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Western Hemisphere’s Highest Rooftop Infinity Pool Coming To Extell’s Brooklyn Point, Downtown Brooklyn

February 21, 2018

Rooftop terrace, rendering by Williams New York Renderings have been revealed for the rooftop recreation terrace on top of Brooklyn Point, located at 138 Willoughby Street, in Downtown Brooklyn. Swimmers will be able to look over the East River to Downtown and Midtown Manhattan, and once complete, it will be the highest residential infinity pool in the Western Hemisphere. The tower rises up 720 feet, nearly a hundred feet higher than the Marin...

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Two rediscovered Dalí paintings up for sale for first time

February 21, 2018

Salvador Dali's, Maison pour Erotomane. Photo: Sotheby's Two rediscovered masterpieces by Salvador Dalí will go under the hammer for the first time later this month. Both works were sold directly to an Argentine noblewoman, the Countess de Cuevas de Vera by the artist in the 1930s and have remained in the family’s private collection ever since. But now the pair are to be sold at auction by London’s Sotheby’s in the Surrealist Art ...

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In Midtown West, 258 affordable apartments up for grabs from $613/month

February 13, 2018

TF Cornerstone’s massive development will begin accepting applications for its affordable rentals Courtesy of Arquitectonica. TF Cornerstone’s massive development at 606 West 57th Street is getting ready to launch the lottery for 258 affordable apartments within the 1,028-unit project. The city’s Housing Connect website will begin accepting applications tomorrow, giving New Yorkers earning either 40, 60, or 120 percen...

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San Pedro Public Market’s design team includes High Line co-creator

February 13, 2018

The $150-million project will totally overhaul the waterfront site The designer of New York’s High Line linear park has signed on to the upcoming San Pedro Public Market project. Curbed has learned that High Line designer James Corner Field Operations will be heading up landscape design and master planning for the entire Public Market project. Rapt Studio, a California-based studio known for building stylish brick-and-mortar offices f...

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The purchase of luxury housing is unstoppable

February 9, 2018

In Spain, the purchase of luxury housing is constantly increasing and also very much in demand. The largest number of business deals take place in Madrid and Barcelona because many clients seek high-standing and luxurious properties either in the centre of the city or in exclusive housing estates. This fact does not surprise us because some months ago we wrote an article aboutthe good times that luxury housing was living through in Spain....

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8 ways to help the homeless in New York City

February 7, 2018

In recent years, as the city grapples with a lack of affordable housing, New York’s homeless population has soared. According to a 2017 report by Coalition for the Homeless, which has been fighting the city’s homeless crisis since 1981, more than 62,000 men, women, and children currently sleep in city shelters every night—that’s a 79 percent increase in the demand for shelters over the past decade. As the report states, “Extreme incom...

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Spain launches new ‘low-cost’ high speed train between Madrid and Barcelona

February 7, 2018

The joys of speeding across Spain’s vast countryside in a bullet train will soon become a more affordable pleasure with the announcement that RENFE are developing a low-cost alternative. Íñigo de la Serna, Spain’s minister of Publics Works unveiled plans to launch a new service in 2018, that will initially run between Madrid and Barcelona. The route, which will be called the EVA, would begin with five trai...

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Spain Enjoying Record Tourism, Foreign Buyer Activity in 2017

February 5, 2018

It's turning out that 2017 is becoming a very good year for Spain's property market, as JLL is now forecasting this year will be the eighth consecutive year of foreign buyer property growth. Overseas buyers invested €888 million ($1.04b USD) on Spanish properties in the first half of 2017, smashing last year's record of €330 million ($353m USD) for the same period with total invest...

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LA climbs to No. 2 in global real estate investment behind London

February 1, 2018

Los Angeles has topped New York in global real estate investment in 2017, according to a new JLL report, making it the No. 1 U.S. city. L.A., which jumped one position from the previous report, had investments of $23 billion last year. That was $2 billion better than New York, which was bumped to third, from the top spot in in 2016. The report listed the 30 top cities in the world in the real estate investment category. London ranked as the top cit...

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Astoria vs. Long Island City: Which neighborhood is for you?

January 31, 2018

Astoria and Long Island City share a border, but the two northwest Queens neighborhoods are distinct in many ways. Astoria is home to middle-class families that have put down roots in the area, as well as 20- and 30-something newcomers in search of affordability, while Long Island City is well-known for its abundance of new, luxury high-rises and heavily professional populace. There's plenty of overlap, too: Both neighborhoods are home to...

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