Some, like Mr. Griffin's pad, are luxurious pieds-à-terre for out-of-towners.
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Pieds-à-terre are part-time second homes occupied for less than half the year.
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New York City has about 25,2238 pieds-à-terre, according to a city estimate in 29.4.
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The abandoned piles of brick on the Lower East Side have morphed into charming pieds-à-terre.
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Legislators initially wanted to tax owners of pieds-à-terre, luxury homes that are not primary residences.
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The penthouse was formerly two pieds-à-terre, built circa 1930, and merged, rather cursorily, by a previous tenant.
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Some Russians who like to attend fashion and design events have purchased pieds-à-terre to use on their visits.
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These kinds of rentals are often used as pieds-à-terre, giving some buildings a transient quality, brokers and residents say.
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Many investors bought units in the building years ago and now rent them out, while others use them as pieds-à-terre.
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The share of vacant apartments that are classified as pieds-à-terre has held steady during that time at about 30 percent.
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Interest was mostly coming from overseas buyers, young heirs to foreign fortunes and older executives looking for city pieds-à-terre, they said.
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In 2017, New York City had 75,000 pieds-à-terre, up from 55,000 such units since 2014, according to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.
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Many have been converted into cafes, shops, guesthouses and, occasionally, pieds-à-terre for residents seeking the sort of authenticity that only a very old home can provide.
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In spite of the increase, the share of pieds-à-terre that comprise vacant units unavailable for sale or rent remained at about 30 percent in both years.
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Without a local boulangerie, boucherie or pharmacie, it is not a place where most Parisians could imagine living, but it has become a magnet for international pieds-à-terre.
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There were 75,000 pieds-à-terre in New York City in 2017, up from 0003,000 such units in 2014, according to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.
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Mr Griffin, who has homes in Chicago, Florida and London, reportedly will not make this his primary residence, thus reigniting an old proposal to tax New York City's many pieds-à-terre.
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It's easy for shareholders to come together because they can have group texts to decide whether they should allow pieds-à-terre and to figure out whose turn it is to clear the stoop.
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Mr. Neiditch said he is not just selling an apartment; he is selling an immersive experience, even if many luxury apartments are pieds-à-terre that go empty while their owners are gallivanting where the ultrawealthy gallivant.
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Liberal supporters of the tax had long pointed to a range of problems associated with pieds-à-terre, including encouraging real-estate speculation, inflating property values and associated taxes and speeding up gentrification in once-affordable neighborhoods.
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Buyers can select from a variety of property types, from "very modest pieds-à-terre," to new, high-end apartments downtown, "all the way up to palaces," said Grant Rawlings, the owner of Chic Marrakech, a brokerage specializing in riad renovations.
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Come for the Clomid, stay for Per Se. Some of Dr. Zhang's patients, envisioning further babies and more in vitro fertilization procedures and births in New York, wind up buying pieds-à-terre on West 57th Street, he told me.
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If the owner's primary residence is nearby, the term also implies that the residence allows the owner to use their primary residence as a vacation home. Pieds-à- terre attracted discussion during the 2010s in Paris and New York, where they are argued to cause a reduction in the overall housing supply. A tax on such units has been discussed since 2014. A 2019 bill in the New York State Assembly that would place a recurring tax on luxury pieds-à-terre was blocked after intense pressure from real estate developers and their hired lobbyists.
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The compact pieds-à-terre included a wall of appliances and cabinets built into one side, including a kitchen stove, a refrigerator, a television set, and a reel-to-reel tape deck. A bathroom unit, about the size of an aircraft lavatory, was set into an opposite corner. A large circular window over the bed dominated the far end of the room. Optional extras such as a stereo were also originally available.
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The icon of Metabolism, Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was erected in the Ginza district of Tokyo in 1972 and completed in just 30 days.Koolhaas & Obrist (2011), p. 388 Prefabricated in Shiga Prefecture in a factory that normally built shipping containers, it is constructed of 140 capsules plugged into two cores that are 11 and 13 stories in height. The capsules contained the latest gadgets of the day and were built to house small offices and pieds-à-terre for Tokyo salarymen.Watanabe (2001), p.
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In June 2004, John Lewis announced plans to open its first store in Northern Ireland at the Sprucefield Park development, the province's largest out of town shopping centre, located outside Lisburn and from Belfast. The application was approved in June 2005 and the opening of the new store was scheduled for 2008. This decision was disputed and was taken to the High Court, where it was reversed. In 2008, a controversy over the declaration of expenses by UK members of parliament revealed that Parliamentary authorities were using information from John Lewisthe "John Lewis list"as a guide to the maximum costs refundable to MPs when equipping London pieds à terre at public expense.
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