Markets do, that’s who. Without it, as we’ve seen in the last two or three years, the whole economic system gets shaky. One of the functions of this blog is to examine those elements that make confidence wither or bloom, those ever-present questions of whether or not to buy, what to buy, and where to [...]
Many who purchase a home in a co-op building quickly realize what a lack of co-operation exists in their new property: the politicking, the in-fighting, the squabbling over the new fern in the entryway. Part of the philosophy behind MyHome, Brooklyn, and specifically our You Share portal, is to encourage a completely different kind of [...]
Yes, zoning seems like a sleepy subject, but it is one of those silent-but-powerful forces that deeply affect your neighborhood quality of life. Those folks who live in a three-story brownstone next to a 10-story factory know what we mean. Zoning determines what sizes and types of buildings you can have in a given area [...]
How the Real Brooklyn Fares Better in a Depressed Market Real Estate in the middle of this decade was all about gambling, making more and bigger buildings on the assumption that there would always be bodies to fill them. In Brooklyn, that gamble came in the form of Manhattan-style skyscrapers dotting the edges of established [...]
