Jonathan Miller

Wanna Unload Your Property? Sell It Yourself

The NY Times tracked down New York-area homeowners doing some creative problem solving in this bearish market: they're nixing the six percent brokers' fee by selling their properties themselves... or trying to. Unusual methods...

The Local: FiDi--Now, More Than Ever, Almost 24-7

When Jongmin Park and his wife Soye moved from Battery Park City to a condo at 90 William Street three years ago, the conversion of the Financial District into a 24-hour retail and residential neighborhood was just beginning....

Crisis worries Wall Street residents

NEW YORK — The former JP Morgan & Co. headquarters is one of Wall Street's most famous landmarks, sitting across from the New York Stock Exchange since 1914. Today, the building is part of a luxury condominium complex that has...

Witness: Teen Paddle Boat Victims Missed Prior Trip

Nov. 14: Rescue teams search for three students who drowned in the Fox River in McHenry County, Ill. Nov. 14: Rescue teams search for three students who drowned in the Fox River in McHenry County, Ill. ALGONQUIN, Ill. — A...

Richard Ingrams’s Week: The public has little faith in this 'war on terror'

Put on the spot over the affair of Baby P, the head of children's services at Haringey, Sharon Shoesmith, said her services had "worked effectively". It reminded me of Commander Cressida Dick apropos the de Menezes shooting who...

Shine might be wearing off Manhattan real estate market

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The shine might be wearing off the Big Apple's residential real estate market. With Wall Street bonuses expected to decline significantly this year and the credit crisis only getting worse, Manhattan -...

Frost runs hot after Nixon thaw point

David Frost has not lost his thirst for performance, writes Stephanie Bunbury. That is one explanation, at least, for his apparently ill-judged decision to do a single series of personal interviews, spaced over 12 days but...

'Overbuilding Hangover' in Store for Atlanta

According to the Urban Land Institute, there is no need for Atlanta to continue building; currently, there is more than four times more construction going on than there is office spaced being used. read more

Residential area near Wall St. affected by crisis

The former JP Morgan & Co. headquarters is one of Wall Street's most famous landmarks, sitting across from the New York Stock Exchange since 1914. Today, the building is part of a luxury condominium complex that has a pool,...

Discussion opens Festival of Faiths

The darkest chapters in modern history -- from the Holocaust to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda -- have led to calls for reconciliation. So have wrenching personal moments, such as when friendships or marriages are torn apart by...

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