Summary Of Solving The Foreclosure Crisis

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How would you react if someone had told you on the streets of Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan, “Make a wish, and your wish will turn into reality?” If luck by chance you had wished for owning a property at Gateway Plaza, a high-rise apartment complex on Battery Park City; your wish is just 1 millimeters apart. Inside the article, by Daniel Trotta, “Buyers rejoice: Manhattan home prices finally fall,” Trotta stated Manhattan brokers kept on stating prices are going up, while the prices were actually going down. Concurrently, as Manhattan brokers claimed the price of an average apartment to be near $1.5 million, New Yorkers were rejoicing the fact that their wish is soon becoming true. Whether it is located in Soho, Harlem, Upper East Side, …show more content…

Reports poring from all over the places are shouting that metropolitan areas knocked by almost by 24 percent (%) from their highest in May 2006 to October 2008, according to Standard and Poor's S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, as it is stated on the article. If that is indeed the case, then 24% out of $1.5 million turns out to be approximately $ 1.1 million dollars. If one even negotiates more with the broker, then you may just wind up shelling out about close to a cool million bucks for a lovely 2 bedroom apartment. This is actually not so grisly, when compared to prices of other neighborhoods such as Brooklyn Heights, great range of agricultural styles; Park Slope, one of America’s top 10 neighborhoods; Bensonhurst, a rich Italian neighborhood; and Bay Ridge, posh apartments. Take the case study in Bensonhurst for instance, where apartment prices ranges from 700k – 1.2 million dollar mark for a 1-1.5 bedrooms. With easy access to/from the Belt Parkway, which also runs along the bay, car owners in Bensonhurst have it an easy route. Many subway lines also service the neighborhood, connecting it to Prospect Park, the Atlantic Ocean beaches, and many of Brooklyn's other highlights. Bensonhurst is especially ideal for residents who are Brooklyn-based, especially for those, who …show more content…

You still have to wake up and smell that fresh brewed coffee. To put actual truth before everyone’s presence, people from other states, were also showing interests in possessing their own house/apartment in Manna-hata (1609), Manhattan (2009). Take Michael Germano for a demonstration, a Smith Barney financial adviser in Pennsylvania, looked through a dozens of half-million-dollar apartments back home in Pennsylvania at the size of a “walk-in closet,” couldn’t really find his type of choice. Inside the article “Buyers Rejoice,” Mr. Germano cited that he went to one of the New York City’s brokerage website and did research on it. "I pulled up one of the major New York brokerage firm's websites, and did a search. That same search a couple weeks ago returned about three pages of listings and the other night it returned six pages, and the prices have come down noticeably over a couple of weeks." Moreover, Germano had also proclaimed that he had got a seller lately to reduce his price by one-third, but he is still rummaging around for another deal to stake on. Alternatively, it has been discovered that the average prices of units that are actually under the contract are not yet have fallen close to 20 % since August 2008. This affordable housing concept in Manhattan has a quite resemblance in contrast to housing in

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