Property has long been considered an excellent, stable vehicle for investment. It has a forced-saving aspect to it, and your investment is unlikely to depreciate. Although, if the greenbelt next to your home is declared a wind farm, or is rezoned for industrial use, you might need to look...
A more modern critique of zoning that segregates commercial and residential areas is that it makes residents dependent on cars. A more integrated, walkable neighborhood where people could get groceries, work, and enjoy entertainment close to their homes would allow them to forgo the environmental an...
While referrals and networking have always been at the heart of getting business for most real estate agents, it's not a scalable marketing method. You can't generate more referrals on demand, you can only wait for people to refer business to you. If you needed to get a listing next wee...
Park Slope Rezoned, Height allowed on Forth AvenuePlan would put restrictions on development to be similar to existing 3-4 shtory Victorian town housesPlan would also allow for 12-story buildings on Forth AvenueBroad medians on Forth likened to Park Avenue...
Michael Bloomberg, who took office in 2002, an unprecedented number of neighborhood rezoning efforts took place. The neighborhoods that are now experiencing the most gentrification and hotel growth, like Harlem, Williamsburg, and the Lower East Side, were each rezoned with economic redevelopment in ...
auto body shops and so on. And it's just been rezoned to allow a lot of that area to be developed, with some other changes. And activisty people in the neighborhood are furious and I can't figure out why. If they were single-family homeowners I'd call them NIMBYs and think they...
Rob and his team reportedly sought to write a provision into the deal that would waive any lease payments until the land was rezoned, a process that could take several years; the MTA wanted money right away and wouldn’t budge. After an all-day meeting with Tishman Speyer’s management ...
used the tool of allowing the owners to transfer their development rights to surrounding properties. Then they rezoned parts of West Chelsea to allow for new, larger developments. This plan includes provisions that will, in theory, encourage the mid-block galleries on the cross blocks to stay,...