Ruth Golod

Source: From Old Loading Docks to Luxury ‘Bay Houses’

Once a warehouse used by Chinese restaurants around the city, the neo-Renaissance-style building in TriBeCa is getting a gut renovation.

Source: Across the Atlantic and Up the Hudson

Priced out of owning an apartment in their Williamsburg neighborhood, one couple went on a suburban hunt for a new home.

Source: 2 Guys, 2 Sheepdogs, A Flock of Neighbors

Two men bought a fixer-upper in Bedford-Stuyvesant for themselves and, later, their Bergamasco sheepdogs. The house cost $376,000. Renovating it cost another $300,000.

On of the most prominent names in big time real estate investment, Tom Barrack, is selling out. Barrack has likened the real estate market in the US as one filled with amateurs. And, when amateurs are on the playing field, people are going to get hurt. This is the sentiment that Tom Barrack used in a recent article on CNN.com. Barrack manages $245 Billion in real estate holdings world wide and thinks that now is a great time to be selling US real estate and a terrible time to buy. I guess we will have to see if Barrack’s prediction about the real estate market is correct.