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Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber Is Out — But Why Now?

 Head of the brokerage for more than two decades, Lorber faced criticism for his handling of complaints against Tal and Oren Alexander. By Bridget Read
  1. Raffi Is Selling His House The musician and activist’s Salt Spring Island three-bedroom has wood beams and ocean views and is going for $1.875 million.
    By Clio Chang
  2. A Fitting End to the Saga of Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment “America’s mayor” always wanted a penthouse. Now the Georgia election workers he defamed own it.
    By Bridget Read
  3. How to Look at Zillow With John Wilson A landlord’s offer spurred the documentarian and HBO host to go on a listings deep dive.
    By John Wilson
  4. A Wonderfully Sprawling Lenox Hill Three-Bedroom for $849,000 And a charming Woodside one-bedroom with a delightful little price.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. An ‘Italian Hill Town’ for Biohackers and Crypto CEOs Welcome to Esmeralda.
    By Clio Chang
  6. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings A Full House–esque three-bedroom in Ridgewood.
    By Nora DeLigter
  7. A Golf Simulator Is Never Far Astroturf, projector screens, and men in deep concentration over their swings are taking over Manhattan (and some of Brooklyn).
    By Clio Chang
  8. An Inn From 1807 With a Separate Carriage House in Stone Ridge And a stunning post-and-beam home with warm stone and river views in High Falls.
    By Clio Chang
  9. A Hidden Artist’s Complex Behind Spring Street A screenwriter recruited friends to fix up a tenement in Nolita. In the half-century since, it’s housed artists, editors, and Laila Gohar.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  10. The Fight Over the Chrysler Building Is Getting Weird Aby Rosen’s RFR claims Cooper Union’s handling of student protests drove away tenants. Where is all of this heading?
    By Kim Velsey
  11. No One Wants to Live Near TikTokers From Dumbo to the West Village, brokers say hordes of content creators are giving clients cold feet.
    By Clio Chang
  12. The Panic About the Parapets A new regulation about roofline walls is making brownstone owners anxious. Does it apply to them? Can they get out of it? Are they being exploited?
    By Kim Velsey
  13. The Via Carota Chefs Are Selling Their West Village Apartment Jody Williams and Rita Sodi’s kitchen is appropriately stunning.
    By Kim Velsey
  14. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Ditmas Park Mansion Just Listed for $35,000 a Month It has a saltwater pool out back.
    By Clio Chang
  15. The Nantucket Buyers Betting Against Losing It All A waterfront house might last for two years or ten. These homeowners are willing to take the risk.
    By Kim Velsey
  16. A Frank Lloyd Wright Homage in Chappaqua Plus a four-bedroom Catskills A-frame cabin renovated by a food critic.
    By Clio Chang
  17. An Abandoned Red Hook Building Redesigned for a Cookbook Author An open kitchen on the top floor meant Jessie Sheehan could perfect her recipes and look out onto the New York Harbor.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  18. A Chelsea One-Bedroom With a Pool for Under a Million Plus a loftlike Park Slope one-bed with tin ceilings and two working fireplaces.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. The Apartment That Cereal Milk Built Is for Sale Christina Tosi and Will Guidara are selling their Chelsea floor-through for $5.895 million.
    By Clio Chang
  20. You Need to Earn More Than $200,000 a Year to Buy in New York City Which is actually slightly lower than last year.
    By Clio Chang
  21. Derek Lam Is Selling His Gramercy Park Apartment The fashion designer is listing his place — which he completely redesigned — at a nearly $1 million loss.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  22. So Far, the New Broker-Fee Rules Are Good for Sellers As for whether housing prices go down, don’t bet on it.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. A Crown Heights Three-Bedroom With a Roof Deck for Under a Million Plus some very appealing red pocket doors in Park Slope.
    By Clio Chang
  24. A Peacock Enclosure in Greenwich and Other Things We Dug Up This Week A new series on all the small but notable things we noticed from our sweep of real estate listings
    By Adriane Quinlan
  25. Ian Schrager Is Selling His Dumbo Loft For nearly the same price he bought it for seven years ago.
    By Clio Chang
  26. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom Plus Office for Under a Million Plus a true three-bedroom in Red Hook and a loftlike one-bed on the Lower East Side.
    By Kim Velsey
  27. What Even Is a Buyer’s Market These Days? And are we in one yet?
    By Kim Velsey
  28. The Flatiron Will Go Condo Plans have been revealed for a conversion to 60 very nice apartments, some of them pointy.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  29. An Upper West Side Studio That Can Pass for a One-Bedroom for $469,000 Plus a Horatio Street studio with a lovely shared garden and a Turtle Bay one-bedroom with a Juliet balcony.
    By Kim Velsey
  30. Everything We Know About the Federal Lawsuit Against RealPage The company is accused of running a nationwide “scheme with landlords to break the law.”
    By Bridget Read
  31. A Converted Church With 30-Foot Ceilings in Hudson And the mid-century home of Robert Sherman, a longtime classical-music radio host.
    By Clio Chang
  32. A Concert Pianist’s Duplex Penthouse With a Huge Private Terrace The acoustics at the Upper West Side studio building have regularly drawn pianists and opera stars.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  33. An Elizabethan-Style East Hampton Playhouse Is for Sale It was turned into a vacation home by a series of theater-obsessed owners.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  34. A West Village One-Bedroom With Exposed Brick for Under a Million Plus a four-bedroom Colonial house with a big backyard on City Island.
    By Clio Chang
  35. Everyone Knew About the A-Team How did the Alexander brothers become real-estate elites while allegedly raping or assaulting more than a dozen women?
    By Bridget Read and James D. Walsh
  36. Norman Mailer’s Old Apartment on the Promenade Is for Rent The shiplike $13,000-a-month two-bedroom sparked a bidding war last time it was available.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  37. The Billionaire vs. the Old Money On a coveted slice of Lake Michigan, a land swap has triggered a seething conflict over the malign influence of wealth.
    By Ben Ryder Howe
  38. Only Giuliani’s Real Estate Can Save Him Now Selling his Upper East Side co-op or Palm Beach condo may finally end his bankruptcy saga.
    By Clio Chang
  39. A Brooklyn Heights Two-Bedroom for Under a Million Plus a very affordable studio in the historic Master Apartments.
    By Clio Chang
  40. The Jennifer Lopez–Ben Affleck Real-Estate Shuffle A Manhattan sale, a solo purchase in Pacific Palisades, and one joint listing: their marital home in Beverly Hills.
    By Clio Chang
  41. A Mid-Century Ranch in Phoenicia With a Private Stream Plus an updated Gothic Revival in Catskill for $750,000.
    By Clio Chang
  42. A Sculptor’s Faux-Carriage House in Boerum Hill It was built out of the shell of an old mechanic’s shop.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  43. Louis CK Is Selling His Shelter Island House The renovated Tudor-style house is listed for $7 million more than he paid for it in 2014.
    By Clio Chang
  44. A Park Slope Two-Bedroom Next to Prospect Park for Under a Million Plus a City Island duplex with a pool.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. ‘The Baldwin Property Is Lovely, But …’ Brokers were a bit brutal about why Alec Baldwin’s Hamptons house isn’t selling.
    By Clio Chang
  46. An Immense Soho Townhouse That Was Used in a Beyoncé Video Its 40-foot pool, specifically.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  47. Jenni Kayne, Real-Estate Flipper Will her new shoppable farmhouse and spa in Tivoli be the next on the market?
    By Clio Chang
  48. A Two-Bedroom Bed-Stuy Duplex for Under $1 Million Plus a Tudor City one-bedroom with a working fireplace and lots of original details in Park Slope.
    By Clio Chang
  49. A Central Park South Studio With a Room of Windows for $770,000 Plus a charming little one-bed with garden views in historic Hudson Heights.
    By Clio Chang
  50. The Perfect Kitchen in Ridgewood Architectural designer Brianne Doak had one hard line when looking for a rental: no landlord specials.
    By Clio Chang
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