Lucy Cohen Blatter

Westchester's Bronxville is one of those picture-perfect suburban areas that looks like it was pulled straight out of a magazine, with large houses and perfectly manicured lawns. And it appears as though this $1.995 million four-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath brick colonial house fits that description to a T.

To the naked eye, this $1.695 million two-bedroom, two-bathroom at 107th Street and Central Park West seems like a classic prewar co-op, but it's actually a condo. What that means for you: You can put down just 10 percent (instead of the usual co-op requisite of 20 percent) and don't have to go through a  board interview. Win!

Our annual  holiday tipping guide is out and updated for 2015, but we've also got tons of other tipping-related advice for you here on Brick. Here's what you may have missed, but really should know.

To market new condos, developers  will often invite guests to all sorts of celebrations at their trophy properties. The idea is to lure potential buyers through the door with events like art exhibits, fashion-y soirees, and, as the New York Times recently reported, dinner parties, and then entice them into buying somewhere else in the building or—in the best case scenario—said trophy apartment.