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A revised redevelopment proposal for Armonk’s Brynwood Golf & Country Club includes fewer housing units and some site changes. Mark Weingarten, an attorney for owner Brynwood Partners LLC, gave an overview of the changes at the North Castle Town Board’s meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 5. The housing changes include a cut in the units to 80, down from 88 in a previous iteration. The new unit mix includes 63 condos that would be market rate, 10 “Golf Cottages” that would be taxed like single-family homes and seven affordable housing units. Additionally, Weingarten discussed a potential alternative plan, which would involve keeping 80 on-site units but replace the affordable units with seven market-rate condos. In exchange, eight affordable units would be built off site. This scenario depends on whether offsite space could be found, Weingarten disclosed. The housing cut is the latest for Brynwood, which originally proposed 243 units. One notable measure calls for Brynwoo...

Demand for real estate is growing in many markets across the country. That’s great, but it creates competition in the form of all-cash offers, offers for thousands of dollars over list price, and a growing gap between affordability and prices in a given area. This dynamic only adds to the frustrations many buyers face in the market. If you are a part of the majority who are buying a home with financing, these following tips can help you solidify the deal. Note that price is certainly a factor — if not the factor — most sellers are concerned about. However, while price is crucial, there are other factors that can give you an advantage when you’re trying to secure an initial commitment from the seller.   1. Get the Right Lender Gone are the days when you could simply get pre-approved to buy a home , use that pre-approval letter to make offers and expect to get into contract quickly. Your loan officer’s reputation in the community is critical, especially among the agent...

Though recent MBS data indicates a slower spring buying season than many expected, the word on the street at FBR Capital ’s second annual Housing Recovery Conference was relatively positive, especially regarding how policy in the sector is working to support home price appreciation and a recovery of the housing market. Leaders from federal housing agencies, Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , and industry executives discussed the current state of the housing market and policy efforts, and came up with four key takeaways. Attendees wanted to continue efforts of policymakers to remove credit overlays, and to maintain a liquid MSR transfer market. There’s also an ongoing desire to attract private capital into the mortgage space — including support for the mortgage insurance industry and a desire to restart private-label securitization and expand credit risk transfers. This is a positive step, considering the recent Fannie Mae housing survey is trending negative to...

Banish those bare walls. Go from boring to unbelievable with a few creative tricks: Hang Plates The good china needn't stay behind the cabinet glass. Display plates or flea-market finds in a space where art would feel cramped, such as in the corner of a large kitchen or along a lengthy corridor. A casual assemblage of patterned and neutral plates delivers a visual bang that's homey. (For this project, pick up special wire hangers from the local hardware store.) Hang Plates Create a Gallery Let your wall express yourself. There are no rules saying everything needs the same frame or, better yet, that everything needs to be framed. Choose art, prints, and photos that tell a story about people, places, or things in your life. If you're hanging a grouping of art, maintaining two inches or more between frames on all sides is a good rule of thumb. Gallery Wall Transform A Stairway When it comes to hanging art, we often need to force ourselves to think beyond the li...

32 images <div class="gallery loaded"><a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2014/04/30/satsang-and-its-insane-indoor-pool-ask-20m-in-socal.php"><img src="http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/5360a640f92ea1611b029e48/22.jpeg" width="500" height="326"></a><br /><a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2014/04/30/satsang-and-its-insane-indoor-pool-ask-20m-in-socal.php" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div> Location: Yorba Linda, Calif. Price: $20,000,000 The Skinny: Apologies to the listing , but if you're looking for an "architectural masterpiece", move along, nothing to see here. If, however, you're looking for the best SoCal trainwreck since this rough beast slouched toward La Quinta, waiting to be sold, step right up and behold Satsang. This truly amazing home, which looks sort of like Richar...

Reversing four weeks of straight declines , mortgage applications climbed 4.3% from last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s weekly survey of mortgage activity for the week ending April 11, 2014. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 4.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. The Refinance Index increased 7% from the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 1% from one week earlier. The refinance share of mortgage activity increased to 52% of total applications from 51% the previous week. The adjustable-rate mortgage share of activity remained unchanged at 8% of total applications. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($417,000 or less) decreased to 4.47% from 4.56%, with points decreasing to 0.32 from 0.33 (including the origination fee) for 80% loan-to-value ratio loans. The effective rate decreased from last ...

12 images <div class="gallery loaded"><a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/08/here_now_brooklyns_10_most_expensive_apartments_for_rent.php"><img src="http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/534441c7f92ea17a8902e09b/69706880.jpg" width="500" height="334"></a><br /><a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/08/here_now_brooklyns_10_most_expensive_apartments_for_rent.php" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div> Attempting to round up the most expensive rental apartments in all of New York City leaves us with options that are only in Manhattan, asking upwards of $70,000 a month. But limiting the search to Brooklyn yields some slightly more accessible options; namely, the fanciest townhouses and chicest condos that the borough has to offer . We start with No. 10, the historic-looking y...

The bloom may be officially off the boom in investment sales as they declined in 2013 for a second straight year after soaring in 2011 at the height of the large foreclosure inventories. Investor purchases declined 15.9 percent last year from the 1.23 million sales peak set in 2011. Investment-home sales fell 8.5 percent to an estimated 1.10 million in 2013 from 1.21 million in 2012. By comparison, owner-occupied purchases rose 13.1 percent to 3.70 million last year from 3.27 million in 2012. The sales estimates are based on responses from households and exclude institutional investment activity according to NAR’s 2014 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey. NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said the pullback in investment activity is understandable. “Investment buyers slowed their purchasing in 2013 because prices were rising quickly along with a declining availability of discounted foreclosures over the course of the year,” he said. “In 2011 and 2012, investment property was...

Zillow Inc. is focusing on expanding on-the-go usage for StreetEasy.com, the New York City property-listings website it acquired in August , with plans to introduce a mobile application for more devices this year. Zillow will relaunch StreetEasy for the iPhone and add apps for Android and iPads, Chief Executive Officer Spencer Rascoff said. About one-third of StreetEasy traffic is from mobile devices, less than the two-thirds share for the Seattle-based parent company, he said. Zillow, which bought StreetEasy for $50 million and made the service free earlier this year, is seeking to boost the site's mobile usage as a growing number of New York apartment hunters search for property information on their phones and other devices. The plan is in line with a broader strategy within the company to bring in mobile users, Mr. Rascoff said. "We're a software company, not a brokerage," Mr. Rascoff said. "Our technology expertise is truly differentiated in mobile. It...

A recent report released by INRIX National Traffic revealed that Westchester County and New York City drivers spent approximately 53 hours snarled in traffic jams in 2013. The 53 hours in gridlock constitutes a 5 percent increase over the time spent in traffic in 2012. Among the worst traffic corridors in Westchester were: New York Hutchinson River Pkwy Northbound near Webster Ave, Exit 16 Mamaroneck Rd and Exit 22 Interstate 287 Westbound near Exit 9 The Top 10 Worst Cities for Traffic in America in 2013, along with total annual hours wasted in traffic, were: 1) Los Angeles (64 hours, up 5 hours from 2012) 2) Honolulu (60 hours, up 10 hours from 2012) 3) San Francisco (56 hours, up 7 hours from 2012) 4) Austin (41 hours, up 3 hours from 2012) 5) New York (53 hours, up 3 hours from 2012) 6) Bridgeport (42 hours, up 3 hours from 2012) 7) San Jose (35 hours, up 4 hours from 2012) 8) Seattle (37 hours, up 2 hours from 2012) 9) Boston (38 hours, up 7 hours from 2012) ...

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Photo courtesy of The Estate of Huguette M. Clark, from the book Empty Mansions via Bill Dedman Whereas mogul William A. Clark, a copper baron and politician who died in 1925, had exacting standards for his eye-popping mansions—his Fifth Avenue manor on NYC's 77th Street had 121 rooms, 30 bathrooms, and a golden chamber that well put the "gilded" in the Gilded Age—his daughter, reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, whose 2011 death spurred a tangle of slogging inheritance battles, siphoned her energies and cash into home details on a much tinier scale. One of her Japanese miniatures, for example, required getting special permission from the Japanese government to use rare cedar reserved solely for imperial buildings. She spent $80K to get it built. "You could call them dollhouses, but they were really historical art projects," said investigative reporter Bill Dedman, who—quite literally— wrote the book on Huguette Clark's houses, large and small. "Lik...

Freddie Mac ( OTCQB : FMCC ) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS ® ), reflecting that weaker housing data is putting downward pressure on average fixed mortgage rates. News Facts 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.23 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending February 6, 2014 , down from last week when it averaged 4.32 percent. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 3.53 percent. 15-year FRM this week averaged 3.33 percent with an average 0.7 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.40 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM averaged 2.77 percent. 5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) averaged 3.08 percent this week with an average 0.5 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.12 percent. A year ago, the 5-year ARM averaged 2.63 percent. 1-year Treasury-indexed ARM averaged 2.51 percent this week with an average 0.5 point, down from last week when it averaged 2.5...

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Armonk NY Real Estate Report RobReportBlog 2013 6 months ending 11/4 2012 74 Sales 53 up 39% $1,040,000.00 median sold price $875,000.00 up 18% $255,000.00 low sold price $150,000.00 $2,895,000.00 high sold price $9,300,000.00 3857 average size 3515 $309.00 ave. price per foot $352.00 down 12% 179 ave days on market 187 $1,179,609.00 average sold price $1,297,501.00