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3 days ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall |Matthew Elo
Irina Shayk has finally parted with her West Village condo. The Russian supermodel sold her apartment at 166 Perry Street for $3.25 million, or roughly $1,300 per square foot, according to public records. The deal came nearly a decade after Shayk initially sought to offload the duplex and was $1 million less than she asked for the unit when it hit the market again last summer.
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5 days ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall |Matthew Elo
New York City is cracking down on brokers’ fees, but by all appearances, renting in the five boroughs is still the Wild West. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection proposed levying fines starting at $750 against brokers and landlords charging a fee to tenants who didn’t expressly hire the agent, Crain’s New York reported.
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1 week ago | 
therealdeal.com | Katherine Kallergis |Sheridan Wall |Ellen Cranley
Tal Alexander is trying to call the shots in his estranged marriage from a Brooklyn jail as he awaits his federal sex trafficking trial, The Real Deal has learned. A recent filing in the couple’s divorce case includes messages he sent from the Metropolitan Detention Center in which he allegedly threatens his wife, Arielle, to “think twice” about moving forward with a divorce and describes himself as the victim. Arielle is currently fighting to divorce Tal in New York courts.
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1 week ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall |Matthew Elo
A broker once told me he objected to the term “luxury” to describe one segment of the New York City market — with the steep cost of housing across the five boroughs, owning a home at all is a luxury. It was an especially grounded take for an agent who’s built his career selling eight-figure townhouses in the West Village, and one echoed in a recent Redfin report measuring the gap between the income required to purchase a home versus rent across New York, Newark and Jersey City.
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2 weeks ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall
Across the East River, deal prices are reaching new heights, and the competition for homes is fierce. Brooklyn’s median and average sale prices hit all-time highs in the first quarter, according to Miller Samuel’s report on condos, co-ops and one- to three- family homes for Douglas Elliman. The records came as sales in the borough continued to climb, as the number of homes on the market remained slightly below the decade average. “The market is lean,” said report author Jonathan Miller.
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2 weeks ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall
Following Compass’ controversial private exclusive listings, competing brokerages are jumping on the bandwagon. Douglas Elliman announced on Monday that it plans to launch its own platform for agents to market their clients’ homes internally before listing them on the MLS, according to an email obtained by The Real Deal. Elliman’s private exclusives database, called Black Label, comes a few weeks after Corcoran introduced its own version, dubbed Reserve. Elliman’s platform is not yet live.
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2 weeks ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall |Jake Indursky
After months of battle, Move Inc. and CoStar Group are lowering their weapons — at least in the courtroom. Move filed to drop a lawsuit against CoStar, the parent company of Homes.com, that claimed it stole trade secrets from Move’s subsidiary, Realtor.com, according to a dismissal motion submitted to a Los Angeles federal court on Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall
A sprawling co-op across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art scored the top inked deal in Manhattan last week. The apartment at 1010 Fifth Avenue, asking just under $17 million, was the most expensive of 27 homes in the borough asking $4 million or more to find buyers between March 31 and April 6, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly report. The total was down from 45 contracts signed in the previous period.
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2 weeks ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall
Billionaire Ken Griffin is on the hook for enough annual property taxes on his 220 Central Park South penthouse to buy a home on the Lower East Side. The hedge funder owed more than $860,000 for the year starting July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, according to a report by Property Shark tracking the most expensive property tax bills in New York City. Griffin’s is second only to the former Emir of Qatar, who owes $984,000 connected to a compound on East 72nd Street.
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2 weeks ago | 
therealdeal.com | Sheridan Wall
As they await their criminal trial in a Brooklyn jail, disgraced brokers Tal and Oren Alexander are still tangled in legal issues with Side, the firm backing their brokerage. The white-label firm sued the Alexanders and Official Partners in October, as sexual assault allegations were stacking up against them and their brother Alon. In the lawsuit, Side claimed the co-founders hadn’t made payments on a $5 million loan the firm provided to launch Official in 2022. But the Alexanders hit back hard.
