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August 2010 Vol.30, No. 8



The August 2010 issue of The Cooperator newspaper focuses on Insurance & Board Training

In this issue, you can read about building flood zones, mold damage, proper fit insurance.

Visit our archives to see other articles that were published in 2010.

News Briefs

  • 09.02.10 In June, condo prices declined 2.7% to an average of $989.99 per square foot compared with the year-earlier month, according to Radar Logic's RPX Index. Despite the decline, average prices are still 6% higher than a year earlier. [Wall St. Journal]
  • 08.31.10 A partnership that is one of New York's largest apartment owners is seeking to convert more than 1,000 rental units in 36 financially distressed Upper West Side buildings into condominiums. [Wall St. Journal]
  • 08.24.10 A coalition of community groups and co-op boards will release a plan Tuesday seeking to curb high-rise development in Chinatown and the Lower East Side.en Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street, is available for occupancy. [Wall St. Journal]
  • 08.16.10 The Bedford, a five-floor, nine-unit condominium at 205 North 8th Street, between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street, is available for occupancy. [The Real Deal]
  • 08.14.10 Intended to spur low-to-moderate-income home ownership, relaxed regulations by the FHA have helped buildings in Tribeca, Midtown, Battery Park and on the Upper East and West sides. [NY Post]
  • 08.12.10 A decades-old federal law initially intended to reduce fraud in sales of Florida swampland was applied for the first time to help dissatisfied buyers of Manhattan condominiums. [Wall Street Journal]
  • 08.12.10 Developer Cord Meyer met with members of the West Side Tennis Club and representatives of Forest Hills Gardens Tuesday night to unveil its controversial plans for converting the Queens site of the historic 2.5-acre tennis stadium into 75 luxury condominiums. [Crain's NY Business]
  • 08.11.10 William Lie Zeckendorf and his brother, Arthur, along with their partner, have brought back "starchitect" Robert A.M. Stern to design a luxurious condo for the former Salvation Army Bldg. at 18 Gramercy Park South, aka E. 20th Street. [NY Post]
  • 08.11.10 A federal court in New York ruled late Tuesday that three purchasers can back out of their contracts and get their deposit back on units at a Financial District condo conversion developed by Lev Leviev of Africa Israel [Crain's NY Business]
  • 08.06.10 The 41-story, 303-unit building located on Gold St., just off Flatbush leading into the Brooklyn Bridge, is 60 percent sold, receiving a very healthy sales increase after Rose Associates took over marketing the building. [NY Daily News]
  • 08.03.10 The West Side Tennis Club in Queens has proposed that a developer with deep local roots transform its famous but aging tennis stadium into luxury condos. [The Wall Street Journal]
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