Following yesterday’s post about the most expensive home in Brooklyn’s Dumbo, Jed Bryne of Oak City CRE fame shot me a note asking about the typical land multiple that developers need in Canada in order to make a project feasible. In other words, if your… Read More
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The most expensive home in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood
The most expensive home in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood is currently under contract and is expected to close in the next few months (at least according to the WSJ). It is a 4,270 square-foot penthouse, with a 500 square-foot terrace, that occupies the full top floor… Read More
Per buildable square foot
Let’s say that you were comparing and thinking about buying two different pieces of development land. Both are about 25,000 square feet in size, but one is priced at $5 million and the other is priced at $50 million. If you were to calculate how… Read More
The tallest residential building in the world
Earlier this month, Extell Development Company announced the launch of sales for its Central Park Tower – which it is calling “the definitive New York skyscraper”, as well as the tallest residential building in the world. The project is located on Billionaire’s Row in NYC… Read More
Crazy home prices
This afternoon I walked the High Line with a friend of mine who seemed to know everything there is to know about new residential development in Manhattan. She recently purchased a place and so she had done her homework. She was pointing out every building… Read More
Revisiting Charlotte
Earlier this week, I wrote about the Charlotte Apartments in Berlin and tried to back into some of the numbers for the project. I wanted to compare the economics behind a mid-rise project in Berlin to one in Toronto. After I wrote that post I forwarded… Read More