Co-op / Condo News: A Sort of Smoking Ban, Record Sales Prices, More

Read all the latest co-op /condo news for buyers, sellers and board members in Habitat's weekly Monday News Roundup. Also included: Permanent archival links. If a link ever goes dead, you'll still be able to read the backup at WebCitation.org.

Co-op / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...

• "Mayor's Push Could Ban Smoking at Home" by Jeremy Smerd (Crain's New York Business)

• "Mayor's New Bill Does NOT Ban Smoking Inside Apartments" by Teri Karush Rogers (BrickUnderground.com)

• "Cap Assessments on Co-ops" (Greenpoint Star op-ed)

• "Determined West Farms Tenants Band Together To Fix Up Neglected Bronx Slum Building, Work To Form Co-op"  by Daniel Beekman (New York Daily News)

• "Co-op City in Mortgage Talks: New Financing for Bronx Housing Complex Could Block Future Privatization Bid" by Eliot Brown (The Wall Street Journal)

• "Co-op Prices Reach New High," on an apartment's record-high sales price, by Josh Barbanel (The Wall Street Journal), and "Manhattan's $60 Million Apartment Will Be the Most Expensive Co-op Sale Ever" by Morgan Brennan (Forbes)

• "New York $50 Million Condo May Be Second Most Expensive" (ABC News)

• "The Hunt: A Co-op with Elbow Room" by Joyce Cohen (The New York Times)

• "Don't Try This at Home: Analyzing Comparables" by Malcolm Carter (Service You Can Trust blog)

• "Aniston Dumps NYC [Condos]" by Jennifer Gould Keil (New York Post)

Co-op / Condo Board Issues...

• "A Man Living in a Storage Room / Noisy Neighbor Needs Some Rugs" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)

WebCitation archives:

Smoking Ban • NOT Ban • Assessments • West Farms • Co-op City • New High • Most Expensive • Second Most Expensive • Elbow Room • Comparables • Aniston • Storage / Noisy

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