Real Estate

New measures are in the works to solve the city’s housing and office crises — but they depend on whether Mayor Eric Adams has what it takes to push them through the obstructionist City Council. The housing-starved city will need 473,000 new apartments by 2032, according to the Regional Plan Association, but only 11,000 new
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Several markets where high-end home prices haven’t skyrocketed are dense population centers that people left during the pandemic, when remote-work options allowed folks to live farther from their big-city jobs. These already high-priced housing markets meant there wasn’t much room for prices to grow, especially given buyers’ ongoing affordability challenges, points out Hannah Jones, a
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The final scene of “The Jinx: Part Two” docuseries finale, which aired on Sunday, shows stunning views of a lavish beachfront mansion, meant to represent the Hamptons home of killer Robert Durst‘s widow, Debrah Lee Charatan. The series, which chronicles the California murder prosecution of New York real estate scion Durst, uses Charatan’s Bridgehampton mansion,
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Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain has listed her Manhattan co-op in the Osborne — long known as one of the most beautiful apartment buildings on 57th Street — for $7.45 million. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom property has had a star-studded ownership history, with previous owners including composer Adam Guettel — the grandson of composer Richard Rodgers —
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A Manhattan townhouse that the iconic actress Katharine Hepburn called home for decades has hit the market.  Located within Turtle Bay Gardens, the 164-year-old property was owned by the late leading lady from 1931 until her death, at age 96, in 2003.  Hepburn’s estate sold the four-bedroom, four-bathroom abode for $3.9 million in 2004, to
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Hacked off with soaring housing costs and stubborn mortgage rates? Disgusted by skimpy supply and the fierce bidding wars that are now required to find a decent place to live?  If you’re looking for revenge, buy mortgage-backed securities. No, investing in these lesser-known financial instruments won’t directly cut high housing costs. But it will position
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If you’ve already binged “Selling Sunset” and “Selling the OC,” you can keep calm and carry on watching Netflix’s next foray into real estate reality TV, “Buying London.” The United Kingdom–based series, premiering on Wednesday, stars real estate adviser Daniel Daggers and a team of agents from his DDRE Global real estate firm. Over the
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