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Push Continues for the No. 7 Line Extension

October 27, 2010

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As a Crains NY article discusses, Developers such as the Silverstein Group and Durst Fetner, various construction companies and the city of New York have pooled together $750,000 to apply for a $3,000,000 grant from the TIGER II Discretionary Grant Program, an offshoot of the national Department of Transportation.  TIGER II has $660M to hand […]

Buckling Down on Appraisers – Increasing the Fairness of Appraisals

October 26, 2010

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Market watch just dropped an article on the new laws coming into effect for the appraisal community.  This is an important issue in the real estate world as appraisers bridge the gap between actual value and what a new buyer wants to pay, be it too low or high.  Traditionally they are constantly pulled in […]

Walking a Tight Rope – Development in the East Village

October 25, 2010

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  originally posted by Grant Braswell of the Blumstein Team on Nearsay.com This last weekend, Corcoran Sunshine (Corcoran’s new development arm) held a gigantic open house spanning the entire city and all of their new developments.  Hundreds if not thousands of brokers and buyers came out in force to check out the properties. My team was […]

Biking Downtown in New York City – A Dream Tough to Get Right

October 19, 2010

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Originally posted on Nearsay.com by contributor Grant Braswell   One goal of any urban area should be to make available options for clean, quick and relatively cheap transportation. We can’t ask people to not use cars – that would (lamentably) be un-American. Buses are helpful, but they are painfully slow.  While a full bus is one smallest […]

Harvard Review the State of the Nation’s Housing

October 19, 2010

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Recently the Joint center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released their State of the Nation’s Housing 2010.  It is mind-numbingly thorough – diving into many subfields of housing (new development, resale, reconditioning, foreclosures, etc) and provides a basis for the rational breaking down the data into a myriad of variables (first time buyers, immigrant buyers, joblessness […]

Sydney Blumstein a Music Video Phenom!

October 14, 2010

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OK OK, so perhaps the title is a bit over the top.  However, in an exicting turn of events, our own Sydney Blumstein is in a music video by the Pimps of JoyTime.  The track, entitled “Blues Wit You” is a funky jam that was filmed in a loft in Brooklyn (Bushwick).  You may also […]

Intermix Hosts HelpUsAdopt.Org Fundraiser in the UES

October 14, 2010

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From Grant Braswell on NearSay.com Last night a sleek and successful charity event for HelpUsAdopt.Org graced Intermix on Madison at East 78th street.  The stylish clothing store for women opened their doors and provided event-goers with a space to gather.  They also generously gave people a 15% discount for anything purchased during the event. Men and women alike […]

Digital Media in Real Estate – Leveraging the New Landscape

October 14, 2010

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The following is Grant Braswell’s first article on NearSay.com, a new website providing neighborhood level information on the arts, real estate, food and more. Within 3 blocks of the corner of East 10th and Broadway, you can find 2 Corcoran offices, a Halstead Office, an Elliman office and a handful of smaller brokerages.  The offices have […]

Corcoran on Facebook

October 12, 2010

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Corcoran is well-known for its commitment to development of its digital technologies and social media involvement.  After all, this business is about being connected to the most current information and bringing together people to make real estate transactions happen as smoothly and efficiently as possible.  As written about before (with great excitement), Corcoran has applications for […]

US Vacancy Rates drop 0.6% to 7.2%

October 6, 2010

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A few days ago we wrote about the more confident landlord mindset heading into the fall of 2010.  However, due to a small increase in vacancy in the city from the lows of July/August, there was a question of if it would last. Well, an article just released by Reuters discusses how the national vacancy rate […]

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