Category: Real Estate Trends

Real Estate Trends Holiday Harmony
2011 November Holiday Harmony

 One of my five-year-old daughter’s favorite YouTube clips involves an elaborately decorated house, whose  thousands of colored Christmas lights were programmed to flicker, strobe, wave,  and blink to the tune of the Trans-Siberian Orchest…

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Real Estate Trends Something Old Into Something New...
2011 November Something Old Into Something New...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 136 million tons of construction and demolition waste was generated in 1996, which was the last time these figures were made available, and those numbers have most likely ri…

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Real Estate Trends What's a Biennial Statement
2011 April What's a Biennial Statement

A fact that is often overlooked is that the corporate operations of most co-ops are governed by the Business Corporation Law (BCL). The Business Corporation Law is the main New York State law which governs how co-op corporatio…

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Real Estate Trends Is Your Building Wasting Energy?
2011 April Is Your Building Wasting Energy?

Steam heating using both single- and two-pipe steam radiators will continue to dominate the heating of a majority of buildings in New York City well into the present century. But how do we determine if an apartment building is energy e…

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Real Estate Trends False Billings and Kickbacks?
2011 April False Billings and Kickbacks?

 Building owners spend billions of dollars a year to construct and refurbish  their properties, yet many are unaware of the hidden costs some contractors  charge improperly. Building owners are often vulnerable to this kind of  corruption …

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Real Estate Trends Benchmarking Your Building
2011 April Benchmarking Your Building

On December 8, 2009, the City Council passed Local Law 84 as part of New York City’s Greener, Greater Buildings initiative. Article 309 of this law requires all residential and commercial buildings over 50,000 square feet and city build…

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Real Estate Trends Doing A Successful Makeover
2011 April Doing A Successful Makeover

If you are contemplating selling your home, you probably know that the residential real estate market in New York City has rebounded dramatically since last year. However, to ensure the most successful sale in any market, it’s important…

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Real Estate Trends Change in Chelsea
2011 April Change in Chelsea

For years, Chelsea was a highly industrial fringe neighborhood, a commercial center on the west side of Manhattan filled with stables, railyards and rowhouses, but today it’s a popular place for restaurants, nightclubs, retail shopping …

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Real Estate Trends Handling Bedbugs Effectively
2011 April Handling Bedbugs Effectively

Bedbugs are a fact of urban life, and a growing problem for residents in communal environments. As the bedbug epidemic mushrooms—1 in 15 New Yorkers had bedbugs in the last year, according to the New York City Department of Health—the l…

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Real Estate Trends FHA-ADA Guidelines
2011 April FHA-ADA Guidelines

Was your building constructed after March 31, 1991? If the building you own has more than four units and was built after 1991, the property should have been constructed according to the accessibility guidelines of the Fair Housing Act …

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