A neighborhood group opposed to a condo development project on Manhattan's East Side is still making some noise after it filed a lawsuit over the summer. As reported in amNY , the East River Fifties Alliance organization was repres…
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Manhattan's Billionaire's Row is going to get a little bit crowded. Curbed reported this past Monday that developer Extell Development Company announced that it has officially launched sales for the supertall Central Park Tower developm…
Nobody ever claimed that managing a co-op, condo, or HOA community would be easy -- but what is easy for residents to forget sometimes is that property management is a big, multifaceted job that often gets little thanks when things go w…
There are lots of things co-op and condo buildings can do to reduce energy waste and save themselves and their residents money. Submetering is one way - and here, an energy pro discusses a few key points boards should know when contemplatin…
Talk about an education in real estate: recent condo developments on the Upper East and Upper West sides have coincidentally both involved the displacements of two schools at their respective construction sites. At East 85 th Street and…
If you're looking to buy a new condo in New York City, perhaps now is the time to do so. According to a Wall Street Journal report published yesterday, sales for new condominiums fell during third quarter 2018—a drop of 30 percen…
A condo community in Wayne, New Jersey is experiencing a case of sticker shock after its residents learned they would have pay for foundation repair work. NorthJersey.com reported that the owners of condo-townhouse complex Brittany Chase…
Last April, The Cooperator published an update on the conversion-to-condo project currently underway at Manhattan's famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. The precarious financial situation of Anbang Insurance Group , the Chinese company tha…
Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) cooperatives were set up some 40 years ago as a means of establishing home ownership opportunities for low-income residents in New York City. The program also served to help the city stabilize nei…
Most co-op, condo, and HOA board members are not legal professionals - they're volunteers who participate in the governance of their community out of a sense of duty and the desire to have a say in maintaining the value of their and their n…