Donna Olshan

With Luxury for All: A Term Once Used to Denote Exclusivity Grows Bafflingly Common

On every day of every week, communications arrive in our inbox from the offices of landlords, brokers and public relations agents touting new and forthcoming residential real estate developments, mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With few exceptions, these developments are billed as “luxury.”

By Chris Pomorski

Big Fish: ‘Book of Mormon’ Producer Finds Buyer For $35M Columbus Circle Condo

The deed remains, for the time being, with the seller, Jeffries Capital Partners founder, Roy Furman, who is a vice chairman of Lincoln Center and a Tony Award-winning producer several times over. (Mr. Furman boasts Tonys for A Raisin In the Sun, War Horse and The Book of Mormon, among others; he is also the producer for The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time, which is currently on stage.)

By Chris Pomorski

Another Day, Another Walker Tower Contract: $47.5 M. Penthouse Finds a Buyer

Even by the standards of New York Times lifestyle sections, last week's Home & Garden feature on the increasing prevalence in luxury real estate of glassy bathrooms offering sweeping city—and, to the winged, full frontal—views seemed to stretch the limits of silliness. (Then again, we ourselves are not altogether above frivolity.) And, as Douglas Elliman broker Vickey Barron observed, “Now what most people wanted in their living rooms, they want in their bathrooms. They’ll say, ‘What? No View?’” Ms. Barron, who handles sales at Walker Tower—that is, 212 West 18th Street—where Penthouse 2, last listed for $47.5 million, just entered contract, ought to know.

By Chris Pomorski

What Does a Guy Have to Do to Sell a Mansion Around Here?: Former Home of Gloria Vanderbilt Listed for $21.5 M. Enters Contract

By Chris Pomorski

Harrison Ford Finally Finds a Buyer for His Pricey Chelsea Condo

By Kim Velsey

Going… Going… Still Here! Why Some Luxury Homes Languish on the Market for Eons

By Kim Velsey

Goodbye Beresford: Journalist Kati Marton Embeds Herself In Riverside Drive Co-op

By Kim Velsey

Fire Sale! Luxury Home Contracts Were Raging Last Week

By Kim Velsey

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