Townhouse Lifestyles Blog

Townhouses for Sale!303 West 90th Street$5,500,000Build the Manhattan Townhouse you’ve always dreamed of in this extra-wide, five-story mansion designed by noted 19th century architect Clarence True. The impressive façade features ornate neoclassical curls in the Beaux-Arts style, exquisitely-crafted wrought iron Juliet balcony railings, a decorative front archway that announces the...

Thank you to our loyal readers of "Monday's with Dexter"!Would you be willing to tell us why you like to read our weekly newsletter? We would like to publish a special edition of Monday's with Dexterwith your testimonials, and include them on our website, as well.All submissions will automatically be...

317 West 77th Street$4,250,000This original façade, six-story new york brownstone, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper Westside, provides a bounty of uniquely restful features. The floor-through apartments on the garden and parlour level unite to form a spectacular future owner’s unit, with two working fireplaces, a private back garden, a...

Friends,As the New York Times reported last week, my wife and I had success removing a supposed rent-control tenant from the parlour floor of our townhouse. Click on this link to see the article.As you know, I often extol the benefits of buying a townhouse that has rent-stabilized or rent-control...

(Part Three of Three)"Now I will just mention just a word or two about Harlem. It's a big place, and I started to do a survey there as well. I do six zip codes. This year, there was one closing for a house we sold for $2.575M. It was the...

Excerpts From My Presentation on the Upper West Side Townhouse Market at the Brownstone Revival Coalition Seminar on June 9, 2009(Part Two of Three)" We also track in a publication called "Mondays with Dexter." How many people get that? It's a weekly email. If you don't get it, you can...

Excerpts From My Presentation on the Upper West Side Townhouse Market at the Brownstone Revival Coalition Seminar on June 9, 2009(Part One of Three)" I'm Dexter Guerrieri, and I'm going to be wearing a couple of hats tonight. As the Chair of the Brownstone Rival Coalition, I'll introduce our guest...

"TOWN HOUSE, DREAM HOUSE"By JOSH BARBANELPublished: June14, 2009. New York Times THE backlog of expensive Manhattan apartments and houses has begun to shrink, brokers say, after a spurt of contract signings. The list is now shorter, for example, by a six-bedroom duplex penthouse at 279 Central Park West that went...

Friends,Please click here to see the article in yesterday's New York Times about Vandenberg's sale of 357 West 121st Street. At $2,575,000, it was a bit higher than other nearby sales in the last few years. However it is about half the price of our average townhouse saleprice on the...

"An Academic Perk "By JOSH BARBANELPublished: March 20, 2009 , New York TimesMANY buyers say that jumbo mortgages are hard to come by these days. But don’t tell that to Edward R. Morrison, a law professor and economist at Columbia University, who is something of an expert on these troubled...

Many buyers are saying:a) I'm waiting for the prices to go lower andb) I'd only buy at 20-25% below the asking price.In response, here are the reasons to buy now.1. As all the weathered veterans know, it's impossible to catch the bottom of the curve and the only time to...

"The Couple Who Saved Park Slope "By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLISPublished: Sunday, April 25, 2004, New York TimesCorrection AppendedEVELYN AND EVERETT ORTNER are the original gentrifiers, a word whose pejorative connotations seem unfair when applied to people who have dedicated the last 40 years to the welfare of Park Slope the way...