Real LItag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//1362008-10-07T21:36:33ZBuying and Selling Real Estate in the Communities of Long IslandMovable Type 3.36Is Great Neck's Nikki Blonsky flying the coup?tag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1333922008-10-07T21:01:58Z2008-10-07T21:36:33Z LA has nothing on LI — at least according to big, bodacious actress Nikki Blonsky. The "Hairspray" movie star, who lives in Great Neck with her parents and brother in a single-family home with a two-car garage, loves the...Tania Padgett
LA has nothing on LI — at least according to big, bodacious actress Nikki Blonsky. The "Hairspray" movie star, who lives in Great Neck with her parents and brother in a single-family home with a two-car garage, loves the neighborhood, neighbors say. When her career first took off, she “was considering moving to Los Angeles,” says Cassandra Formas-Espadas, who used to live on the same street. But she said “she likes it here.” Here, is a quiet tree-lined street with homes that have roomy two or three bedrooms and are valued at about $650,000, like the Blonskys’ home.
Schools and stores are nearby and Blonsky told Newsday recently that she “loves shopping at Roosevelt Field mall,” which is about 20 minutes away.
Still, the Long Island lark might very well be leaving the neighborhood. Her family’s home was recently seen on the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island for $649,000. ]]>
Ali Lohan is staying put on Long Islandtag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1332512008-10-07T16:44:44Z2008-10-07T17:01:25Z Despite what the National Enquirer might say, Ali Lohan is staying put in North Merrick. The Enquirer recently claimed that Ali’s big sister, Lindsay Lohan, has been lobbying for the 14-year-old to move in with her and girlfriend Samantha...Laura Mann
Despite what the National Enquirer might say, Ali Lohan is staying put in North Merrick.
The Enquirer recently claimed that Ali’s big sister, Lindsay Lohan, has been lobbying for the 14-year-old to move in with her and girlfriend Samantha Ronson. Lindsay Lohan is said to have her eye on an apartment in The Dakota building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where Beatle John Lennon lived with wife, Yoko Ono.
Ali’s reps now tell In Touch magazine that the aspiring singer is definitely not moving anywhere. “Ali is in school in Long Island,” and that’s the way it’s going to stay for now, apparently.
For more on the Lohan home, click here.
Newsday photo / Michael E. Ach]]>
How Jennifer Lopez looks at home on Long Islandtag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1332252008-10-07T15:39:00Z2008-10-07T15:41:01Z Jennifer Lopez didn't like the interview she gave to a fashion magazine, so Tina Brown decided to run it on her Daily Beast site. In it, Lopez says she once had a nervous breakdown, might send Max and Emme...Valerie Kellogg
Jennifer Lopez didn't like the interview she gave to a fashion magazine, so Tina Brown decided to run it on her Daily Beast site. In it, Lopez says she once had a nervous breakdown, might send Max and Emme to Scientology school and doesn't want to get into her reasons for not breastfeeding.
But the really juicy stuff is about her Brookville estate and what goes inside there.
" 'Don't blow the horn,' I tell my driver as we approach the gates. 'I'm sure we're being watched. A guard will appear,' " writes Kevin Sessums. "Sure enough, the ornate iron gates swing open and a large Latin guard speeds toward us on a Segway Human Transporter, his ear glued to a walkie-talkie."
Sessums continues, "I'm here to see Miss Lopez," I inform him as glares at me through the window. We are led through a canopy of beech trees and oaks on the immaculately manicured grounds of the Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez estate on the North Shore of Long Island."
The driver parks "behind a $300,000 Audie Spyker sports car" from which Anthony "emerges from the driver's side and stares back at me. In a T-shirt and a pair of clam diggers that reveal a tattoo on his right calf, he strides into the house through a side door without a word."
Sessums meets Lopez "in a dimly lit pine study filled with gold records and Grammy awards." She feels sick, her "unwashed hair is pulled severely back and there's a halo of frizz around the crown of her head. She wears no make-up, her eyes are glassy, and her feverish cheeks are aglow."
At one point, Max begins to cry. Lopez runs up and grabs both twins and sits with them through the interview.
"Emme's ears are already pierced with tiny gold hoops in them. Max is wearing a black onesie with an array of sequins on its back."
Read the full interview here, and what New Yorker magazine had to say about it here.
And click here to read more about the house -- and see photos.
AP photo]]>
Retake: Calverton house has case of bathroom blurstag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1321442008-10-07T10:05:00Z2008-10-07T10:15:00ZRetake this photo, please This house in Calverton is for sale....Valerie Kellogg
Retake this photo, please
This house in Calverton is for sale.
]]>
Blog: Hilary Duff's Islander boyfriend buys in Garden Citytag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1330652008-10-07T01:18:00Z2008-10-07T13:51:33Z Will Hilary Duff be spending more time on Long Island? Possibly, if rumors are correct that Duff’s longtime boyfriend, New York Islanders center Mike Comrie has purchased a condo in Garden City. The gossip blog I’m Not Obsessed reports...Laura Mann
Will Hilary Duff be spending more time on Long Island?
Possibly, if rumors are correct that Duff’s longtime boyfriend, New York Islanders center Mike Comrie has purchased a condo in Garden City.
The gossip blog I’m Not Obsessed reports that the hockey player has purchased a new pad “steps away” from Walk Street Café, the Seventh Street restaurant where the pair have recently been seen dining.
Duff and Comrie’s yearlong romance has made headlines recently. In August, engagement rumors swirled when Duff was seen sporting a ring on THAT finger. Sources quickly denied that the pair are planning marriage. ]]>
Stained-glass workshop starts tomorrowtag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1321222008-10-06T14:01:00Z2008-10-07T14:43:08ZLearn how to create an individual square-foot stained-glass panel at the Southampton Historical Museums and Research Center's adult workshop "Introduction to Stained Glass," taught by stained-glass artist Hallie Monroe, from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow and every Tuesday through Dec....Valerie Kellogg
here.
-- M. BOZENA SYSKA]]>
LI seminar: Learn to be a seller in a buyer's markettag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1321202008-10-06T13:01:00Z2008-10-06T13:02:59ZHome buyers and sellers can learn to ready their home for sale in a buyer's market at the "How To Be A Seller In A Buyer's Market" seminar taught by Lita Smith-Mines, real estate attorney, lecturer and author, through the...Valerie Kellogg
here.
- M. BOZENA SYSKA
]]>
Retake: Try to stumble down this Babylon hallwaytag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1299182008-10-06T12:00:00Z2008-10-06T12:01:01ZRetake this photo, please This house in Babylon is for sale. No, someone did not slip something in your drink....Valerie Kellogg
Retake this photo, please
This house in Babylon is for sale.
No, someone did not slip something in your drink.
]]>
Retake: Mastic Beach deck is 'wired'tag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1299162008-10-05T10:09:00Z2008-10-05T10:23:33ZRetake this photo, please This house in Mastic Beach is for sale. Don't trip!...Valerie Kellogg
Retake this photo, please
This house in Mastic Beach is for sale.
Don't trip!
]]>
Retake: Weird colors wash Wyandanch housetag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1299132008-10-04T10:09:00Z2008-10-04T10:20:17ZRetake this photo, please This house in Wyandanch is for sale. What color is this house exactly?...Valerie Kellogg
Retake this photo, please
This house in Wyandanch is for sale.
What color is this house exactly?]]>
Jerry Seinfeld's East Hampton garage has 22 spacestag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1325772008-10-03T21:54:36Z2008-10-03T22:07:26Z In Touch magazine recently named Jerry Seinfeld as the celebrity who owns the "priciest collectibles." "The comedian once spent $1.4 million just to build a garage to house his enormous car collection, which includes 46 Porsches," the magazine wrote....Valerie KelloggIn Touch magazine recently named Jerry Seinfeld as the celebrity who owns the "priciest collectibles." "The comedian once spent $1.4 million just to build a garage to house his enormous car collection, which includes 46 Porsches," the magazine wrote. "His prized possession is a $700,000 Porsche 959, one of only 337 built." Seinfeld houses his autos in Santa Monica, Calif., the Upper West Side and in East Hampton, where he has a 22-space garage at his home.
Getty Images photo]]>
Where Long Island's hottest downtowns aretag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1325672008-10-03T21:19:04Z2008-10-03T21:35:56Z Where are Long Island's hottest downtowns? Huntington, Great Neck, Long Beach, East Hampton, Rockville Centre and Babylon, according to a report in today's Newsday. Read why real estate agents say each of these communities is worth buying into by...Valerie Kellogg
Where are Long Island's hottest downtowns? Huntington, Great Neck, Long Beach, East Hampton, Rockville Centre and Babylon, according to a report in today's Newsday. Read why real estate agents say each of these communities is worth buying into by clicking here.
Newsday photo / Bil Davis ]]>
Queens rules – in foreclosurestag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1325602008-10-03T21:12:00Z2008-10-03T21:13:23ZQueens is the epicenter of the foreclosure temblor rattling New York City. According to a current report on PropertyShark.com, the 254 imploding mortgages in Queens pushed the overall city total in August to 383, the highest since the online real...Liisa May
current report on PropertyShark.com, the 254 imploding mortgages in Queens pushed the overall city total in August to 383, the highest since the online real estate site started keeping records in 2005.
More disturbing is the added report that 73 percent of Queen’s foreclosure auctions between July 2007 and this past July were unsuccessful, and the properties went back to the lender.
Out of the 73 percent, about three-quarters are still in the lender’s possession, the report says.
To put the numbers in perspective, the report specifies that its definition of foreclosure is “a property scheduled for auction for the first time during the period.”
That means just the new foreclosures, forgetaboud the houses that have been in foreclosure longer, these numbers are just the most recent layer.
Compared to Queens the other four boroughs are in pretty good shape. For now.]]>
LI groups get $1.6 million to prevent foreclosurestag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1304412008-10-03T19:57:00Z2008-10-03T19:58:11ZThe state is giving almost $1.6 million in grants to Long Island area nonprofits for homeownership education and foreclosure prevention services. The Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee got $705,000 to expand financial counseling and education and will partner with other...Ellen Yan
The state is giving almost $1.6 million in grants to Long Island area nonprofits for homeownership education and foreclosure prevention services.
The Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee got $705,000 to expand financial counseling and education and will partner with other nonprofits, including the Long Island Housing Partnership, Community Development Corp. of Long Island, Nassau County Housing and Homeless Services, and Long Island Housing Services.
With its own grant of $516,000, the Community Development Corp. of Long Island will work with the Central Islip Civic Council and Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee to expand foreclosure prevention programs.
Covering both Long Island and New York City, the New York ACORN Housing Company will receive $365,000 to boost its foreclosure prevention services.
This money is the latest in millions of dollars the state has given to nonprofits to combat the subprime crisis, which has been leaving many homeowners unable to pay for homes they could not afford in the first place, either because they did not do their mortgage homework or were victims of fraud. The state, which has allocated $9 million to nonprofits this summer, had set up $25 million Subprime Foreclosure Prevention Program.
Some of the money comes from settlements with the state Banking Department over enforcement of laws, and other dollars come from the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal.
Find out who has largest Long Island pumpkintag:weblogs.newsday.com,2008:/realestate/blog//136.1321132008-10-03T16:54:00Z2008-10-03T17:05:07ZFind out who has grown the largest Long Island pumpkin at Hicks Nurseries' sixth annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at noon Sunday at Hicks Nurseries, 100 Jericho Tpke. in Westbury. For more information, call 516-334-0066 or click here. - M. BOZENA...Valerie Kellogg
here.
- M. BOZENA SYSKA]]>
]]>
What color is this house exactly?]]>