South Africa's Greenpoint stadium, which has been chosen to host a 2010 World Cup semi-final, was on Monday declared complete. "This has been worth the wait. People of Cape Town this is our stadium, it is ready for the world," said mayor of Cape Town Dan Plato, during the opening ceremony. The 68,000 seater stadium boosts the views ...

Thanks to the collapse on Wall Street, the Brooklyn sales market took a dip, but not a dive, according to a third quarter market report from real estate consulting firm HMS Associates. The third quarter average sales price of $695,285 marked a 2 percent reduction from the third quarter of 2007, creating a modestly improved market for buyers that ...

In May 2005, the City Council passed a rezoning of 175 blocks of Williamsburg and Greenpoint that The New York Times rightfully called “the last major hurdle to the city’s most ambitious redevelopment effort in decades.” The city designed the rezoning to foster residential development, with incentives to encourage developers to build moderately priced housing. The land rush was ...

Director Peter Jackson is the likely buyer of a Tribeca penthouse. After 19 years on and off the market, 603 Park goes to contract. Brooke Astor's old butler is on the deed for the Wildenstein mansion sale. Why Greenpoint and Williamsburg home prices are suddenly so high. The I.R.S. may stymie Bloomberg's plans for a big ...