Archive for September, 2006

At a time when even new homes on Long Island are lingering on the market, one developer is hedging his bets on $5 million homes in Old Brookville.

What does it take to sell a house in a slowing real estate market? Perhaps a 2006 Mercedes E-Class sedan would seal the deal.

With developers tearing down two-family houses to build — in some cases — six-family structures, the density seems to be on a geometric climb.

Assessments levied by a condominium board for capital improvements can be used to increase the tax basis of individual units.

Original post by THE NEW YORK TIMES and software by Elliott Back

Assessments levied by a condominium board for capital improvements can be used to increase the tax basis of individual units.

The Sketch Pad article last Sunday, about plans by Polshek Partnership Architects to reinvent a house in Amenia, N.Y., omitted the name of an architect who helped to design Bill ClintonÂ’s presidential library, another project by the Polshek group. In addition to Richard M. Olcott, James Stewart Polshek (another partner of Polshek Partnership) was a co-designer.

Until about 1920, Broadway in the West 60Â’s grew thick with automobile showrooms and garages.

Perhaps a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but developers with many millions of dollars on the line worry that the name of a building can mean the difference.

The object of Paul Averill’s apartment hunt became an accessible place suitable for remodeling.

It may not be Southport or Westport, but Stratfield, Conn., has similiar houses that can sell for $200,000 less — not to mention highly ranked schools.