Category Archives: NYC

NYC not bulletproof

Posted on June 14, 2023 by grim

From the Real Deal: I-sales recap: Midtown offices sell for steep discounts A pair of Midtown office buildings once valued above $40 million recently sold for about half of that amount, dragging the properties into the mid-market range and topping … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, National Real Estate, NYC | 51 Comments

How much higher can rents go?

Posted on June 8, 2023 by grim

From Zumper: New York City Metro Report

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 71 Comments

Boomers back in charge

Posted on June 6, 2023 by grim

From Bank of America: The Great Migration continues The rise of Boomers as the main homebuyer The latest Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report from the National Association of Realtors found that for the first time since 2014, Baby … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, National Real Estate, NYC | 54 Comments

It’s a bargain, darling.

Posted on June 5, 2023 by grim

From the NY Post: Beach bargains: Hamptons luxury home prices are dropping After numerous record-breaking, pandemic-fueled, $100-million-plus mega-mansion sales, the hyped up Hamptons may have finally hit a wall.  The number of East End home sales fell to their lowest … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, NYC, Price Reduced, Shore Real Estate | 56 Comments

How much money would you dump into 900 square feet?

Posted on June 2, 2023 by grim

From the NYT: Priced Out of the City, They Bought a Tiny Suburban Home. Now What? Much has been written about “good enough” marriages, but what of “good enough” houses in “I guess we have to live somewhere” neighborhoods? This … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 91 Comments

Sorry about the price of your buildings

Posted on May 27, 2023 by grim

From the NY Post: Remote work is cutting NYC office value by half: Study Working from home is killing office buildings’ worth.  As remote and hybrid work prove to be enduring trends, researchers are predicting grim fates for the future … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, National Real Estate, New Development, NYC | 35 Comments

Does anyone still work in NYC?

Posted on May 16, 2023 by grim

From the NY Post: New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy attempts to woo New Yorkers in retaliation for congestion tax The grass is greener in the Garden State? New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy sure wants you to think so! Murphy is … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Gold Coast, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 52 Comments

Yep…

Posted on May 6, 2023 by grim

From Yahoo Finance: Rich millennials are spending millions to knock down beautiful houses in the NYC suburbs to build mansions as housing wars rage on Just across the Hudson River from New York City, sit suburban communities like Ridgewood, New … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 43 Comments

VLY goes all-in

Posted on May 3, 2023 by grim

From the Real Deal: Jersey boys: Valley Bank emerges as lifeline for NYC real estate For a few weeks in March, it seemed like 2008 all over again.  The tech industry’s go-to lender, Silicon Valley Bank, was seized. Depositors rushed to … Continue reading →

Posted in New Jersey Real Estate, NYC, Risky Lending | 96 Comments

No recession for the rich

Posted on February 21, 2023 by grim

From Mansion Global: Manhattan’s Luxury Real Estate Market Posts Best Week Since May 2022 Last week’s unseasonably warm temperatures may have helped warm up Manhattan’s luxury residential real estate market.  There were 31 properties priced at $4 million or more … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, NYC | 113 Comments

Who needs to buy?

Posted on February 10, 2023 by grim

From NJ1015: Here’s where millionaires choose to rent in New Jersey There are over 100 millionaires that rent in one city in New Jersey. If you’ve been paying any attention at all to real estate and building trends in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 96 Comments

Sorry buyers…

Posted on February 8, 2023 by grim

From Bloomberg: Buyers Are Flocking to NYC’s Suburbs. Too Bad There Aren’t Many Homes to Sell. In the midst of the worst US housing slump in a decade, a wave of finance and tech layoffs and drumbeats of a potential recession, … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, New Jersey Real Estate, NYC | 103 Comments

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have…

Posted on January 12, 2023 by grim

From the Times Union: Hudson Valley housing prices exploded in 2020. What happens now? In the late summer of 2019, when the word “pandemic” was most likely to call up images of the Spanish flu or the Black Death, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, NYC | 152 Comments

Not even that hot…

Posted on January 7, 2023 by grim

From Insider: The most honest man in real estate thinks the housing market isn’t going to crash Miller is a polymath: he has guided Floridians through understanding how Miami could adjust and profit off of the influx of New York-based buyers in … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, National Real Estate, NYC | 87 Comments

Manhattan prices dip

Posted on January 4, 2023 by grim

From Bloomberg: Manhattan Home Prices Slip 5.5% in First Decline Since Mid-2020 Manhattan’s homebuying market weakened at the end of last year, but didn’t foreshadow a deep freeze heading into 2023. Co-ops and condos traded for a median of $1.1 million in … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing Bubble, NYC | 130 Comments