Elegran Edge
The Real Estate Blog
What is Elegran Edge? It’s the blog where we bring together the biggest and best stories from our neighborhood blogs and agent blogs. If it’s happening in Manhattan real estate, you can find it here.
Articles about "Manhattan Luxury Apartments"
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Boundaries for Billionaires’ Row?
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Serena Horrigan
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May 29, 2015
Megatall luxury skyscrapers around Billionaires’ Row are transforming the area around Central Park. A proposed moratorium could change that.
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The Hidden Costs: A Deeper Look at Luxury
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Samantha Martinez
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February 16, 2015
NYC’s luxury rentals are more popular than ever. Here are the 8 hidden costs to consider when renting even luxury apartments in NYC.
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New York's Latest and Greatest New Developments
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Olivia Smedley
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December 02, 2013
With the influx of people looking to stake their claim in the big apple, there is no surprise that new development, reconstruction, and expansion has been rampant for years throughout the city. This fall we are seeing a large amount of homes hitting the real estate market. Many of the new construction is happening in Manhattan, but there are also a large number of developments in the ever trendy Brooklyn.
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Caveat Ne Ultra Emptor: Ease-of-Purchase for Foreign Buyers
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Bryan Gamble
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November 15, 2013
While it’s not news that New York City’s relatively cheap real estate prices are enticing a plethora of foreign buyers to the city, it is not very often that we get a look at just how this process works: how they become interested, why they go where they do and, perhaps most importantly, who oversees these deals.
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From Listings to Lift Off - Real Estate Scores High on Technology
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Shwetha Ravishankar
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September 27, 2013
It was eons ago when our parents would scramble through listings in the Sunday newspaper, or look at the neighborhood “Open House” sign and know of properties on the market. If the listing met their requirement of neighborhood, square footage, etc (which often times could be misleading), they drove over to look at the property, which clearly made the process rather tedious.
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What Do These Mayoral Hopefuls Mean for New York City Real Estate?
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Tim Sheehan
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February 26, 2013
Though we’re only two months through 2013, November’s mayoral elections are beginning to take shape. While nothing is set in stone just yet, frontrunners in both the Republican and Democratic parties have emerged in a race that is sure to affect New York City’s complex real estate market.
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The Allure of New York City’s Building Stoops
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Aby Thomas
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September 10, 2012
New York City is a walkers’ city: we see the city best when we traverse through its maze of streets and avenues on foot. However, all that walking can get daunting after a while, and weary as we are, we’d look for a place to sit. Unfortunately, the benches are in the parks and sitting on the sidewalk poses some health and/or cleanliness issues. Behold, then, the humble stoop—a row of steps in front of a low-rise Manhattan apartment building or townhouse, perfect as a seat to ease your aching muscles.
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Energy Efficiency in the Summer: What to Look for in a Condo
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Andrea Garcia-Vargas
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July 27, 2012
For a few weeks now, temperatures have reached the high 90s, broiling Manhattan blacktops and making it humanly impossible to sit on the red TKTS stairs of Times Square. Although there is little New Yorkers can do about the weather, there is much that can be done to choose an apartment building that will both accommodate a resident and use energy efficiently. Here are the top 5 features that help keep a condominium building cool, calm, collected – and green.
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School Overcrowding Crisis Looms Large For UWS Parents
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Daniel Muhlenberg
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April 11, 2012
For parents on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, waitlists for public schools are a fact of life. While some have responded by enrolling their kids in private schools or moving to the suburbs, many more have dealt with this problem by simply holding out and hoping for the best. After all, the city built P.S. 452 last year to handle overflow from P.S. 87, which reduced the waitlist for the latter from more than 100 students a few years ago to just 30 as of April 7th. Nonetheless, with a glut of new construction projects on the way, the city is woefully underprepared to handle this population influx. There simply aren’t enough Manhattan schools in this neighborhood, and in the long run this could hurt the property values and popularity of luxury apartments and condos in the area.
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