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TOP MANHATTAN BROKER’S KEY TO SUCCESS: DISCRETION

WENDY-JACKSON-_-SVP-INTERNATIONAL-SALES(New York, NY) – As New York City’s real estate market becomes flooded with “realty” TV stars and publicity-driven brokers who unabashedly put their clients on display for the world to see in the spirit of self-promotion, what is a...

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RESIDENTIAL DEALS

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Four-bedroom, 4.5-bath, 4,100 sf unit in a prewar doorman co-op; apartment has butler’s pantry and maid’s room; maintenance $9,207 per month; asking price $11.48 million; one day on the market. (Brokers: Wendy Jackson and Ben Lieblein, Nest Seekers Inte...

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TOP RESIDENTIAL AGENTS OF THE WEEK

Sources: Streeteasy.com and The Real Deal. Footnotes: Data is for closed deals filed with the city this week through Friday. The chart only includes sellers' brokers, because buyers' brokers' names are not available in city data or listings. The data does not include deals in contract. To obtain broker information, listing information was compared with sales records filed with the city. Only deals where an individual broker and address can be identified are included. As a result, private sales, ...

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WHAT $11M. BUYS: A SPACIOUS PARK AVENUE PAD, RELIEF FROM ANNOYING RELATIVES

Screen-Shot-2012-05-17-at-5.48.46-PM The 12th floor apartment at 860 Park Avenue clearly has a lot going for it—a wood-paneled dining room, fireplaces galore, a bright chef’s kitchen with a six-burner stove (four can be so limiting). But perhaps the best amenity o...

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REVEALED: A NEW LOOK FOR JDS AND PMG’S 111 WEST 57TH STREET

111-West-57th-Street-JDS-PMG-300x257 A new look is available at what will be the city’s tallest residential tower, JDS Development’s and Property Markets Group’s 111 West 57th Street. The building — which will stand 1,428 feet tall — will house 60 condominiums, 46 in the t...

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Buying Apartment Buildings in New York and Beyond in a Strategic Bet

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When Luis Rinaldini, co-founder of Groton Merchant Bankers, wanted to add New York apartment buildings to the firm’s investment portfolio in 2...

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REVEALED: INSIDE JDS AND PMG’S 111 WEST 57TH STREET

T11 he interior of JDS Development and Property Markets Group’s super-skinny 111 West 57th Street has been revealed.   The building will stand 80 stories tall when completed and include 60 residences starting at $14 million, according to New York YIMBY. The renderings show the building’s sweeping views over Central Park as wel...

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The 41 New Developments Hitting The Market This Spring

New York City real estate is booming. Beyond charts and graphs and stats, another way to gauge the strength of the market is by the sheer number of new developments launching sales or leasing in a given season. Spring 2014 was action-packed, as was the fall of 2014. And the spring of 2015 looks to be no different, with at least 40 different projects hitting the market in the coming months.  As the mercury on the thermometer climbs, so too does the degree of hot hot heat in the real estat...

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MUCH MORE SOVEREIGN WEALTH COULD BE HEADED TO NYC REAL ESTATE

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A Sovereign wealth funds made quite a splash in Manhattan real estate in 2014, with north of $2 billion in deals. But that may only be the  beginning.

growing number of government funds are looking to increase their investments in real estate...

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