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Here's one thing we learned today: If you want people to vote for you, you might not want to put political fliers designed to look like parking tickets on their windshields. "Thank you for giving me a very clear favorite

The seven-story building at 185 York Street in Vinegar Hill is well on its way now but the big question remains to be answered: Can a market-rate project make it right across from public housing? [Brownstoner]

According to the DOB permit in the window, the former clothing store at 672 Fulton Street in Fort Greene is in the process of being turned into a beauty parlor. Word on the street it's being brought to you by

Sweeet! Check out this 25-foot-wide corner brownstone at 49 8th Avenue in Park Slope. While whoever can end up affording the $3,200,000 price tag will inevitably want to gussy it up a bit (even the listing says it's "in need

The Mill Building at 85 North 3rd Street has long been a favorite of ours. The conversion hit the market in better times and was popular with buyers. One such buyer is now moving on though and putting his second

Sheepshead Bay doesn't get a lot of attention around here but this new condo at caught our eye. We don't think of the area being known for Richard Meier-wannabe designs. Given the alternative though (like we wrote about last year),

It had to happen sometime! The 14 Townhouses on State Street received a lot of attention, most of it positive, when they hit the market back in 2005. It took a little while (and some time off the market) to

Another reason we wish our programmer would finish the updated version ye olde widget: This one-bedroom at 60 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene was listed for $399,000. 58 readers weighed in on the price via the widget, with an

From the Brooklyn Heights Blog comes word of an incremental step towards the neighborhood's much-anticipated new watering hole. The old signage from when 97 Atlantic Avenue was occupied by Magnetic Field just came down, the blog , clearing the way

There was a lot of discussion last week about the viability and timing of the issuance of debt to finance the construction of Barclay's Arena, the centerpiece of the Atlantic Yards project. First, on Wednesday, the blog Noticing New York

Before the real estate market started to weaken back in 2008, Brooklyn Brewery had been desperately (and ) searching for a new place to set up shop in Brooklyn; after two decades on North 11th Street in Williamsburg, commercial rents

An article in The Times this weekend looks at the mayor's record at cleaning up corruption and incompetence at the Buildings Department and largely finds it wanting; but the paper also notes that no other mayor has had much luck

If you are looking to finance the purchase of your dream house with a cheap bank loan, time is running out, with large public sector banks such as State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) planning to

National Association of Realtors (NAR), an apex organisation of real estate brokers in the country, is working towards developing a live property valuation index, which will become the benchmark for real estate deals in the country. NAR President Ravi Varma

Venturing where few private players have gone before, India's largest realty firm DLF is is planning to build one lakh affordable houses that would cost less than Rs 20 lakh in major cities across the country. According to sources, the

State Bank of India, the nation's largest, said quarterly earnings climbed 10% on gains from bonds and currency trading even as its profits from lending to companies and individuals fell. Bad loans rose. Net profit advanced to Rs 2490 crore

Realty firm Omaxe on Saturday reported 10.45 per cent jump in consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September 30 at Rs 22.51 crore, bucking industry trend of real estate giants posting dip in bottomline. The company had posted a

Real estate company Unitech Ltd on Saturday posted an over 50 per cent drop in its consolidated net profit for the second quarter ended September 2009 to about Rs 178 crore, as property market downturn hurt sales realisations on a