices nosedive

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Miami developer Harvey Hernandez faced a tough market competition with out-of-state high-rise builders for land deals in the city last year. However, the sellers’ attitude towards development sites has significantly changed, and they are now willing to negotiate 5 to 10 percent price discounts and better terms. Land prices in Miami’s urban core fell after the second quarter of last year due to a dwindling inventory of suitable sites for condominium and multifamily developments and rising interest rates, ...

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