Tag: Stribling & Associates

Management Navigating the Lap of Luxury
Navigating the Lap of Luxury

A hotel is often viewed as simply a weigh station; a temporary rest stop for the active wanderer. Thus there has always been something fascinating about those who take up permanent residence therein, whether they be Tennessee Williams, Bob …

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Board Operations When Co-op Board Interviews Go Bad
When Co-op Board Interviews Go Bad

As with a first date or job interview, sitting before a cooperative board to plead your case for buying into its community is a daunting prospect. Though the pressure may be high, board interviews tend to be pretty straightforward. But what…

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Maintenance Location, Location, Location
2016 April Location, Location, Location

Though the real estate crisis didn't rattle New York City to nearly the degree that it did other markets around the country, construction still stalled on many new developments during the recent recession. It’s not only location or the newe…

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Real Estate Trends What the Future Holds
2012 December What the Future Holds

 The worst of the recession—big-time failures of investment banks and mortgage companies, huge banks in  trouble, companies laying people off in the thousands—may be over. There are some signs of hope, and residential buildings that were  …

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Real Estate Trends Better Days Ahead
2012 April Better Days Ahead

Two seemingly opposite dynamics are both influencing today’s real estate market—and its impact on co-ops and condos. On one hand, people all over the United States, including the greater New York area, are becoming more frugal, and lear…

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Real Estate Trends Looking Ahead
2011 April Looking Ahead

Employment figures may be up, and the economy may be showing signs of life after the long winter of the Great Recession, but the real estate market is still shaking off the chill. New York City in 2010 saw few building permits issued, …

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Real Estate Trends New Decade, a New, New York
2010 April New Decade, a New, New York

 At the beginning of 2009, the New York real estate market was as frozen as the  ice at the Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. The collapse of Bear Stearns and  bankruptcy by Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008—a day still mentioned in hush…

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Real Estate Trends Members Only
2010 April Members Only

New York City takes understandable pride in the many beautiful parks studding the concrete rigidity of its urban grid. This makes it somewhat ironic that one of the lovliest of these green spaces is locked up—accessible only to those lu…

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