Selected items will be exhibited April 8-16 at Douglas Elliman's Madison Avenue art gallery.
"The entry-level market is back, " said Dottie Herman, president of Prudential Douglas Elliman.
Yuval Greenblatt , executive vice president at Prudential Douglas Elliman in Manhattan, says there is a siege on the local rental market.
Mr. Tahari and his broker, Rick Kelly of Prudential Douglas Elliman, had originally negotiated a lease to move in on July 1.
Demand for these pricey abodes has ramped up, and inventory has tightened, according to a recent report by Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
Karen Advocate-Connolly with Prudential Douglas Elliman has sold several apartments near the construction zone and said many listings there sell below the asking price.
Forbes recently took a tour of the three bedroom, two bathroom triplex with co-listing agent Robert Morrison of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
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After Mr. Shvo left Douglas Elliman, Howard Lorber, the company chairman, told New York Magazine that Mr. Shvo had left behind 2, 500 happy people at the brokerage.
Dolly Lenz, a top broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman, said that many buyers looking at Manhattan real estate see it as a safe haven for their money.
Miller, who tracks listings and sales in quarterly Douglas Elliman reports, estimates that in international hubs like Miami, FL, 70% of all second quarter home sales were cash.
Mr. Shvo, who was born in Israel, worked his way up to be a top-selling broker at what is now Douglas Elliman before founding his own brokerage, SHVO, in 2004.
Dolly Lenz, a top broker at Douglas Elliman, said that at the luxury end of the market, prices were simultaneously "cheap" and "absolutely undoubtedly at a peak, " whatever the market reports say.
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Dolly Lenz, a broker with Prudential Douglas Elliman in New York says that European buying activity declined in recent weeks as the pound and euro are now at two-year lows against the dollar.
Mr. Miller prepared the report for Douglas Elliman.
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Last month, Douglas Elliman reported median sale prices were up 3.2% on Long Island, excluding the Hamptons, in the fourth quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier, but prices were down from the third quarter.
"The global market has forced a lot of people to travel extensively around the world, and by doing so, they are being exposed to really some exquisite hotel living, " said Leonard Steinberg, a sales broker with Douglas Elliman.
Mark Menendez, director of rentals at Prudential Douglas Elliman, said that even though the market was "pretty tight, " it was still a "value-based market, " in contrast to the frenzied bidding by renters in 2008 during the real-estate boom.
Jonathan Miller, an appraiser who prepares market reports for Prudential Douglas Elliman, said there appeared to be a similar pattern of strong lower-priced sales on Long Island, but he said he has not finalized a report on the island for the fourth quarter.
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