Here’s the meat from the commerce department’s July new residential sales report released yesterday. Sales of new one-family houses in July 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...

Getting Graphic is a semi-sort-of-irregular collection of our favorite BIG real estate-related chart(s).

Let’s try something different, take another path through the forest…. Close your eyes for a minute and imagine a Congress that will vote for its constituent’s behalf and their conscious. Imagine they will vote on the issue and not...

One of the by-products of the credit crunch has been the rise in shadow inventory. Within my own market stats, I consider shadow inventory all units that are complete or under construction but not yet offered for sale as condos (sometimes as cond-ops...

In this podcast, I got to catch up with Jerry Feeney, a terrific real estate attorney who specializes in representing buyers and sellers in residential real estate transactions as well as institutional lenders in the New York City metro area. He...

I was invited this morning to join Tom Keane and Ken Prewitt on their must listen to radio show Bloomberg Surveillance at 8am. I sat in for about 3/4 of an hour. Love this show – avid listener of their podcasts. This time, they brought in a few...

It’s time to share my Three Cents Worth on Curbed, at the intersection of neighborhood and real estate. Three Cents Worth: Manhattan’s Recession Bookends Graphed For Your Convenience This week I plotted nearly 20 years of year-over-year quarterly...

One of the mysteries of the recent credit boom was the way very smart people made decisions that they now regret. Hugh Kelly and I in our latest podcast agreed that “you do the math” simply wasn’t enough. Knowledge of rent regulation intentions was...