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Hot Property newsletter: Hot times in the real estate market

September 4, 2020

August can be depended upon for heat, but that doesn’t usually translate to the housing market. Yet, we’ve found a bundle of recent deals involving a mega musician, a model and actors. So sit back and relax while you make your way through this week’s collection. Our Home of the Week is a Pasadena residence of towering proportions. A copper mansard-style roof gives the Italian villa-style home a monument-like appearance. The two-sto...

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You can lounge and dine at a rooftop ‘lawn’ at the South Street Seaport

August 31, 2020

POSTED ON TUE, AUGUST 4, 2020BY DANA SCHULZ VIEW PHOTO IN GALLERY Photo of The Greens courtesy of The Howard Hughes Corporation Social distancing guidelines have definitely gotten restaurants to be extra creative, like The Rooftop at Pier 17 which has just opened a new dining experience where guests can book one of 28 “mini-lawns.” Called The Greens, the experience has transformed the South Street Seaport rooftop venue into pri...

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Hamptons Fall School Enrollments Tip Many NYC Families Will Not Return

June 19, 2020

Avenues: The World School launches in East Hampton as admissions spike at the Ross School and in local districts Source: Avenue Magazine Photo by Nick Quan, via Unsplash Many New York City families who escaped to the Hamptons during quarantine in March will not be returning for fall, school admissions data indicates. Avenues: The World School (no relation to this magazine), the ultra-exclusive private school with campuses in Manhattan, Ch...

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The Housing Market Around New York City Is Booming

June 18, 2020

Real-estate agents say home shoppers are looking to buy outside of the city; concerns over second wave of pandemic-related restrictions Source: NICOLE FRIEDMAN,  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, MANSION GLOBAL A home for sale in New Jersey’s Bergen County in 2015. House hunters are swarming the areas outside New York City. RON ANTONELLI/BLOOMBERG NEWS When Jacob Knoll left Manhattan last year to rent a home in New Paltz, N.Y., about a 90-minu...

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Tencent prepares its insane version of Hudson Yards in China

June 17, 2020

Net City in Shenzen would be the Chinese tech giant’s first master-planned community Tencent CEO Ma Huateng and a rendering of Net City (Wikipedia Commons) Source: The Real Deal Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent is preparing to break ground on a development in Shenzhen that can only be described as a neighborhood built from the ground up. Work is set to begin on the 21-million-square-foot project dubbed Net City later this year, accordi...

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More and more Spanish residents are dreaming of leaving the city

June 16, 2020

Source: Idealista News Photo by Eve Ji on Unsplash "A swimming pool, a garden or terrace and, most importantly, somewhere with good connectivity and the possibility of having fibre optic broadband". This may sound more like a letter to Father Christmas, but the vast majority of real estate agents have received a calls with similar wishlists during the two months that the population has been living in the state...

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As New York City Reopens, Luxury Home Contracts See a Small Jump

June 15, 2020

Manhattan saw the highest number of contracts signed and total sales since the pandemic escalated in the city 12 weeks ago The No. 1 contract signed last week was for a three-bedroom on the 70th floor at 111 West 57th Street, also known as One57. Image Source: JDS Development Source: Lucy Cohen Blatter, Mansion Global With seven contracts signed and a total sales volume of $85.275 million, last week was the strongest so far for Manhattan’s...

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Under the Brooklyn Bridge, new parkland takes shape

June 13, 2020

Source: Caroline Spivack, Curbed NY Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation/Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates courtesy of the Landmarks Preservation Commission Little-used land under the Brooklyn Bridge will soon transform into a plaza, linking acres of Brooklyn parkland and capping a years-long revamp of the formerly industrial waterfront. The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) this week approved plans by the Brooklyn Bridge Park C...

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Design Essentials | Ethical Design

June 10, 2020

Source: sothebysrealty, Sotheby's Extraordinary Living Blog Ibiza, Spain | Montse Hernandez, Ibiza Sotheby’s International Realty Good design is no longer just about aesthetics—it’s also about considering the context in which a product is made. Ethical design embraces sustainability while going beyond it to consider a product’s social impact, which includes the diversity of representation and even the treatment of employees within des...

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Inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Astounding Legacy

June 9, 2020

Marking the 153rd anniversary of the architect’s birth, AD sheds light on the work that sustains his remarkable influence Source: Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest Frank Lloyd Wright sitting for a sculpture in the 1950s at Taliesin West.Photo: Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York) On a recent Thursday, the ...

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