Putting a neat little bow on the real estate boom that was, brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman and our friend Jonathan Miller of appraisal firm Miller Samuel have issued three reports covering the past decade. The 1999-2008 reports cover Manhattan co-ops and condos, the Manhattan townhouse market ...

[Top photo: Newsday; Bottom photos: Sotheby's] Dragon's Head, the 55,000-square-foot Southampton mansion known as Elysium before a tax cheat bought it in 1979 and broke "almost every zoning law in the book" ( Forbes' words) by renovating and enlarging the structure beyond all recognition, will soon ...