He is negotiating with Place Vendome Realty, the project managers and exclusive brokers, for a transfer of the air rights to his inn, and he hopes he can use the talks to minimize any threats to it.
"They keep putting tar into the sinkholes, and the sinkholes keep swallowing the tar," said Gerard Martin, a property manager at Cooper Square Realty, the building's management company.
"It is like two apartments in one," said Charlie Lewis of Warburg Realty, the building's sales manager.
"It is a new concept in realty services," said Barbara Franco, marketing manager for Coldwell Banker Sammis in Huntington.
Her mother is a property manager at River Street Realty in Boston, a family-owned business specializing in rentals.
Archstone Communities Trust said yesterday that it had agreed to buy another property manager, Charles E. Smith Residential Realty Inc., for $2.2 billion in stock and $1.4 billion in assumed debt.
CarrAmerica Realty Corp., a developer and manager of office properties in 13 United States markets, bought the Commercial National Bank Building in Washington for $84 million.
[B12.] $2 Billion Real Estate Combination Archstone Communities Trust agreed to buy another property manager, Charles E. Smith Residential Realty, for $2.2 billion in stock and $1.4 billion in assumed debt.
Because they had a fourth child on the way, "I felt so bad they were even considering a two-bedroom two-bath," said Charlie Lewis of Warburg Realty, the building's sales manager.
"My average customers are in their 30's with family incomes of $80,000 to $100,000," said Mark G. Anderson, the manager of Halmike Realty on Linden Boulevard, who has been selling houses in the area for 19 years.
Mary Signorella, a general manager at Cooper Square Realty who oversees the Southgate cooperative where Ms. Catus has been working, pointed out that building security generally has more to do with keeping a pair of eyes on the door than with hand-to-hand combat.
