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Judge recuses himself from Realogy-Compass suit over property dispute

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 02:00 PM PDT

A New York Supreme Court judge is backing away from a nearly three-year-old legal battle between Realogy and Compass over an apparent conflict of interest. Justice Barry Ostrager, who until this week had been presiding over an agent-poaching lawsuit brought by Realogy against Compass in 2019, filed for a recusal on Tuesday. “I have a dispute with Compass, Inc. in connection with a real estate transaction and therefore must recuse myself,” Ostrager wrote. The exact

Toll Brothers chief asks $22M for NYC penthouse

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 01:30 PM PDT

The bell has tolled for the Toll Brothers co-founder Robert Toll at his Upper East Side penthouse, where he’s asking a hefty sum for impressive city views. Toll has listed the unit at 30 East 85th Street for more than $22 million, Bloomberg reported. Toll and his wife have lived in the building for more than three decades and moved into the penthouse around the turn of the century. They moved downtown seven years ago,