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December 2007
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Getting a hotel room near the BQE

North Brooklyn, home to hipsters, moms with strollers, and Williamsburg trustafarians, is getting its first hotel in decades and a boutique hotel at that...
By Isabelle Sender

Sexy Ads: Undressed for success

Some real estate ads shouldn't be left lying on a coffee table when there are young children around.


By Lauren Elkies

Brokers saying 'no thanks' to stubborn sellers

More brokers rejecting overpriced apartments
By Lauren Elkies

After slow fall, inventory starts to grow

Will lower bonuses hurt the traditionally slow fourth quarter?
By Lauren Elkies

All about Yves

What do two builders from Queens and Long Island name a condo designed by a New York-based Mexican architect? But of course: Yves.
By Steve Cutler

More Wall Street worries over jobs

The credit crunch has put annual bonuses for many Wall Street workers in a precarious position.
By Alison Gregor

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The Commercial Slowdown

After a record-breaking run, New York City's commercial market has witnessed a dramatic slide in the wake of the credit crunch. Big-dollar building sales have sunk to their lowest levels in six quarters as money has gotten tougher to borrow. The pace of leasing deals has also slowed since the crisis hit this summer, as weakened financial firms are shying away from taking space.
By Jill Gardiner
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The Closing: Mitchell Steir

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Chairman and CEO of Studley, an international commercial real estate services firm specializing in tenant representation. The company has 300 professionals in 19 domestic offices and one in London.

Seymour Durst's vision of Midtown's potential continues to unfold

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The groundwork for the structure the Durst Organization is erecting at One Bryant Park, which could become the city's second tallest building, was laid 50 years ago by Seymour Durst.
By Matt Schneiderman

Rental market shows some signs of weakness

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Attention, holiday shoppers: There s a pocket of softness in the rental market. For rental brokers, this means an offering of incentives unseen since 2005. Lately, landlords have begun enticing brokers with everything from iPods to up to $30,000 worth of plane tickets.
By C. J. Hughes

The tale of two Upper East Sides

As the uber-wealthy continue to jockey for apartments worth tens of millions of dollars on the Upper East Side, not everyone in the notoriously tony neighborhood is faring as well. By Melissa Dehncke-McGill

Who got it right or wrong in 2007

How experts predictions nailed or missed the fallout from the subprime debacle By Jen Benepe

Solow and Macklowe square off

Rumors are rife that Sheldon Solow is angling to purchase some of the debt that was secured by Harry Macklowe to acquire seven buildings from the Equity Office portfolio last February.
By The Real Deal Staff

Sellers swallowing their pride in Crown Heights

Until recently, brokers touted Crown Heights, located east of Prospect Heights, as an up-and-coming neighborhood that offered an alternative to pricier parts of Brownstone Brooklyn. But now the question is whether listings there are actually luring buyers.
By Katherine Dykstra

Technical defaults rise, but foreclosures don't hit

There's a little storm cloud on the commercial horizon in New York. While the recent lending crisis hasn't hit the commercial market, many observers think a Day of Reckoning might be coming.
By Kathy Schienle

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