Square Feet: Condo and co-op developers actually favor higher filing fees and more government regulation. [NY Times]
AXA is keeping Sixth Avenue digs and expanding into Jersey City. [NY Post]
The rent-stabilized tenants of the 50 Queens apartment buildings Vantage Properties purchased last week are bracing themselves for eviction. Read More
On Wall Street, neither humiliation, defeat nor a $34 billion write-down mean professional exile. [NY Times]
In January, all five boroughs posted the sharpest annual one-month rise for foreclosures in two years. [NY Post]
First look at Boston Properties’ Eighth Avenue tower. [NY Post]
China Merchants Bank is on Read More
In a sign of worse to come, home prices in New York are finally starting to drop. Some predict the fallout could be worse than when the "real estate bubble" burst in the eighties. [NY Times]
Who pays the most property taxes? Not Ron Perelman and Rupert Murdoch. The same provisions created to Read More
New York candidates awash in real estate cash. Top contributors are companies engaged in development battles. [NY Times]
Back to the Asphalt Green! A Manhattan judge voided an agreement between the Bloomberg administration and 20 private schools, which gave them control over Randalls Island playing fields in exchange for $45 million. Read More
Foreign retailers follow their shoppers to New York. [NY Times]
Greenwich Village community group opposes "Las Vegas on the Hudson." [NY Times]
NYU hammers out accord with its critics on expansion. [NY Times]
Pouring concrete at high-rises performed like a ballet in the sky. [NY Read More
High construction costs may curtail MTA’s work. [NY Times]
Amid legal disputes and the credit-crunch, Forest City Ratner is having trouble financing its $4 billion Atlantic Yards project. [NY Times]
Developer sought for restaurant to succeed Windows on the World in the new Freedom Towers. [NY Times]
Commodities markets Read More
Houses of worship struggle against years of neglect and acquisitive developers. [NY Times]
The Hunt: Finding an apartment when you don’t know where you’re going to work. [NY Times]
Commuting: The ferocity and the fun. [NY Times]
Brokers serving "truly rich" New Yorkers lament the lack of "trophy Read More
A modified version of Bloomberg’s congestion pricing scheme is likely to be endorsed at the final meeting of the traffic reduction panel next week. [NY Times]
The median housing price in the US dropped for the first time since 1990 last year. [NY Times]
The Parks Department will sell naming Read More
Home and Garden: Making dark rooms glow. [NY Times]
Gimme Shelter: Actor Steve Van Zandt bid on a three bedroom home in a church on West Fourth Street. [NY Post]
The South Brooklyn water taxi service will be suspended on February 1. [NY Post]
The Taxi and Limousine Commission Read More
Rising real estate prices are driving cost of rehearsal space up, taking a toll on the city’s musicians. [NY Times]
A Manhattan co-op’s experience with solar heating. [NY Times]
Bank of America joines parade of mortgage-related losses. [NY Times]
Ambac looks at alternatives after $3.26 billion in Read More
