Karen Heyman and Alan Heyman

Sotheby’s $12.5 million 70 Willow Street

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Kyle Blackmon Brown Harris Stevens $88 million 15 Central Park West #Ph20

Lisa Fitzig, Thomas Wexler

Corcoran Group $11 million 59 East 77th Street

Martine Capdevielle

Sotheby’s $13.25 million 18 East 69th Street

Karesse Grenier Brown Harris Stevens $13.07 million 101 Central Park West #9E

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2) Power behind the throne: The lieutenants pulling the strings for NYC’s top real estate chiefs

3) Ace Hotel owner, others buy Temple Court building in FiDi

4) Are renters ditching brokers?

5) Move over, PropertyShark. Actovia’s in town

6) Prostitution at the Sheffield?

7) Survival of the fittest: Brokers beat out agents in an evolving market

8) In traditionally weak month, Manhattan rents continue to approach record highs

9) Extell faces foreclosure at Antiques Garage site

10) Lazenby’s 007 moment: Bond’s daughter comes out guns blazing

Shvo’s house-sitter sentenced to three years in prison for theft:

“She tried to make a Shmo out of Shvo,But to jail she will go,It just goes to show,

There is no easy come, easy go.”

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Extell faces foreclosure at Antiques Garage siteBy Katherine ClarKe

Extell Development is facing foreclosure on the site of the longstanding Antiques Garage flea market. Extell purchased the property, at 112 West 25th Street, for $42.7 million in 2006 and filed plans to build a 233,544-square-foot, 29-story hotel there. But Extell has an outstanding loan of close to $39 million on the property, according to a lis pendens filed last month by mortgage holder Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo is now filing for permission from the Supreme Court to take control of the property and put

it on the market. The flea market has been operating out of the parking garage at 112 West 25th Street since 1993. It has so far been allowed to continue its business de-spite the new ownership, but founder Alan Boss said if Wells Fargo sells the property, the market will likely cease operating in that location.

Prostitution at the Sheffield?By leigh Kamping-Carder

The Sheffield condominium board has gone to court to force the eviction of an alleged male escort who serviced clients from his rental unit at the luxury Midtown West condo tower. Stephan Greving, who pleaded guilty to one prostitution-related count in October,

was renting the apartment from an Italian couple. Despite the ar-rest, however, Greving has allegedly continued to bring clients to the Sheffield. The unit owners — Bruno Cova, cochair of the Milan office of law firm Paul Hastings, and his wife, Bettina Beck — have not moved to evict him, according to the suit, filed last month in New York Supreme Court. In response to a complaint from the condo board, the New York Police Department conducted a sting operation on Greving in October, the suit says. An undercover po-lice officer posed as a prospective client and arranged for Greving to perform oral sex in exchange for money.

New database reveals admitted license violations By adam pinCus

For years, when real estate brokers admitted to violating state licensing law, so-called consent orders were quietly negotiated between firms and the Department of State. Last month, for the first time, the department began publishing the negotiated settlements online, revealing violations by the heads of Citi Habitats and aptsandlofts.com, top ex-ecutives at Prudential Douglas Elliman and associate brokers at the Corcoran Group. Citi Habitats President Gary Malin was fined $500 after admitting to improperly supervising

a salesperson who advertised improperly in a newspaper. David Maundrell, president of aptsandlofts.com, was fined $1,500 for paying a commission to an unlicensed agent. Elliman executives Steven James and Kenneth Haber in 2009 were cited for permitting “unlicensed services and split commissions with an unlicensed individual,” and were fined a combined $3,000. Agent Wilber Gonzalez was fined $2,000 after he was charged and pleaded guilty in 2010 to misdemeanor tax evasion.

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