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Sandy Smith

Home and Real Estate Editor

Sandy Smith is Philadelphia magazine’s Home and Real Estate editor. A Kansas City native, he has called Philly home for more than 35 years. He reports on houses for sale, condos for sale, apartments for rent, new construction, development and trends in the Greater Philadelphia real estate market.

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City Life

6 Ways Philly Really Is a World-Class City

Smith: That Spanish business school report was no joke.

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Property

Northern Liberties Neighbors Approve Development on Fairmount Ave.

The historic Trans Atlantic Co. warehouse will get a makeover.

Property

Death of a Rowhome

For ‘Funeral for a Home,’ Temple Contemporary and Tyler sought a structure whose death could tell the story of a home, a family, and a community as well.

Property

NoLibs Neighbors See Through Developer’s Trick

That 38-foot height limitation can be a bitch.

Property

Could the End Be Near for Wash West’s Lincoln?

Its owners have been interviewing demolition companies.

City Life

Why the Rush to Revive All-Night Subway Service?

Smith: Yes, it’s great. But SEPTA continues to ignore other, more under-served areas.

Property

15th and Walnut Buildings to Get Major Retail Upgrade

MSC Retail is shopping the PREIT-owned buildings to more upscale tenants.

Property

Enormous Italianate Mansions Coming to Graduate Hospital

Is the 1400 block of Bainbridge becoming the land of million-dollar homes?

Property

Inside Graduate Hospital’s Carpenter Square

New townhomes with eco-friendly features.

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Property

Housing Is the Bright Spot In Pew’s “State of the City”

All thanks to the pretty young things who have arrived on Philly shores.

City Life

Race and the Roots of Philly Transit Strikes

Smith: The racially motivated wildcat strike of 1944 continues to haunt us.

Property

NoLibs Neighbors Split Down Middle on Dwell

The new development seems to be a love-hate proposition.

City Life

6 Design Ideas SEPTA Should Steal Now

Smith: The system’s stations and shelters could look as nice as its new Regional Rail stations … without much effort.

Property

Rittenhouse Brownstone Morphs Into 12 Apartments

Ebenezer Warren’s former home yielded plenty of original details — and one dead cat.

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Property

There Is a New Development Called Awesometown

And Postgreen assures you it will be rad to live there.