Co-op / Condo News: A Sort of Smoking Ban, Record Sales Prices, More
April 23, 2012 — Recent news affecting co-op / condo buyers, sellers, boards and residents. This week, Mayor Bloomberg proposes a residential smoking ban. Or does he? Plus, a tree may grow in Brooklyn but a co-op's just sprouted in the ever-burgeoning Bronx; the highest-priced New York City co-op ever gets sold; and what could be the second-priciest condo gets put on the market. Good thing Co-op City is staying affordable. And we wonder what Jennifer Aniston's combined co-op apartments will sell for now that she's moving (or moving in) elsewhere.
Read all the latest co-op /condo 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...
- "Mayor's Push Could Ban Smoking at Home" by Jeremy Smerd (Crain's New York Business)
- "Mayor's New Bill Does NOT Ban Smoking Inside Apartments" by Teri Karush Rogers (BrickUnderground.com)
- "Cap Assessments on Co-ops" (Greenpoint Star op-ed)
- "Determined West Farms Tenants Band Together To Fix Up Neglected Bronx Slum Building, Work To Form Co-op" by Daniel Beekman (New York Daily News)
- "Co-op City in Mortgage Talks: New Financing for Bronx Housing Complex Could Block Future Privatization Bid" by Eliot Brown (The Wall Street Journal)
- "Co-op Prices Reach New High," on an apartment's record-high sales price, by Josh Barbanel (The Wall Street Journal), and "Manhattan's $60 Million Apartment Will Be the Most Expensive Co-op Sale Ever" by Morgan Brennan (Forbes)
- "The Hunt: A Co-op with Elbow Room" by Joyce Cohen (The New York Times)
- "Don't Try This at Home: Analyzing Comparables" by Malcolm Carter (Service You Can Trust blog)
- "Aniston Dumps NYC [Condos]" by Jennifer Gould Keil (New York Post)
Co-op / Condo Board Issues...
- "A Man Living in a Storage Room / Noisy Neighbor Needs Some Rugs" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)
WebCitation archives:
Smoking Ban • NOT Ban • Assessments • West Farms • Co-op City • New High • Most Expensive • Second Most Expensive • Elbow Room • Comparables • Aniston • Storage / Noisy
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