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What Really Brings People Back to the Office? The Easiest Commute.

 Forget the rock-climbing wall. People just want an easy commute. By Kim Velsey
  1. A Trailer in the Hamptons Sells for $3.75 Million Neighbors include a hedge-fund billionaire and the co-founder of Vitaminwater.
    By Clio Chang
  2. A Country Home in the Middle of Bed-Stuy It has a finished attic, four fireplaces, and a peach tree in the backyard.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  3. Nathan’s Famous Exec and Snapple Heir Face Off in Sagaponack Over a $14.5 million property-deed typo.
    By Clio Chang
  4. Related Probably Wishes It Never Uncovered These Archeological Findings “This is legitimately old.”
    By Clio Chang
  5. Boomer Dads Are Driving Real Estate Agents Nuts “They have an annoying tendency to present themselves as experts on all aspects of home buying based on their own, actually inexpert logic.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  6. The Atlanta Realtor Who Gets Her Advice From Arnold Schwarzenegger “He told me, ‘You need a brand.’ That’s what my cowboy hat and my nickname, ‘Rodeo,’ have become.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  7. Manhattan Rents Went Up Instead of Down The January median reached $4,097.
    By Clio Chang
  8. The Nepo Babies Forced Into Real Estate Cry for the lives unlived.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  9. Joan Didion’s Apartment Is for Sale Missed out on the estate auction? Seven and a half million dollars will get you the whole house.
    By Kim Velsey and Christopher Bonanos
  10. New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much? Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
    By Lane Brown
  11. A Turtle Bay Townhouse With Wall-to-Wall Windows And a 400-square-foot balcony on every floor
    By Adriane Quinlan
  12. A Queens Co-Op Full of Electricians It remains basically as it was imagined in 1949: a surprisingly affordable city-within-a-city.
    By Kayla Levy
  13. A Two-story Condo in a Former Parish House The doorman stand is the original priest’s pulpit.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  14. Rent It for the James Turrell Installation Hugh Jackman’s East Hampton retreat asks $500,000 for the summer.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  15. The Casino–Apartment–Ferris-Wheel–Hotel Proposal for Midtown East Is Stefan Soloviev’s plan a jackpot or a bust?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  16. The Mexico City Realtor Selling Penthouses Without Bathrooms “They start around $6 million and have nothing in them — not even a floor or a toilet.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  17. Compass Is Doing Totally Fine, Okay? It’s just subleasing its headquarters and doing a third round of layoffs.
    By Clio Chang
  18. An Entirely Wood-Paneled Condo The very 1960s apartment comes with very 1960s furniture.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  19. A Tiny House on Top of a Co-op The former boiler room of the Prince George Hotel looks like a cozy attic garret.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. What Do A-Rod, Barbara Corcoran, and Michael Cohen Have in Common? The same Avenue D apartment building.
    By Clio Chang
  21. What Should New York Homebuyers Expect in 2023? Fewer bidding wars, but also fewer options overall.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  22. Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2022 They included bitter real-estate feuds, our deep dive into trash, and a report from Caroline Calloway’s drawn-out good-bye to the city.
    By Curbed Staff
  23. The Year in Rent Breaking down the 12 months in which everything got more expensive, then more expensive, and then even more expensive.
    By Clio Chang
  24. Richard Gere’s Cell Tower Is Upsetting Rooney Mara’s Mother The wealthy town of Bedford is in absolute disarray.
    By Clio Chang
  25. Please Be Careful With Steve Wynn’s Picassos Interested buyers should keep their elbows to themselves while viewing the Vegas tycoon’s $90 million duplex.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  26. The 23-Year-Old Queen of Real-Estate TikTok As New York’s luxury market cools, Lizza Prigozhina is helping panicked agents sell another asset: themselves.
    By Bridget Read
  27. A Jamaica Estates Home With a 32-Foot-Long Indoor Pool And too many Jacuzzis to count.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  28. Hamish Bowles’s Over-the-top Co-op Is for Sale The Greenwich Village two-bedroom has a trompe-l’oeil doorknob.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  29. The Kuwaiti Government Raised Carolines’s Rent A surprising end for the beloved comedy club.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  30. Libbie Mugrabi Has Mansion Problems The socialite is facing eviction on the Upper East Side. Her Water Mill compound is an even bigger mess.
    By Clio Chang
  31. What Is Going on With Twitter’s Horrible Headquarters? The company’s San Francisco landlord is struggling to refinance. And workers are being invited to sleep in conference rooms.
    By Clio Chang
  32. Now You Can Live in a Crypto Office A crypto-mining firm’s former Hudson Yards space is marketed as the $19.5 million home of your dreams.
    By Clio Chang
  33. From the Archives: When Soho Was Imperiled “Artists came to Soho because it was ignored and cheap. Now it is no longer ignored, and soon it will not be cheap.”
    By Peter Hellman
  34. The Messy Real-Estate Fallout From FTX’s Implosion A running list.
    By Curbed Staff
  35. ‘We Were Called Gentrifiers, and We Were Called NIMBYs’ Councilmember Julie Won on how the largest private affordable-housing development in Queens history was won.
    By Bridget Read
  36. Margaritaville Was Supposed to Have a Synagogue And now the developer of the Times Square resort is being sued by the 91-year-old congregation.
    By Clio Chang
  37. You Can Finally Buy Derek Jeter’s Castle An $8 million price cut means your time has come.
    By Clio Chang
  38. The Office Is Half-Dead Or half-alive, depending on how you want to interpret the latest data.
    By Clio Chang
  39. ‘If You Can’t Exclude Someone, Do You Even Own It?’ New York City’s landlords say they’re fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of eviction.
    By Molly Osberg
  40. Ivana Trump’s Townhouse Is Officially for Sale And it’s overpriced.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. An Upper East Side Penthouse That Feels Like a Baroque French Manor Almost every inch of this three-bedroom apartment, with its hand-painted murals, painted columns, and coffered ceilings, has been embellished.
    By Ariel Norling
  42. Tenants in Kingston Just Gave Themselves a Rent Reduction And landlords are suing.
    By Clio Chang
  43. From the Archives: We Renovated Our Own Brownstone — It Was a Million Laughs “When someone asks was it worth it, I say yes, because while my arm didn’t heal properly, the ceiling job is beautiful.”
    By Fred Powledge
  44. Why These $20 Million Uptown Co-ops Aren’t Selling “In the past, big money needed co-ops to be accepted and established, But no one needs 740 Park anymore.”
    By Kim Velsey
  45. The Mennonite Airbnb Hustler of Upper Manhattan Konrad Bicher, calling himself “the Wolf of Airbnb,” ran a sublet scheme that made him rich — for a while.
    By James D. Walsh
  46. We’re Getting Closer to a Martian Housing Market Nine subterranean caves have been identified as potentially suitable habitats, if you’re into that kind of thing.
    By Clio Chang
  47. What Could Go Wrong With Crypto Island Just three NFTs can buy you a villa and great offshore-banking access on the site of the Fyre Festival.
    By Bridget Read
  48. From the Archives: When Williamsburg Became the New Bohemia A portrait of an artists’ colony in Brooklyn, circa 1992.
    By Brad Gooch
  49. 1 Oak Was Evicted And it apparently came as a surprise.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Sag Harbor Worried About Becoming Port Jefferson And a group of residents is suing over an affordable-housing development.
    By Clio Chang
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