Massive Multi-Family Portfolio goes to Creditors

New York City’s most well known blue collar neighborhood has been given to its creditors. Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, a massive portfolio of 110 buildings and 11,227 units located on the East River in Manhattan was controlled by Tishman Spyer Properties and Blackrock Realty. Once hailed as the most expensive deal in the […]

Apartment Deals.

Just a quick observation for anyone looking in South Boston. I was just going through our apartment database (southie’s largest) and noticed a decent amount of 1 bedroom apartments that are under $1,000.
Click here to check them out.

Protecting Tenants - Foreclosure Act of 2009

I ran into this the other day while looking at a Multi-Family that was in foreclosure and thought it might be of benefit.
The Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 was sponsored by, soon to be retired, Sen. Dodd (D-CT) and is supposed to help tenants caught up in this current wave of foreclosures. […]

Renters Insurance

I’m going to hear this question daily, come January 15th, when every student in the city returns and starts looking for a new apartment for next fall, “Should I get Renters Insurance?”.
My answer is always this, “Can you afford to replace all your stuff in a worse case scenario?”. I always get a blank […]

Zillow Adds Apartment Feature to Website

Seems with the residential market plodding along slowly that Zillow has decided to add rental listings to its website as a new feature. I just did a quick search of the Boston area and found a whopping 5 apartments available for rent. Yes, I know that the feature is new and that more listings will […]