Many people in the industry predicted it: the number of transactions went down quite a bit – 14.2% YoY actually to 2,560 homes sold. As you may remember, many sales were pulled into the previous quarter in order to avoid the, well known and much discussed, Mansion Tax hikes. That generated a sense of “fake” recovery and we now know for a fact it was a “fake”!
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Excluding mergers and portfolio deals, cross-border investment in the Big Apple has dropped off noticeably since the boom years, according to data from Real Capital Analytics.
Foreign buyers acquired just under $8 billion worth of commercial property in the five boroughs in 2017 and $9.5 billion last year, down from about $20.2 billion in 2015 and $15.8 billion in 2016.
“Ultimately, there’s really no way to get back to where investment was in 2015 and 2016 ...
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Spectacular views that only crime could pay for. For 43 years, inmates inside the caged rooftop recreation yard of Harlem’s Lincoln Correctional Facility could stretch their legs while luxuriating in the unobstructed sights of Central Park and the city’s sprawling skyline to the south. Now the facility is poised to close — and the jailhouse is suddenly Manhattan’s hottest piece of high-priced real estate.
The W. 110th St. (aka: Central Park North) property, opened as a prison in 1976, will be ...
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