DOES HONG KONG MAKE NEW YORK SEEM CHEAP?

Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on July 23rd, 2014 Pricing in Hong Kong remains high, with some penthouse apartments selling for over $ 14,000/sf.  Buyers from Hong Kong should look at the pricing of the mega-towers of the 57th Street corridor and consider them relatively good buys…..but are there enough Hong Kong buyers… [Read More]

LARGE CITIES KEEP GROWING

New York City, the nation’s largest city with about 8.4 million people, continued to grow steadily. The city’s population expanded 0.5% in 2009, compared with 0.4% a year earlier but down from 0.7% in 2007. The recession has prevented people moving to the suburbs to buy homes. This keeps people in larger cities and draws… [Read More]