Real Estate

Family Prevails At Fixer-Upper's Foreclosure

by | Jul 10, 2023 11:16 am | Comments (11)

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Daniel Marca (right) and fam: "We really just wanted a home in which our family can grow up and live for a long time.”

Looking forward to new memories to be made as new homeowners in the Hill, Daniel Marca and María González and their two young children explored the perimeter of an empty and partially boarded up house on Tyler Street that they won after ending on top of a crowded tax foreclosure auction.

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Annex Port Storage Spots Sold For $17M+

by | May 31, 2023 8:59 am | Comments (4)

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Ship ahoy in the Annex. More to come, with a to-be-deepened port?

A Massachusetts-based company has purchased a handful of waterfront storage properties in the Annex for over $17 million — in anticipation of a federally subsidized harbor-deepening project that promises to boost business in New Haven’s already bustling industrial port.

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YNHH Buys Lab Building For $101M

by | May 26, 2023 12:56 pm | Comments (25)

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55 Park St.: Long leased, now owned, by YNHH.

Yale New Haven Hospital spent more than $101 million buying a Rubik’s Cube-patterned medical-district building that it has used for more than a decade for clinical laboratories, a pharmacy, a lecture auditorium, and patient and visitor access to the nearby Smilow Cancer Hospital and Air Rights Garage.

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Lab Builder Buys "10th Sq." Corner For $10M+

by | Mar 14, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (16)

Rendering of a new lab-and-office building ...

... to be built by Ancora at SW corner of ex-Coliseum site.

A North Carolina-based real estate developer has purchased the southwest corner of the ex-Coliseum site for over $10.6 million — furthering an already-city-approved plan to build up that part of the property into a new 11-story lab and office building.

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Hill Properties Sold For 194-Apt Plan

by | Feb 23, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (31)

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Congress/Davenport apartment plan, slated to replace to-be-demolished properties like 326 and 348 Davenport (below).

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A California-based developer has purchased nine Hill properties for a combined $4.35 million — advancing plans to construct 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues.

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Demolition-Cleanup-Redev Plans Advance

by | Jan 9, 2023 1:57 pm | Comments (3)

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The former Winchester Arms plant at Munson and Mansfield, slated for demolition.

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Science Park Development Corp's David Silverstone: "I'm afraid someone's going to get hurt."

Science Park’s redevelopers are still planning to knock down an abandoned factory building saturated in toxic oil and marked by broken glass.

They’re now one small step closer to realizing that goal, as alders advanced a grant application that would cover a portion of the $10 million they need to demolish and remediate the derelict former site.

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Whose Boom Is It? City Cut Top Investors $166M Break In 2022

by | Dec 23, 2022 1:08 pm | Comments (42)

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360 State St.: Sold for $160M, appraised at $115M.

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New Haven cut a $166 million break for out-of-town investors in the 10 biggest real estate deals of 2022 — leaving local taxpayers with the bill in a year that was supposed to start seeing the real estate boom pay local benefits.

The break came in the form of real estate tax appraisals that ended up far lower than the prices that buyers actually paid when they determined what the true values of high-end properties should be.

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NJ Investors Buy Winchester Lofts

by | Dec 2, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (20)

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275 Winchester Ave., now under new ownership.

Two New Jersey-based investors have purchased the 158-unit Winchester Lofts luxury apartment complex — capping off a two-year local real estate spending spree that has seen that same landlord duo buy a total of 632 New Haven apartments for a price tag likely well in excess of $100 million.

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145 Dwight Apts Sold For $34.6M

by | Nov 17, 2022 12:47 pm | Comments (7)

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Buyers Josef and Jacob Feldman of MOD Equities: Now the owners of 145 more Dwight neighborhood apts.

A New York-based landlord team that has long been active in New Haven’s real estate market added 145 more apartments to its local portfolio — in part by paying twice as much as the city-appraised value for a recently built Howe Street luxury apartment complex.

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Drug Rehab Nonprofit Buys CVS Site

by | Sep 14, 2022 4:09 pm | Comments (26)

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The former CVS site at 215 Whalley. Future home of MCCA outpatient clinic.

CFO Connan: Will "better serve" community.

A Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit plans to move its local outpatient clinic to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street, after purchasing that recently shuttered ex-pharmacy property for $2.5 million.

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Cine-4 Closes, Becoming Early Ed Campus

by | Aug 11, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (29)

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Farewell, flicks: Middletown Ave.'s Ciné 4, now shuttered.

Start the early ed: Friends Center's Schiavone, who plans to convert cinema into childcare campus.

The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.

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Frontier Building Sold For $73M+

by | Aug 10, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)

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The Frontier building at 310 Orange, now under new ownership.

A New Jersey-based real estate company has purchased the Frontier Communications building on Orange Street for over $73.8 million, providing a cash infusion for the Norwalk-based telecommunications company — which subsequently signed a 20-year lease with its new landlords.

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4 Quick Resales Net Flipper $364K

by | Aug 8, 2022 12:02 pm | Comments (7)

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Shneor Edelkopf flips, clockwise from top left: 106 Bassett, 47 Hillside, 232 West Hazel, 268 Exchange.

Real estate investor Shneor Edelkopf has kicked his rental-property-flipping business into high gear this summer — as his companies have bought and promptly sold four apartment buildings in five weeks, at a combined markup of $364,000.

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Jackpot: Liberty Building Sells For $29M

by | Jul 7, 2022 1:45 pm | Comments (10)

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The Liberty apartment building on Temple Street.

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Seller Gideon Friedman: Pockets $11M above city's appraisal.

The 124-unit Liberty apartment building on Temple Street has sold for $29.1 million — becoming the latest large downtown residential complex to change hands for millions of dollars above its city-appraised value.

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