• New York City posts notice of new tax levy to pied-a-terre owners,Richard Lawson

    New York City posts notice of new tax levy to pied-a-terre owners

    Tax attorneys and accountants are about to make bank helping owners of non-primary homes navigate New York City’s pied-à-terre tax notifications, which started landing in mailboxes before the weekend. “If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5 (million), check your mailbox when y

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  • Lot demand shifts to terms and timing at Forestar, Five Point,John McManus

    Lot demand shifts to terms and timing at Forestar, Five Point

    In 2024 and early 2025, homebuilders large, medium and small were smitten with the strategic notion of “land light.” In 2026, and for the near future, most everybody is more preoccupied, and rightly so, with “land right.” Many of the U.S.’s most prolific new-construction markets undergoing some form

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  • Ruth Reffkin launches Compass real estate team in NYC,Brooklee Han

    Ruth Reffkin launches Compass real estate team in NYC

    Although she’s no stranger to the real estate industry, Ruth Reffkin, the mother of Compass International Holdings founder and CEO Robert Reffkin, has decided to start her own real estate team. Reffkin announced the launch of her eponymous Ruth Reffkin Team, which will unsurprisingly be brokered by

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