Super broker Dolly Lenz takes her west coast partner, Aaron Kirman, through one of the most exclusive and expensive apartments available in NYC and CNBC were the only cameras allowed inside this mega-home.
15 Central Park West is one of the most exclusive buildings in Manhattan. It's been home to stars like Denzel Washington, A-Rod and Sting. In this new episode, Dolly takes a former NHL star to tour a $35,000,000 apartment in the iconic building.
Third time lucky for some, could it be a case of seventh time lucky for Singapore,which has just unveiled its latest and most stringent measures to cool a sizzling property market, which has so far defied a slew of steps unveiled since 2009.
Singapore on Friday increased a tax on foreign buyers as part of new measures to cool its housing market which has seen continued strong demand in the face of a weak economy and previous efforts to curb prices.
As federal regulators and banks argue over new lending standards, one important fact about the housing market goes largely overlooked: More than 20 million American homeowners own their homes outright.
CNBC's Diana Olick reports a U.S. consumer watchdog group has made mortgage policy changes on banks in an effort to protect borrowers from the ills of the past decade.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exacerbated the mortgage crisis and that's why the government should get out of the home loan business, former Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich told CNBC.