• Mamdani’s first 100 days reshape City Hall’s real estate
calculus,
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    Mamdani’s first 100 days reshape City Hall’s real estate calculus

    Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first 100 days offer a preview of how City Hall plans to engage — and to some extent, antagonize — the real estate industry. The Democratic Socialist has leaned into tenant advocacy while signaling a pro-development stance, a balancing act that has pleased housing activists an

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  • Cobble Hill’s luxury moment is just getting started,
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    Cobble Hill’s luxury moment is just getting started

    Cobble Hill’s property premiums just keep going up. Earlier this week, news broke that actors Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz sold their home at 22 Strong Place for nearly $12 million — almost double the $6.8 million they paid for it nine years ago. The deal surfaced in public records just as another

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  • “Good Zohran” surfaces for real estate Q & A,
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    “Good Zohran” surfaces for real estate Q & A

    From real estate’s perspective, there’s a Good Zohran and a Bad Zohran. Bad Zohran tries to devalue properties to freeze rents, which the 2019 rent law already did. Bad Zohran holds “rental ripoff” hearings. Bad Zohran plans to stall sales of distressed buildings to give the “community” a chance to

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