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  • Financing
    High Balance Conforming Loan Limit Are Changing
    Updated over 15 years ago
    The high balance conforming loan limits are going back down to $625,500 from $729,750 on September 30, 2011. Rates on jumbo financing on ARM products have about a 25...
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  • Anything
    Why I Will Defeat Paul Ryan
    Updated over 15 years ago
    Choices have consequences. Instead of taking on Big Oil and powerful Washington special interests, Paul Ryan chose to end Medicare. Plain and simple. Ryan's...
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  • Sales
    208 W 96-why units aren't selling or renting
    Updated over 15 years ago
    This building had four residential units for sale. None sold. Now they have some of the units as rentals but they haven't rented yet. I wondered why this was so I took...
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  • Rentals
    Never Seen so many housing projects
    Updated over 15 years ago
    After being in NYC i still have trouble understanding why there are SO many housing projects all over.... I have been to many places in my life I really believe NYC...
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  • Sales
    Does NY RE have exposure to ECB stress
    Updated over 15 years ago
    The real extent of the Greece crisis -- the necessary default-- has been widely reported. But the ECB exposure to default has been diminished except in some Euro...
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  • Sales
    Concord Village Brooklyn Heights
    Updated over 15 years ago
    With all the issues of C/0s, I'm thinking of looking into older, more established communities like Concord Village. I do notice though that the maintenance on this...
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  • Sales
    Windows on 123
    Updated over 15 years ago
    I think this is kaput. I have seen no work on this, and Corcoran does not even list it on their site at all, even though it should have been completed by now, and...
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