Absolutely gorgeous and serene...and just minutes from midtown. Michelle Churchill's exclusive at 140 Cabrini Blvd is featured in NY Post's Houses of the week!
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Out-of-towners looking for a second home in New York City may find that owning makes more financial sense than renting. NY1's Real Estate reporter Jill Urban filed the following report featuring The Heddings property Group's Jennifer Breu.
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There is little doubt that social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can help even the tinniest business. Where there is doubt - plenty of it - is which platform is better for business.
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After hibernating through slump, NYC entrepreneurs launch new real estate ventures
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When Paul Purcell, the erstwhile COO of Douglas Elliman, decided in 2000 to hire Kathy Braddock as general sales manager, it caused an uproar at the venerable, century-old firm.
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Douglas Heddings, a top real estate broker and founder of the popular blog True Gotham, has left Manhattan's Charles Rutenberg Realty to start his own firm, with an unusual business model based on higher-than-average commission splits and profit sharing.
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With a mix of brownstones east of Broadway, newer high rises on Broadway and Trump Place on the west side overlooking the Hudson River, Lincoln Square is home to a mix of families, young professionals and retirees.
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Heddings Property Group has decided to remove its ability to track the online footprints of people using its "virtual office website," or VOW. The New York City-based residential firm removed the analytics feature on the VOW, which allowed agents to track their clients' every move as they searched for listings through the online service.
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Sotheby's International Realty broker Bill Williams started blogging about his new exclusive -- a house at 55 Dune Road in Bridgehampton listed for $14.95 million -- weeks before it went on the market.
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Douglas Heddings, the founder of the Heddings Property Group and a blogger about industry ethics at TrueGotham.com, said the new availability of information had foiled some old tricks of the trade. “Some brokers would take a listing off the market and put it back on as if it were new,” he said.
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The high price of New York real estate makes many renters and buyers enlist a guarantor, but the role is a serious responsibility. NY1's Real Estate reporter Jill Urban filed the following report.
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See our own Jennifer Breu with Barbara Corcoran on OpenHouseNYC.
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Facebook, Twitter and iPhone apps, move over. Skype is now infiltrating the city's brokerage world, transforming the way agents reach clients -- and vice versa...
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A year ago this month, New York's real estate community experienced one of the darker moments of the recession when Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy -- one of the city's largest and most established firms -- announced it would close.
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Without doormen, industry insiders say listings could be off-limits...
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Charles Rutenberg Realty
David Ogden joined the firm's Heddings Property Group. He was previously with Mark David & Co.
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IT had all the elements for the perfect tabloid gossip item — a clash between star financial journalists, big egos and a surprise ouster that had Wall Street buzzing...
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There's only so much you can do with a house where each floor is 16 feet wide and 58 feet long, with a staircase that takes up one-quarter of the width...
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During the boom, New Yorkers increasingly relied on "price-per-square-foot" as a way to compare rapidly rising apartment values.
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There's some low-level buzz today around Buyfolio, a new website that's designed to allow easy collaborative sharing of real estate listings from different websites...
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Matt Daimler, a technology wiz with little background in real estate, thinks he could solve some of the most vexing problems in New York City residential sales today.
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Matthew Daimler, founder of popular travel site Seatguru.com , knows his way around an airplane. Now he's turning his eyes to a more earthbound pursuit -- the New York real estate market.
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The Real Deal asked a number of residential real estate agents what the strangest thing is that they've seen at an open house. The responses ran the gamut from breast feeding to naked people to a dog taking a house tour. Here is a sampling of what the agents have encountered:
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In New York City real estate, buyers have had the upper hand for a while. With transactions virtually frozen in the wake of last year's collapse of Lehman Brothers, sellers grew alarmed, dropping prices and offering incentives to tempt purchasers.
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House hunting usually slows down this time of year, as people put their searches on hold during the holidays.
This winter could be different, however, thanks to the extension -- and expansion -- of the first-time home-buyer tax credit.
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