TWITTER STALLS SIGNALING A SHIFT?

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on November 8th, 2014 This week’s mediocre results from TWITTER may signal a shift: is the world getting tired of the shallowness of so much of what is reported? Is 160 characters enough to truly get  a message of substance across? Is the world starting to look for… [Read More]

NEW YORK REAL ESTATE PREPARES FOR BIG BONUSES?

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on November 6th, 2014 As real estate land fumbles about the future of the markets, word on the street is that some are doing quite well indeed…. bonus season is about to dawn on us and all bets are they will be good! Money managers at hedge-fund firms… [Read More]

THE URBAN COMPASS REAL ESTATE APP. REVOLUTION

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on November 2nd, 2014 At URBAN COMPASS we developed an APP many months ago in house that has turned the industry upside down. It demonstrates to the world how simple and easy it can be to search for everything real estate in the palm of your hand. Now… [Read More]

ROBOTS TO INVADE CHELSEA? LOWE’S IS COMING TO NEW YORK CITY

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on October 29th, 2014 CRAIN’S just reported that Lowe’s, the primary Home Depot competitor is coming to Manhattan opening two branches, one on the Upper West Side at 2008 Broadway and another 30,000sf store in West Chelsea at 635 West 19th Street. Does anyone know what building this… [Read More]

THE APARTMENT IS THE CHEAP P(ART)

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on October 26th, 2014 Strolling through the exceptional Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit of the Cubist works owned by Leonard Lauder, I was reminded that these masterpieces were actually in someone’s home until very recently: We should be reminded in a world obsessed with high priced real estate just how… [Read More]

PIEDE-A-TERRE TAX STUPIDITY

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on October 25th, 2014 I live in a building where several people own apartments that they only use a few months of the year. I am in no way offended by this. My neighbors paid lots of transfer and mansion taxes buying, pay monthly real estate taxes, employ decorators, trades people,… [Read More]

WHEN SPECULATION DAMPENS MARKETS

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on October 24th, 2014 Speculation can be a powerful thing: as New Yorkers awaken this morning to the reality that the first local EBOLA case has been identified, many are wondering what or if they have been exposed in some way to this deadly disease? Did you walk… [Read More]

J-LO BUYS AT MADISON SQUARE PARK AS CHELSEA CLINTON NEIGHBOR

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on October 22nd, 2014 Jennifer Lopez, the fly-girl turned super-star from the Bronx is moving Downtown according to the New York Post: she is supposedly in contract to buy the penthouse above Chelsea Clinton at The Whitman, a newly renovated condominium facing Madison Square Park. The massive penthouse… [Read More]