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  1. High Profile Compass Brokers Are Leaving for Elliman In search of greener pastures, where teams can grow and DocuSign is paid for.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. The Trump Organization Says Kris Jenner–Fronted ‘Business School’ Is Squatting An elite scammer-versus-scammer situation.
    By Clio Chang
  3. The Central Park Supertall with a $250 Million Penthouse Extell CEO Gary Barnett is done settling for less!
    By Kim Velsey
  4. Kim Kardashian Is Selling Two of Her Houses She will keep the other two.
    By Zach Schiffman
  5. Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Offices Win the Amenity Wars Two Trees is betting that you won’t hate the neighborhood, the commute, or the work space itself.
    By Kim Velsey
  6. Unsellable Soho Loft Now Comes With an NFT Fine, we’ll take it.
    By Zach Schiffman
  7. The House That Yankee Candle Built Featuring two “car barns,” four tennis courts, and an indoor water park.
    By Zach Schiffman
  8. Landlords Are Trying to Make ‘Tenantsplaining’ a Thing Our housing providers are having a little fun.
    By Clio Chang
  9. ‘Emotionally Paralyzed’ New York Home Buyers Are Backing Out of Contracts Worried about rising interest rates, buyers are making offers but not closing sales.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. The Outer-Borough Bidding Wars Are Here Brokers on receiving 100 emails a day and getting messages while in labor.
    By Wilfred Chan
  11. The West Village ‘Nightmare Share’ Is Over The “grifter” accused of squatting in an Airbnb rental for three years has been evicted.
    By Bridget Read
  12. A Woman in the Bronx Fell Through Her Bathroom Floor A new addition to your list of tenant nightmares.
    By Clio Chang
  13. ‘He’s Kicking Me Out Because My Daughter Wouldn’t Sleep With Him.’ A housing lawyer on how often landlords insert “sexual clauses” in leases.
    By Bridget Read
  14. Neil Patrick Harris Just Sold the Priciest Townhouse in Harlem Taxidermy monkeys (probably) not included.
    By Zach Schiffman
  15. Ivana Trump’s Old Greenwich Mansion May Finally Sell After 13 Years The $24 million price cut should help.
    By Kim Velsey
  16. Adam Neumann, Vibes Landlord Marc Andreessen backs the WeWork founder’s second coming of … something?
    By Bridget Read
  17. The Egg Wars of 1214 Fifth Avenue Residents of the Upper East Side luxury building are “terrified” of being egged.
    By Clio Chang
  18. Weed Museum Coming to Soho Welcome to the new Museum Mile.
    By Clio Chang
  19. Manhattan Rents Broke Another Record Average rents reached more than $5000 in July.
    By Clio Chang
  20. ‘They’re Destroying an Artists’ Block’: Locals on the Vornado Penn Station Plan A furrier, a circus school, and other shops on the big changes coming to their block.
    By Kim Velsey
  21. The Ranch Thinks New Yorkers Can’t Handle the Ranch The luxury Malibu boot camp is coming to the Hudson Valley with shorter hikes and later wake-up times.
    By Clio Chang
  22. The Times’ ‘Hunt’ Columnist Is Being Sued for Back Rent But it looks like Joyce Cohen is just trying to finish out her sublet term.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. Dystopian Housing Issue? There’s an App for That. It’s become so impossible to get an apartment that apps have emerged to make it easier — for a fee, of course.
    By Bridget Read
  24. A Fake Developer Scammed 20 Brooklyn Families Out of $4 Million After trusting a familiar face in the Chinese community, they are suing him to stave off eviction.
    By Clio Chang
  25. Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent Control The move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.
    By Clio Chang
  26. The San Jose Realtor Whose Clients Would Rather Be in Palo Alto “Even my most wealthy and successful clients can’t touch that market.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  27. Bishop Lamor Whitehead Owns a Lot of Real Estate. Or Does He? The Brooklyn pastor, who said he was robbed of $1 million mid-sermon last Sunday, is reportedly in default on a $4.5 million house.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. New York Moving Companies Go to War Over Tech Secrets The long-running grudge match between Piece of Cake and Dumbo Moving and Storage.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. 4 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of Four The search, at long last, concludes.
    By Emily Gould
  30. There Is Now a Raya for Home-Swapping DTC furniture and well-maintained Monsteras only.
    By Clio Chang
  31. When a New High-Rise Means Less Housing A new tower is four times the height of its predecessor, yet it has fewer apartments.
    By Kim Velsey
  32. Let’s Take a Closer Look at Armie Hammer’s Time-shares, Shall We? The décor casts a threatening aura.
    By Rebecca Alter
  33. What Happens to the Listings Project When There Are No Good Listings? Stephanie Diamond’s ethical apartment site runs up against a “disgusting” market.
    By Kim Velsey
  34. The Average Rent in Manhattan Is Now $5,000 Congratulations!
    By Katie McDonough
  35. The Montana Broker Whose Listings Suddenly Won’t Sell “This time last year, we had people sending personal assistants to come look at homes for them and then offering all cash. Now, crickets.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  36. The McKibbin Lofts Super Asked for a Raise But Was Evicted Instead Jose Diaz has worked and lived in the building for 12 years.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  37. The Woo-woo Agents of Real Estate Can unblocking your chakras get you a house? Maybe!
    By Bridget Read
  38. Compass Comes Back to Earth As it lays off 450 employees and its stock price tanks, the great disruptor turns out to be a brokerage after all.
    By Kim Velsey
  39. The Building That Brought Down Anna Delvey Is Back on the Market Maybe she’ll raise the money to buy 281 Park Avenue South for real this time?
    By Kim Velsey
  40. What’s More American Than Living in a Missile Silo? No on-site laundry, though.
    By Clio Chang
  41. The Great Boy Scouts Land Sell-Off Developers and conservationists are battling over the organization’s fantastically valuable property.
    By Molly Osberg
  42. 32 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of Four Too exhausted to go on, Emily hands the hunt over to her husband, Keith.
    By Emily Gould
  43. The Small, Litigious New York Real-Estate Dynasty You’ve Never Heard Of Suing your own mother for being a “slumlord” is just the tip of the iceberg.
    By Bridget Read
  44. The West Village Co-op With a Surprise in the Closet The surprise is a shower.
    By Clio Chang
  45. In a Soho Loft, Tech Bros Plot an Autonomous City Praxis, a “grassroots movement of modern pioneers,” lures members with grocery-store crudités and vague conversation.
    By Nevin Kallepalli
  46. Inside Olympic Tower, Where Foreign Billionaires Have Long Flocked The midtown high-rise is ideal for those who’d rather not do much of anything themselves.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  47. The Year REBNY Tried to Get Cool And the real power players left early.
    By Kim Velsey and Clio Chang
  48. Meet Eric Adams’s Other Brooklyn Apartment An unofficial tour of the Prospect Heights co-op he forgot he still owned.
    By Clio Chang
  49. The Austin Broker With a Robust Country-Club Client Base “A colleague sends me some stats from the Census Bureau saying that Austin’s population is increasing by 146 people every day. Wowza!”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  50. Julia Haart’s $65 Million Penthouse Is Politically Neutral Also it’s technically not her apartment.
    By Clio Chang
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