Co-op / Condo News: Price Floors, Staff Awards, Rape Suit Against Condo Board
Oct. 22, 2012 — Recent news affecting co-op / condo buyers, sellers, boards and residents. This week, the rape victim at an Upper West Side, doorman high-rise sues the condo board, the managing agent and others after the building staff did not investigate the delivery person's excessively long stay. Plus, more on co-op price floor, the building-workers union honors its own, and why the super-rich pay less in property taxes, percentage-wise, than working-class New Yorkers. Hint: It has to do with that Dept. of Finance factor called "comparables."
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 or Archive.org.
Co-op / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...
- "Hell, No, Not So Low," on co-op sale-price floors, by Megan McArdle (The Daily Beast)
- "As Prices Soar to Buy a Luxury Address, the Tax Bills Don’t," on quirk in Dept. of Finance appraisal rules that favors high-end co-ops and condos, by by Elizabeth A. Harris (The New York Times)
- "32BJ SEIU Honors Service Workers at Awards Gala" by Stephon Johnson (New York Amsterdam News)
- "Ask an Expert: Will a co-op board turn me down because I'm divorced?" by Teri Karush Rogers (BrickUnderground.com)
- "Co-op Unit Loses Parking Space" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)
- "Roosevelt Island Complex to Go Co-op" (New York Business Journal) and "Roosevelt Island Tenants Get Rare Chance to Buy" by Amanda Fung (Crain's New York Business)
- "Professional Inspections Routine. . . Elsewhere" by Malcolm Carter (Service You Can Trust blog)
- "Inside Nicole Kidman’s [Condominium] Building – Where You Can Drive Up to Your Living Room" by Jason Sheftell (New York Daily News)
Co-op / Condo Board Issues...
- "Pizza-Delivery Rape Victim to Sue Condo Board, Management Company and Doorman of Upper West Side Building" by Shayna Jacobs (New York Daily News) and "Woman Allegedly Raped by Pizza Delivery Boy Files Lawsuit" by Aidan Gardiner (DNAInfo.com)
- "Pricing Co-op Common Space" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)
- "Apthorp [Condo-Board] Vote Relieves Building Sponsors of Some Financial Obligations" by David Jones (TheRealDeal.com)
WebCitation archives:
Hell, No • As Prices Soar • 32BJ • Ask an Expert • Parking Space • Roosevelt Island Complex • Roosevelt Island Tenants • Professional • Nicole Kidman • Pizza-Delivery Rape Victim • Woman Allegedly Raped • Common Space • Apthorp