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Barbara Corcoran's Q + A ~ New York Times Real Estate:

Ask Barbara: Renovate bathrooms and you'll clean up

6/11/2009 6:45 PM

My wife and I have a 900-square-foot, two bedroom, one-and-a-half bath duplex condo that's in need of some renovations. We have a limited budget and want to spend our dollars wisely....Read More

Ask Barbara: What's the best way to find reputable landscaper?

6/4/2009 2:03 PM

Q: I own a Colonial-style 4-bedroom, 2½-bathroom home on an acre of land in the Poconos. I?ve had it for 11 years now but it has never been landscaped. How can I find a reputable landscaper? Most of the ones I?ve contacted don?t seem serious enough to come out and give u...Read More

Ask Barbara: Planning an inside job? Get affordable advice

5/28/2009 4:06 PM

Q I plan to do some minor renovations in my two-bedroom co-op apartment in Queens that include installing hardwood floors throughout, repainting and buying a new sofa set. I read that getting a color scheme from existing objects in the room (perhaps my life-sized jukebox) is a good start. However, ...Read More

Ask Barbara: Sell co-op before you jump in lake market

5/21/2009 3:59 PM

Q We?ve bought a house we really like at Lake St. George, where we plan to retire. We paid all cash with the money we?ve saved while living in Queens. We?re ready to move, but my wife wants to wait until we sell our co-op before we move on, because she thinks we?ll get less for an empty apartment...Read More

Ask Barbara: A caution to investors

5/21/2009 11:49 AM

Q: I would like to take $50,000 of my inheritance and start investing in real estate. Where should I start...Read More

Barbara Corcoran's Q + A ~ New York Times Real Estate:

The New County Squires

7/3/2009 9:43 PM

City renters are taking their money to where the grass is truly greener. They are buying weekend homes.

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Habitats: The Traveling Circus Stops Here

7/3/2009 9:45 PM

Two clowns who perform in some of the most troubled places on earth practice in a walk-up near 128th Street.

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Streetscapes | 440 East 56th Street: For a Lullaby, the Bip-Bop-Bip of Tennis Balls

7/3/2009 9:58 PM

The apartment building at 440 East 56th Street is an exemplar of how modernism and humanism can coexist.

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Posting: Take That, Billy Burg!

7/3/2009 10:00 PM

The cartoon mascot representing Jackson Heights, Queens, has re-emerged as the star of a comic strip.

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Mortgages: Securing a Jumbo: No Small Task

7/3/2009 9:59 PM

The nonconforming “jumbo” mortgage, which exceeds the conventional “conforming” loan limit of $729,750 set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is becoming more difficult to obtain.

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Big Deal: Pooh to the Plaza

7/3/2009 9:46 PM

Property records filed last week show that a corporation linked to Andrei Vavilov closed on the purchase of a penthouse at Time Warner Center for $37 million.

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Big Deal: The $18 Million Fixer-Upper

7/3/2009 9:46 PM

A penthouse atop the Trump International Hotel and Tower owned by the financially troubled Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori is in contract to sell for $18 million.

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Away: A Jazz Voice Finds a Mellower Range

7/3/2009 3:05 AM

When it’s time for the jazz singer Sheila Jordan to work on arrangements, she heads to Middleburgh, N.Y.

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Organic Farms as Subdivision Amenities

7/1/2009 9:53 AM

Developers are trying to make lots more attractive by putting crops in the ground.

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International Real Estate: For Sale in ... Iceland

7/2/2009 12:09 AM

Iceland’s real estate market boomed for much of the last decade, but now many people are being forced to sell.

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