By Liana Grey
Last week, Nick Stolatis, a sustainability director at TIAA-CREF and a past president of New York’s IREM chapter, flew to Toronto to attend the US Green Building Council’s annual trade show. He was there to speak about benchmarking, a practice he’d advocated long before Mayor Michael Bloomberg required landlords to track energy usage. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,” Stolatis said.

By Liana Grey
For brokers that handle swanky new condos or TriBeCa lofts, the sale that landed Norman Horowitz REBNY’s Deal of the Year Award might seem the stuff of paperback thrillers. The seller of a townhouse in the West 150s, eyed by a local businessman looking for live-work space, was neither trusting nor entirely trustworthy. “There was a lot of cloak and dagger stuff going on between buyer and seller,” Horowitz said.