When we first laid eyes on the new building going up at 186 Grand Street in Williamsburg we thought it looked like the handiwork of Radusky et al at Bricolage. Then we remembered that we'd back in early 2008 when

the new eatery on the corner of 6th Avenue and 7th Street, opened last week. On offer: Standard diner fare as well as a bunch of grab-and-go pastry options.

This house at 443 11th Street in Park Slope may or may not be worth $1,375,000, but the lack of interior photos sure doesn't work in its favor. The three-story, three-family place clearly doesn't have interiors to brag about (it

Last year, Apartment 5A at 7 South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene asking $425,000 and ultimately sold for $415,000. That unit however wasn't nearly as nice as this new listing for Apartment 3A. The half-floor, one-bedroom co-op has a light,

Photo by for This Week's Openings dishes the details on the Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Avenue): "Those nutjob geniuses at Glasslands, the superhip rag tag performance space on Kent in Williamsburg, have managed to do something original and pretty damn

111 Monroe Street, the 29-unit condo formerly known as 1142 Bedford Avenue, has passed the oh-so-symbolic 50%-sold mark. It took some big price cuts and some FHA-style easy money to get there, but frankly we're glad to see that this

The 20-unit development at 324-328 Dean Street has mostly flown under our radar, and it seems to have eluded the attention of buyers as well. Ads for the condo, which is between 3rd and 4th avenues, in summer '08. Back

This can only be described as the most momentous news in the history of time: The new LIRR terminal entrance at Atlantic Station is supposed to open to the public next week, according to a worker on the site. The

The firm , which provides market research on commercial real estate, recently started putting together on "troubled" properties by region. The findings for Brooklyn? According to the firm, the borough currently has about $1 billion in troubled real estate, which

Despite long-time public opposition and more recent financial challenges, Forest City Ratner had no problem raising $511 million, roughly half of what he needs, to finance the development of the arena at Atlantic Yards yesterday; the bond sale narrowly beat

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Remember back in 2002 when then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued the city and won a reprieve for hundreds of community gardens threatened with extinction? Well, that agreement expires next year and City Limits is reporting that a bunch of the

When we last checked in on the scaled-down version of Quadriad's Bedford Avenue development, it was September and the five-story structure had been framed out. When we drove by this past weekend, it had a facade and windows. Progress! [Brownstoner]

Posted To: The Mortgage Bankers Association today released the Weekly Survey on Mortgage Application Activity for the week ending December 11, 2009. The survey covers over 50 percent of all US residential mortgage loan applications taken by mortgage bankers, commercial

Posted To: Mortgage rates continued to move higher yesterday following a warmer than expected read on inflation at the producer level and a better than anticipated industrial production report. After the data was released, benchmark Treasury yields moved higher and

Posted To: After 830 data, thanks to a round of real money buying, the bond market improved off overnight lows and yields tested recent resistance levels. The 10yr yield moved down to 3.57%, but failed to break through this resistance

Posted To: Friday I made the mistake to saying that I thought down payment assistance programs had vanished, going the way of the Ivory Billed Wood Pecker or the lavish mortgage banker Christmas party. It turns out that seller-funded DPA's

News of Dubai World's woes has property investors giving this city-state a second look.