We don’t know about you, but when we grow up, we dream of owning a townhouse in New York’s West Village. In the interim, however, we’ve fallen in love with the Upper West Side. The land of bagels and lox also offers many an upscale restaurant, as well as spectacular public transportation, and of course, Central Park. There’s something about the Upper West Side that feels almost European. It’s cleaner and quieter than downtown, and isn’t nearly as stuffy as the Upper East Side.
One of our favorite properties on the …

Recently, sources reported that Matt Damon and his wife Luciana were house hunting up and down the prestigious Fifth Avenue, but new reports place them a bit further west – Central Park West, to be exact. Could this be because they “don’t have a prayer” at getting into the co-ops on Fifth Avenue, which tend to reject celebrities and all the hullaballo that surrounds them. Informants say Damon, who is a Boston boy through and through but owns a loft on Lafayette Street, has been quietly checking out sprawling full …

Rachel Ashwell, purveyor of all things shabby and all things chic (her namesake line fell apart and filed for bankruptcy last year; her diffusion line for Target, Shabby Shabby Chic, still exists) has put her 1,783 square foot Malibu home up for sale for the price of $4.4 million. The beautifully remodeled space, while not impressive on the outside, features limestone flooring, a brick patio with a spa, and mountain views. It’s also surrounded by gorgeous gardens and just steps away from a shared beach access lot with …

Walter Kronkite’s three-bedroom, five bathroom co-op at 870 United Nations Plaza is set to close today, adding some serious celebrity leverage and provenance to the hope that the city’s real estate market is boiling once again.  Reports New York Magazine, “Listing broker Joanna Simon, vice-president of Fox Residential Group and the renowned journalist’s longtime companion in his later years (she’s also the sister of singer Carly Simon), says the apartment was only on the market for four days, and the buyers — who aren’t in the news business …

The neighborhood of Murray Hill often gets a bad rap because it’s flooded with college graduates who still drink like fish and party till 6AM every night, but the truth is, if you can overlook the girls taking the walk of shame on Sunday mornings, Murray Hill’s quite a lovely place. Speaking of lovely places, we’re quite entranced with the Jasper Loft Residences in “the Hill.” Located on 32nd Street amidst millions of restaurants, a great bar scene, and Pick-a-Bagel’s on every corner, the Jasper Loft Residences offer 18 floors …

“Just CondoDomain it” – So what the heck does that mean?
Yes it could mean – just choose CondoDomain to help you buy or sell your house….but in this case its just a silly blog title.
“Just CondoDomain it” means that you can actually leverage the worlds fastest search engine to surf our site in just milliseconds. Because we built our platform for the web, our website reacts very well with search engines like Google.
Google spiders our website at least twice daily so anything that is on our website …

The New York Times is reporting that new building Chelsea Modern, located on West 18th Street, and available through CondoDomain, is offering their current renters a 10% discount to become buyers. Luckily for some, and not so lucky for others, many buildings are offering such details, and many owners are finding themselves in the situation of convincing their renters to leave.
Here’s what went down. When the market crashed, many owners opted to rent out their properties rather than settle for devastatingly low purchase offers. Many didn’t even have purchase offers …

We often hear people speak negatively about living in the Financial District, and we can’t imagine why. We love it down there! It’s a wild hustle and bustle during the day, but come nighttime, things quiet down, so we can close our eyes and almost pretend we’re in suburbia, where the crickets chirp and we can see the stars. Okay – so it’s rare that we see the stars anywhere in New York City, but FiDi has many a great luxury building to offer.
One of our favorites is be@william, a …

Yesterday, March 3rd, 2010, marked the first day of the Taxi & Limousine’s Cab Sharing Program. The program, which encourages city denizens to (gasp!) share their cab with other individuals, launched in three different Manhattan locations. The program allows up to four passengers to share cabs, car pool style, from designated stands along three set routes in Manhattan, for $4 each. It’s worked for suburbanites for years now – why not try it in our fine city?
The flat fare will be $3 or $4 a head, significantly less than the …

Things don’t look so hot for Brooklyn based architect Robert J. Scarano. After an administrative law judge claimed that Scarano had “made numerous false statements about properties in Brooklyn,” the Department of Building filed an order against Scarano which prevents him from filing any sort of construction plans for the foreseeable future. The order applies to both pending projects and any current ones that Scarano is working on – meaning that for the time being, Scarano can’t work as an architect in New York City.
According to the New York Times, …

The NYTimes currently has a great piece up on their website entitled, “The Psychology of Moving.” The piece, which details the moves/lack thereof of multiple people, paints the act of moving as one that is ultimately a treacherous and negative activity. While we can agree that yes, the process of moving itself (and by that, we mean physically packing up our things in boxes and bringing said boxes out to the moving truck, then unpacking them in our new home) is terrible. Our most recent move took place in the …