Mother Gaston Affordable Home Ownership Program Helps Brooklyn Teacher Achieve Dream Growing up in a rent-stabilized apartment in Park Slope, 44-year-old Amy Hamberry remembers seeing the waves of gentrification roll in. At school, she started to notice differences with other kids, like not being able to go on ski trips, not feeling like she fit […]

A revamped plan and new development team is in place for a long-awaited mixed-use project at 800 West Lake Street in Fulton Market — with apartments now being eyed instead of a hotel. Development firms Ascend Real Estate and Intercontinental Real Estate Group are joining forces with GREC Architects for a taller plan than the […]

5,500 acres primed for residential development hit market for $58M  Business Observer Source link

It hasn’t changed hands in decades, so while a new owner might want to give this Prospect Lefferts Gardens single-family a few modern upgrades, it comes with some appealing period details and plenty of living space. Being sold “as is” according to the listing, the Romanesque Revival-style row house at 42 Rutland Road has mantels, […]

Canada’s two-year ban on the purchase of residential property by foreigners was supposed to help Canadian buyers and the real estate business.  Instead, it’s created new headaches. Flaws in the language of the legislation are causing real harm, according to a note from the economics arm of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The note […]

Book Review: ‘Pineapple Street,’ by Jenny Jackson  The New York Times Source link

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a row house in Boerum Hill, a brownstone in Park Slope, and a standalone in Kensington. Boerum Hill, Bed Stuy, and Kensington were all popular this week. The least expensive on the list is a single-family in Flatbush at $749,000 and the most expensive is a […]

Hilton College Dean Dennis Reynolds with the University of Houston (Getty, University of Houston, Kirksey Architecture) The University of Houston is expected to open its renovated on-campus hotel next week.  The school’s Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership will reopen the Hilton-branded hotel that it spent more than $30 million renovating and expanding, the Houston […]

A sprawling apartment in Turner Towers, perhaps Brooklyn’s grandest co-op, has a nicely updated kitchen and loft-like main living space. It’s on the first floor of the building, located at 135 Eastern Parkway, which was designed by Sugarman & Berger and opened in 1927. The walls around the dining room have been opened up to […]

(Illustration by The Real Deal with Getty) That house you have might not be worth what you think it is — and a lot of people are in the same boat (and may need one), according to a new study. Homes in certain areas that are vulnerable to floods are overvalued by $120 billion to […]

Although petite, this one-bedroom in a Bed Stuy brownstone looks meticulously kept, with graceful original details and modern updates that enhance rather than detract from the existing architecture. Its three rooms take up the front half of the top floor of 256 Hancock Street in the historic district. There is a mantel, parquet, molding, a […]