David Rockwell has been spending a lot of time in Madrid lately. That’s for two reasons. Rockwell Group, the architecture and design firm he founded in New York in 1984, now has a satellite office there. The city is also home to Gran Hotel Inglés, the most recent...

Since the Spanish housing collapse in 2008, the OECD reports how the real estate market is undervalued by 26%. Despite the average property prices being on the rise, the Spanish economy is currently one of the fasting growing in the EU – making a home in Spain a great...

Rental concessions—things like a month or two of free rent tacked on to a new lease, or the landlord paying for certain amenities—are no longer a thing you have to work to negotiate; they’ve become a fact of finding an apartment in New York. But even though they’ve...

One of entertainment industry’s largest and most recognizable movie studios wants to get into the transportation business. Warner Brothers announced plans Tuesday for an aerial tram that would ferry visitors to and from the Hollywood Sign. The company would pay for...

According to this week’s market reports, the median price for a Manhattan apartment dropped for the fourth straight quarter and U.S. construction spending reached a record high in May. Residential The average sales price in Manhattan dropped 4.3 percent to $2.2...

Wedged between Manhattanville and Washington Heights is Hamilton Heights, which runs from 135th to 155th streets along the Henry Hudson Parkway. Once home to the likes of Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison, and (duh) Alexander Hamilton, the neighborhood’s longstanding...

Is it a coincidence the word ‘amen’ is located inside the word ‘amenity’? When those perfectly personalized little touches of luxurious splendor are done right, smart and savvy jetsetters respond, because sometimes those little things are actually enormous, exciting...

There is a lot to see and do in Madrid in July!  The director Oscar Cabañas has recovered the libretto by Ricardo de la Vega and the music of Tomás Bretón to return to the stage the most international of the zarzuela operettas,” La verbena de la Paloma. The action...

The procession of ‘Big Heads’ is one of the highlights of Pamplona’s San Fermin fiesta in July. Photo: AFP   With summer in full swing, Spain’s events calendar is jam-packed with everything from beachside music festivals to bull runs through...

The opening of the 5.5-acre park now creates 11 acres of waterfront green space along a formerly industrial stretch. The city officially debuted the second phase of the waterfront park that’s part of the Hunter’s Point South megaproject, in Long Island City, on...