Sean “Diddy” Combs owes nearly $100 million in mortgage payments on a trio of mansions in Los Angeles and Miami that were raided by federal agents this week, according to a report. The embattled rapper took out eight bank loans, totaling a whopping $140 million, to pay for the sprawling properties, the Daily Mail reported.
Month: March 2024
Glades County is one of Florida’s sparsest locales, a rural expanse with 12,000 residents, two firefighters and no major grocery store. It’s there that Jeff Akerman is springing to life a religious Jewish community of 1,300 homes — the next Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but on Lake Okeechobee. The novel project — planned with two synagogues and
Four major retail landlords are suing the city to lower their property taxes, which they say are unfairly based on their pre-pandemic rents. According to the suit first reported by the Real Deal, owners of prime retail condos on Fifth Avenue and East 59th Street claim their property taxes are “grossly overassessed” because they’re based
Wall Street South execs are moving north — but only a few miles. And they’re not alone, as many house hunters on this end of Florida look to the under-the-radar Palm Beach Gardens — just 12 miles north of Palm Beach, which offers more space and less of a hustle. As The Post reported in
Ascentxmedia | E+ | Getty Images Rent prices for one- and two-bedroom apartments grew in March for the first time in six months. The monthly cost for a one-bedroom apartment across the U.S. bumped up to $1,487, a 0.3% increase from February. The price of a typical two-bedroom apartment also jumped 0.5% to $1,847,
DJ Khaled’s former South Florida mansion is hitting the market for $16.39 million — and much of his furnishings, including three 14-karat gold chandeliers with Swarovski crystals and his sneaker shrine, are part of the deal. The Aventura home, at 3914 Island Estates, includes the music producer’s famed 500-plus sneaker collection room, with its “WETHEBEST”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the hallway outside a courtroom where he attended a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in New York City, U.S., March 25, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters A court ruling that slashed Donald Trump‘s civil fraud appeal bond
Batbold Sukhbaatar of Mongolia addresses the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 22, 2010. Emmanuel Dunand | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors on Tuesday sued to seize two New York City apartments worth $14 million that were allegedly bought with proceeds from a corrupt scheme involving Mongolia’s
A ‘For Sale’ sign is posted on the lawn in front of a home on March 15, 2024, in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The usually busy spring housing market is underway, but mortgage demand isn’t moving. Application volume was essentially flat last week, dropping 0.7% compared with the previous week, according to
An affordable shelter in the land of pastel polos and big bleach-blonde blow outs? Go fish. But for home hunters dead set on targeting pecunious Palm Beach, there is some relief in sight. “We’ve had this frenzy of prices more than doubling over the last four years,” said Jonathan Miller, CEO of appraisal firm Miller
An example of Pacaso’s new lower-priced vacation home listings. CNBC Luxury vacation home co-ownership platform Pacaso is attempting to appeal to the masses, as it grows its business during a pricey and competitive phase of the housing market. The company, which launched in 2020 with multimillion-dollar homes listed for co-ownership, is now introducing thousands more
Adam Neumann of WeWork and Victor Fung Kwok-king, right, chairman of Fung Group, attend a signing ceremony at WeWork’s Weihai Road location on April 12, 2018 in Shanghai, China. Jackal Pan | Visual China Group | Getty Images Adam Neumann has submitted an unsolicited bid in excess of $500 million to acquire WeWork out of
Face it, leasing activity is less than overwhelming these days. So the heavy-hitters at CBRE took advantage of the lull to give the 8.2 million New Yorkers what everyone was clamoring for: Yes! More of CBRE’s “Real Estate Capital of the World” banners. And with a fresh new look! Some 150 green and white banners now hang along and
In this article RDFN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The rate at which home prices grow is slowing down. U.S. home prices increased 0.6% from a month before in February, in line with the 0.6% average monthly gain in the roughly eight years leading up to
Kristalina Georgieva, Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks during the China Development Forum 2024 at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 24, 2024 in Beijing, China. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images China has two choices right now: return to its old economic policies, or choose reforms to spur
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after voting at a polling station setup in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on March 19, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Donald Trump faces the severe risk that New York‘s attorney general will begin trying to collect a $454
The fun-factor train keeps on chugging along at the city’s premier office buildings as landlords struggle to arrest an alarming increase in vacancies, which now top 20% overall. The Post reported last week that landlords have introduced unprecedented numbers and varieties of amenities that are exclusively for tenants’ use — a strong inducement both for luring
New York City is drowning in unpaid water bills — and Manhattan’s boutique Hotel Hayden leads the pack. Since the pandemic, the number of accounts that have failed to pay their water bills has increased significantly, and now the city is clamping down. In a news conference this week, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection,
Artificial intelligence is moving into the housing space, specifically architecture. ICON, which developed one of the first fully 3D-printed housing developments in the U.S., is taking automation another step further. It recently unveiled what it calls Vitruvius, an AI program that helps consumers design custom homes online and get the plans, making the process cheaper
The notorious Boulder, Colorado residence where 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in 1996 has once again failed to find a buyer after being listed for sale for over a year, The Post has learned. The property, located at 749 15th St., listed on March 1, 2023 with a hefty price tag of
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives at a Manhattan courthouse trial in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James against him, his adult sons, the Trump Organization and others in New York City, U.S., October 4, 2023. Mike Segar | Reuters If Donald Trump were
Belmont, North Carolina, Myers Park, large brick mansion with for sale sign in front yard. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Sales of existing homes surged 9.5% in February from January to 4.38 million units, on a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing analysts had been
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 25, 2023. Jeenah Moon | Reuters A New York judge ordered Donald Trump‘s company Thursday to tell a court-appointed financial watchdog about any future efforts to obtain bonds
Sales of previously occupied US homes rose in February from the previous month to the strongest pace in a year with homebuyers encouraged by a modest pullback in mortgage rates and more properties on the market. Existing home sales climbed 9.5% last month from January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.38 million, the
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it will leave interest rates unchanged, delaying the possibility of rate cuts as well as any relief from sky-high borrowing costs. Overall, expectations that the Fed is pulling off a soft landing have increased, but that offers little consolation for Americans with high-interest debt. And now there may be fewer interest rate
A landmark class-action lawsuit may change the way Americans buy and sell homes. The National Association of Realtors agreed to a $418 million settlement last week in an antitrust lawsuit where a federal jury found the organization and several large real-estate brokerages had conspired to artificially inflate agent commissions on the sale and purchase of
Hinterhaus Productions | Digitalvision | Getty Images Inflation in the U.S. has hit a speed bump. While the rate of price increases has come down significantly from its peak in the summer of 2022, the most recent reading from the consumer price index showed overall inflation stuck at just above 3%. Core inflation — which
An Upper East Side home formerly owned by award-winning “Mad Men” actor Bryan Batt has listed for $599,000. The current seller, jewelry company exec Jennifer Senenko, bought the one-bedroom unit from Batt himself in 2010 — five years before the end of the still-popular AMC series — for $450,000. The residence, at 308 E. 79th
Townhomes are under construction on July 19, 2023 in Mundelein, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Mortgage interest rates rose last week for the first time in three weeks. As a result, total mortgage application volume dropped 1.6% compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. The average contract
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News town hall at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on Feb. 20, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Donald Trump and his co-defendants were in talks with insurance giant Chubb for a $464 million appeal bond in the former