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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Come Swing For the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy

Our own Betsy Hoffman and Kate Barnes-Domotor have joined the Junior Committee of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy whose mission “is to reach out to adults in their 20’s and 30’s to encourage their involvement & support of the Conservancy and Brooklyn Bridge Park.” On that note, they’re hosting their first annual Twilight Swing Cocktail [...]

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Opportunity of the Day: 183 Columbia Heights

183 Columbia Heights is a rare find: a beautiful, well-maintained building that’s perfectly positioned for reinvention. One of the things we like about it is its flexibility: the layout can be tweaked to an owner’s delight. We’re talking about spacious units, with three bedrooms and two baths, in what is arguably Brooklyn’s most desirable neighborhood. [...]

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MHB Welcomes Virginia Sobol

MyHome, Brooklyn is extremely pleased to welcome Virginia Sobol to the team, to head up our marketing efforts. Virginia served as Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, a commercial real estate developer, owner and manager, and a publicly traded REIT.  She headed all communications–marketing, PR, advertising, investor communications, and Web [...]

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Mortgage Rates Fall Below 5% (WSJ) Boom in Real Estate Auctions (CNNMoney) Why Housing Recovery Is Slow (CNNMoney) Co-op Charges Could Be Rude Shock (Real Deal) Ways for Buyers to Outsmart Market (NY Times)

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Happy Birthday, Brooklyn Bridge

The official birthday was yesterday, May 24th, when the iconic bridge turned 127 years young. When it was built, in 1883, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world (the longest, at least according to Wikipedia, is the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan). And perhaps it was the beginning of the Manhattan versus Brooklyn [...]

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Condos Acting Like Co-ops (HRS) Slump for Architects Near End (Bloomberg) Brooklyn Buildings Award Winners (BStoner) Mortgage delinquencies hit 10% (CNNMoney) For Brokers, Location Is All Relative (NY Times) Defending the Eight-Figure Price Tag (BStoner)

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The Greenest Buildings Already Exist

Last December, when the biggest, glitziest and most expensive resort in Las Vegas opened, the 67-acre City Center offered a surprise. The development includes a 61-story, 4,004-room gaming resort; a 500,000-square-foot retail and entertainment district, some 2,400 residences and much more, and the bulk of it is LEED Gold-certified–meaning it’s received the environmental imprimatur of [...]

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Opportunity of the Day: 259 Pacific Street

While the outside of this perfectly located property, 259 Pacific Street, doesn’t look like much, we have very high hopes for the inside. We’re thinking of this as a two-family, and because of its condition, it’s amenable to a number of configurations and sizes (you can check out some of these potential layouts on the [...]

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