Co-op / Condo News: Greedy Boards Rejecting Free-Market Sales Prices
...a new website helps you find co-ops in Queens, the Second Avenue subway just steered into the baby's room of a co-op apartment, and we remind condo buyers and sellers of pricey government fees not applicable to co-ops. Plus: tips for new-construction buyers, how to fight unfair late fees and famed photographer David LaChapelle buys kind of a small co-op for $1.7 million.
Read all the latest co-op / co-op news for buyers, sellers and board members in Habitat's weekly Monday News Roundup. Also included: Permanent archival links. If a link ever goes dead, you'll still be able to read the backup at WebCitation.org.
Co-op / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...
- "The Dealbreakers: If you discover a real bargain, the co-op board may not let you get away with it" by S. Jhoanna Robledo (New York)
- "New Website Launched for Apartments and Co-ops in [Queens]" (Co-op Source via PRWeb.com)
- "Homework for [New-Construction] Condo Buyers" by Jim Rendon (The New York Times)
- "2nd Avenue Subway Worker Punches Hole in [Co-op] Apartment Wall" by Ti-Hua Chang (WNYW-TV)
- "Unaware Buyers, Sellers Face [Condo] Closing-Costs Shock" by Malcolm Carter (Service You Can Trust blog)
- "Red Hook Affordable Housing [Co-op] Project Officially Opens" by Adam Fusfeld (TheRealDeal.com)
- "A Co-op Owner Protests Late Fees / Condo Space as a Workplace / Short-Term Leases for a Sponsor Studio" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)
- "Inside Story: My Journey from [Co-op] Owner to Renter" by Leslie as told to Elizabeth Kuster (BrickUnderground.com)
- "David LaChapelle Buys Classic Chelsea Brownstone [Co-op Apartment] for $1.7M" by Kelsey Keith (NY.Curbed.com)
Co-op / Condo Board Issues...
- "They (Still) Can’t Go Home Again" to Villa Charlotte Brontë co-op in The Bronx, by Robin Finn (The New York Times)
WebCitation archives:
Dealbreakers • New Website • Homework • Subway • Unaware • Red Hook • Protests / Workspace / Studio • Inside Story • • David LaChapelle • Home Again