Real estate

$1.01 MILLION 959 Cauldwell Avenue (at East 164th Street) The Bronx This 3,404-square-foot, single-story church property in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx has 137 feet of wraparound frontage. The Bronx Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses had occupied the building since 1968, the year it was built. Buyer: Haitian Baptist Community Church Buyer’s Broker: Marga Caceres of R New York Seller: Bronx Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses Seller’s Brokers: Jonathan Squires, Michael Fioravanti, Josh Neustadter, Addison Berniker and Shayne Soltan of Cushman & Wakefield $34/SQ. FT. $212,500 approximate annual rent 31 Washington Street (between Plymouth and Water Streets) Brooklyn B-Reel, an international creative agency, signed a seven-year lease in a newly renovated, 35,978-square-foot building in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. The building has six stories, five of which are condominiums. The agency will occupy the 6,250-square-foot ground floor, … [Read more...] about Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] When Jo Ellen Pellman and her roommate searched for an apartment in New York City this summer, the two women dug deep into their pockets: They paid brokers a total of $1,200 in nonrefundable application fees, or $400 for each apartment they applied for. But the roommates may get most of their money back, a rare happy outcome in today’s costly real estate market, after state regulators declared last week that real estate brokers must abide by a recently enacted $20 limit on application fees. “We got $800 back, which is very awesome,” said Ms. Pellman, 23, an actor who moved to a two-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn this month. Months after New York passed sweeping tenant protections, including the $20 ceiling on application fees, many real estate brokers across New York City continued to charge renters like Ms. Pellman hundreds of dollars to apply for an … [Read more...] about Does Your Real Estate Broker Owe You a Refund?

Business aside, it was a fun way to showcase a fun property, Lewis said."I've had this idea for a few years and just needed the right client and the right house to pull it off," he said. "After I saw the video and the photos I thought it was funny and was hopeful other people would think it was funny too. I expected a lot of people to see it, but never expected this huge of a response." Realtor.com listed it as the site's most-popular listing last week. This week, it's the third-most viewed property in the world, trailing The Brady Bunch home in Studio City, Calif., and an "LSU house" in Metairie, La. The Granbury house's sale is pending, according to the listing. The fact that the property ranked No. 1 on Realtor.com was "crazy," Lewis said."Most of the homes that are No. 1 features are either insanely popular like the Brady Bunch house or owned by a celebrity or are extremely extravagant," he said. "They're not $89,900, two-bedroom lake houses in Granbury, Texas."It's … [Read more...] about How can a T. rex sell a house? A Mansfield real-estate agent found a way and it’s a viral sensation

SalesHigh Street Realty Co. purchased a three-building, 177,055-square-foot business park at 1100 Eden Road in Arlington. Lizzy Blake of Colliers International brokered the sale. It's High Street Realty's second recent purchase in the area. An investor bought the Next Century Dental Southlake building, an 8,100-square-foot office property at 2680 E. State Highway 114 in Southlake. Cody Payne and Ross L. Meisner of Marcus & Millichap brokered the sale.A North Texas-based private investor purchased the Trinity Court apartments, a 26-unit rental community in Dallas' Vickery Meadow neighborhood east of U.S. Highway 75. Jordan Cortez of Vanguard Real Estate Advisors brokered the sale.LeasesBetter Home Products expanded its lease to 179,875 square feet of industrial space at Great Southwest Distribution Center, 600 109th St., in Arlington. Transwestern's John Brewer negotiated the lease.TFI International leased 101,000 square feet of industrial space at 9000 North Royal Lane in … [Read more...] about Top D-FW commercial real estate deals for the week of July 30

A Houston real estate firm with a track record in Collin County has purchased land for a project in McKinney. Sentinel Capital LLC bought a 37-acre tract next door to McKinney National Airport with plans for an industrial park.The property on FM 546 was purchased from Kone, the international elevator firm which has a regional office in Allen."McKinney is one of the fastest-growing communities in North Texas with no signs of slowing down," Michael Haggar with commercial property firm JLL said in a statement. "Its strategic placement paired with the area's projected continued growth make this transaction a tremendous investment opportunity for the new owners."JLL's Craig Phelps and Haggar brokered the sale. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Sentinel Capital in Allen is a partner in the development of the 22.5-acre AllenPlace office park on U.S. Highway 75.Kone located its North Texas regional office in a new building at the AllenPlace campus. The sale of the McKinney … [Read more...] about Houston real estate developer lands at McKinney airport with property buy