Although Lady Gaga may not be moving into Tribeca’s hot new development at 33 Vestry Street (called, with appropriate Tribeca flair V33), the building has a new superstar resident. Well, a superstar if you’re savvy about financial virtuosos, that is. Greg Agran, the newly appointed head of commodities trading at Goldman Sachs, appears to be the newest owner at the hot downtown condo. Read More
Those wily, many-children-ed Novogratzs are at it again. According to city records the, designing duo-turned-reality stars Bob and Courtney Novogratz finally sold the gun shop-turned-townhouse at 5 Centre Market Place for $11,999,900–more than $6 million off the $18 million Corcoran originally listed it for in 2008 (Brown Harris Stevens‘ Wendy Maitland and Susan Green took Read More
The saga of 26 West 76th Street is finally over! On Tuesday afternoon, the seven-story townhouse (including the basement playroom and rooftop glass-enclosed solarium) went to contract to a mystery buyer at the current listing price of $19.5 million.
Bigwig Bond Street developer Adam Gordon enlisted his trusted Sancho Panza architect ally, Steven Harris, to Read More
Prim Manhattan real estate brokers tend to lack kind words for one another’s listings, but as word spread around town over the past week that Madonna had looked at 152 East 81st Street—which, according to today’s Post, she’s actually buying—the meanness was unparalleled.
In interviews with The Observer, three top brokers, including one at Read More
Hunter’s Jennifer Raab
Hunter College jumps into real estate
Hunter College is getting into the real-estate business. College President Jennifer Raab wants to sell off the school’s 3.5-acre Kips Bay nursing campus, near the recently sold Peter Cooper Village at 25th Street and the F.D.R. Drive, and build a 16-story building for science Read More
Housing boom or not, Manhattan is still just and island. Today’s luxury brokers lack the sprawl of Florida or Southern California, where new McMansions extend for miles. So the Corcoran Group has a new solution for wealthy buyers in need space: buy a yacht.
They are the first New York City brokerage company to Read More
Last month, whispers that the sprawling triplex belonging to the late Laurance Rockefeller at 834 Fifth Avenue was making its way onto the market fluttered through Manhattan’s high-stakes real-estate circles, with the prospects of a record-setting asking price starting a race among an elite pack of Upper East Side brokers eager to catch the coveted Read More
