Nonsponsored Sandy Recovery Is Driving Up Property Taxes In Coastal Communities A boarded up home. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Homeowners in Superstorm Sandy-impacted neighborhoods, who are seeing the first measurable signs of progress in the city’s Build it Back program, may experience a spike this year in their property taxes due to storm recovery efforts. “This past year, you
home prices Conflicting Ideas On The 2012-2013 Housing Market In Kensington & Ditmas Park As people who compile real estate roundups on a weekly basis and are consistently surprised by how the rapidly the reasonably-priced apartment pool is narrowing, we just assumed prices on local residential properties for sale were rising accordingly (a la 114 Wesminster Road, 147 Rugby Road, the gorgeous but worse
fair housing act On Rezoning and Property Values Tonight is the latest chance to offer feedback to the Community Education Committee (CEC) on their rezoning plan for Park Slope’s public elementary schools. Previous meetings have seen many legitimate objections raised, but one largely unspoken complaint underlies every discussion: property values. Those who bought houses or apartments in
property values Up and Down and Up Again: A Brief History of Stoops How much is your stoop worth? Unsurprisingly, quite a lot. Surprisingly, it hasn’t always been that way. The New York Times has a story today about the history of stoops, and while I would have predicted it would be a very short article (Stoops: They Were Built), I would
