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1 week ago | 
therealdeal.com | Jake Indursky |Matthew Elo |Joseph Jungermann
For architects, 2024 was a tale in two parts. They spent the first half stuck in the mud as developers waited for housing policy clarity and the second half in a welcome return to form. “In the second half, we started getting some movement — some market-rate housing, office conversions into housing and different things like that — as people started to learn about these new abatements and new affordability programs,” Aufgang principal Ariel Aufgang said.
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1 week ago | 
therealdeal.com | Suzannah Cavanaugh |Matthew Elo |Joseph Jungermann
Tariffs have dominated the headlines and terrified Wall Street, but the city’s biggest general contractors insist they’re not feeling the pain. “I haven’t paid a tariff yet,” boasted Bernard Ruf, president of Broadway Builders, which ranked 12th in TRD’s annual count of the city’s top construction firms. It has 1.5 million square feet under development. “Right now, it’s still just a discussion,” echoed Eli Weiss of Joy Construction, which took 10th place with over 1.8 million square feet.
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1 month ago | 
therealdeal.com | Jake Indursky |Sheridan Wall |Matthew Elo |Joseph Jungermann
Sitting in Sant Ambroeus in the West Village, Zeve Salman looked out longingly onto the row of eight-figure homes lining Perry Street. “If you gave me five new houses on this street right here, I could sell them,” he said. “But find me those five houses.”Salman, a co-founder of the Elevated Team with Eric Brown at Compass, echoed a refrain common in 2024, chalking up the market’s troubles to a lack of quality inventory.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Judah Duke |Joseph Jungermann
In Dallas, where resilience largely defined the real estate market over the past year, top brokers navigated shifting conditions to keep the deals flowing. Top residential real estate brokers banked on Dallas’ enduring appeal as a business hub.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Kelli Duncan |Joseph Jungermann
Chicago’s top 20 residential agents and brokers pulled in a collective $2.8 billion in sales volume across 3,435 deals in the past year, back to 2022 levels after a slow 2023. They did this all while navigating high interest rates, broker commission policy changes and low inventory. Matt Laricy’s team at Americorp Real Estate moved up from second place to top the chart this year with $269.5 million in sales across nearly 500 deals, an increase from 423 deals totaling $216.6 million last year.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Kate Hinsche |Joseph Jungermann
To talk with Miami’s real estate agents is to get the sense that their market is El Dorado, and its riches are for the hustlers selling the city of gold. While other key U.S. markets slowed and stumbled, Miami’s top brokers posted record numbers, thanks to a series of deals involving buyers such as billionaire Jeff Bezos, consumer goods magnate Anand Khubani and David and Victoria Beckham.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Kelli Duncan |Joseph Jungermann
Local firm @properties Christie’s International Real Estate again claimed the title of top brokerage in Chicagoland this year, but Compass is narrowing the gap with significant sales growth. @properties has been on top in Chicago for nearly a decade since rising through the ranks after the 2008 market crash, but a meteoric rise by Compass since it arrived in the Windy City in 2017 may just change that in the coming years.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Emily Landes |Joseph Jungermann
Compass agent Neal Ward said he was “anxious inside” as San Francisco’s spring season kicked off this year. But when his $15 million Presidio Heights and $9 million Presidio Terrace listings hit the market in March and got 15 showings apiece in their first week, he was able to breathe again. “The high-net-worth buyer is back,” Ward said, adding that last year those same listings would have had fewer than 5 showings over several weeks.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Kari Hamanaka |Joseph Jungermann
It’s been a tough stretch for Los Angeles’ residential brokers, but that hasn’t stopped its top dealmakers from closing. Brokers have faced high interest rates, uncertainty around the National Association of Realtors’ new rules, insurers fleeing the state and the city’s Measure ULA transfer tax. “Because of ULA, Beverly Hills and Malibu have commanded the most sales and the highest prices,” The Beverly Hills Estates CEO Rayni Williams said.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
therealdeal.com | Orion Jones |Joseph Jungermann
This year, with the pandemic further away in the rearview mirror, the direction of New York architecture was determined more by state and city housing policy. Multifamily housing production suffered a second dismal year due to the state legislature’s failure last summer to replace the expired 421a tax abatement, which had balanced the city’s requirement for new below-market-rate housing with developers’ bottom lines until it expired in June 2022.
