Halstead Property

By Joseph Plambeck AT first blush, it doesn’t make much sense: If you know you’ll need an apartment in New York in several months, why can’t you start a serious search now, rather than wait until your move-in date is just...
New York Times - Thursday, November 24, 2011

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS LESLEY REY was carrying two mortgages when her income from selling airplanes took a dive last fall. She has a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side and a house in Westchester. “You feel a little defeated by...
New York Times - Friday, August 28, 2009

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS SPRING and summer are usually busy seasons for the New York City rental market. And after an extraordinarily slow winter, deals have picked up. The true lifeblood of the rental market, however, isn’t warm weather. It’s jobs. And...
New York Times - Friday, August 07, 2009

Photo: Halstead's Fritz Frigan Although asking rents fell in residential buildings in almost every sector of the Manhattan market during the last quarter, anecdotal evidence suggests people are negotiating rents as much as 20 percent lower than the original price....
The Real Deal - Monday, February 02, 2009

Photo Caption: MOTIVATED When Sara Nuttall and her family went hunting for a rental, she said, incentives "made a big difference." (Photo Credit: Tina Fineberg for The New York Times) By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS IN this painful economic climate of layoffs and...
New York Times - Friday, January 30, 2009

Rental buildings pour on incentives like free rent By ADAM BONISLAWSKI How weak is the Manhattan rental market these days? Well, if things keep going the way they have been, you might want to slip your next rent check inside a sympathy...
New York Post - Thursday, January 08, 2009

A home office might actually be a bargain in these tougher times—but, oh, the fakery! Laura Tomasko, a 24-year-old nonprofit employee, spent her first year out of college living in a bedroom with no windows. Ms. Tomasko and her roommate...
New York Observer - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Halstead Property Francine Schwartz joined as operations director. She was previously chief operating officer at Fox Residential Group. Fritz Frigan was promoted to executive director of sales and leasing for the Midtown office from director of sales and leasing.
The Real Deal - Friday, August 01, 2008

Halstead Property, LLC has promoted Fritz Frigan Executive Director of Sales and Leasing for the Midtown office. In his new position, he will manage day-to-day operations for Halstead’s Midtown office as well as oversee Halstead’s leasing efforts and their portfolio...
Mann Report - Friday, July 11, 2008

Halstead Property, LLC has promoted Fritz Frigan to executive director of sales and leasing for the Midtown office. In his new position, he will manage day-to-day operations for Halstead’s Midtown office as well as oversee Halstead’s leasing efforts and their...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Halstead Property has announced the hiring of six new Agents to their expanding Midtown office located at 770 Lexington Avenue. Joining the firm recently were the following agents: Cynthia Besteman, Peter Cohen, Rosemarie Minniti, Christopher Todd Simmons, Tiffany Stilwell and...
The Cooperator - Thursday, May 01, 2008

How the city's largest residential brokerage firms approach training Every real estate brokerage takes a slightly different approach to training new hires. The Real Deal surveyed six of the city's largest and busiest residential firms, and found programs ranging from a...
The Real Deal - Thursday, May 01, 2008

Real Estate Halstead Property: Fritz Frigan, 46, was promoted to executive director of sales and leasing from director of sales and leasing.
Crains - Saturday, March 01, 2008

Halstead Property has announced the hiring of six new Agents to their expanding Midtown office located at 770 Lexington Avenue. Joining the firm recently were the following agents: Cynthia Besteman, Peter Cohen, Rosemarie Minniti, Christopher Todd Simmons, Tiffany Stilwell and...
Mann Report - Saturday, March 01, 2008

All talk of mortgage rates aside, New York, at its heart, remains a town of renters. Record-setting condo sales might be what set tongues a-wagging, and a $2,000-per-square-foot penthouse no doubt sounds sexier than a $2,000-a-month studio. But even after...
New York Post - Thursday, February 07, 2008

BY KATHLEEN DOLER As home values fall and sales slow, a rental revival's arising. Across the U.S., rental housing vacancies are down and rents are up. Owners who can't sell are becoming landlords, at least for now, hoping to wait...
Investors.com - Thursday, November 01, 2007

By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY WHETHER they preferred apartments uptown or downtown, walk-up or doorman buildings, and old or new construction, many New Yorkers agreed on one thing about the Manhattan real estate market in the last year: it was safer to rent...
New York Times - Sunday, February 25, 2007

Harder fall drop-off this year By Melissa Dehncke-McGill The rental market is still hot. But maybe not quite as hot as it was this summer. Brokers say the typical seasonal drop-off seen in the fall was a little bit more of a...
The Real Deal - Friday, December 15, 2006

Full-Nest Zone, Empty-Nester Magnet By CLAIRE WILSON LAJOS ELKAN, a professor of French, and his wife, Diane, who is retired from advertising, knew they would always have Paris. But when it came to choosing the location for a pied-à-terre —...
New York Times - Sunday, October 08, 2006

BY GABRIELLE BIRKNER - Staff Reporter of the Sun Realtors in Saratoga Springs don't need to know much about preparing coop board packages, and their counterparts in Manhattan need no working knowledge of the pitfalls of septic tanks. But since would-be...
New York Sun - Thursday, June 22, 2006

CECILIA BASTOS moved into her bright alcove studio in a doorman building on Park Avenue recently after a long, grueling search. It was well worth it. Not only did she find a nice place, she also managed to get a...
New York Times - Sunday, June 06, 2004

These Manhattan renters found values — often just around the corner By LISA KEYS MATT EDWARDS was a pretty lucky guy back in the winter of 2000. Having just relocated to New York from San Francisco, he scored an alcove studio...
New York Post - Friday, April 16, 2004