Ronald E. Roel
Ronald Roel was the former editor of the Act 2 and real estate sections. He has held positions ranging from deputy business editor to deputy national editor. He joined Newsday in 1987 as a workplace reporter.
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Other Columnists 1/11/07 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Set on a bluff overlooking Hempstead Harbor, the compact ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 1/4/07 NEW CONSTRUCTION
During the decade that Bob Havasy has been building ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 12/28/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
About a year and half ago, Eugene Coppola approached ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 12/21/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
As many empty-nesters look to downsize from large ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 12/14/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
The allure of Old Orchard Woods can be captured in two ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 12/7/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
These days, the Roslyn viaduct is a welter of construction ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/30/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
In a real estate market increasingly defined by niches, The ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/23/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
When Wayne Steck decides to build a house on spec, he ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/16/06 Woodbury complex really goes to town
When developers plan multi-unit complexes on Long Island, ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/9/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Amid growing concern about the lack of affordable housing ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/2/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Six years ago, Kathy Scarpinella of Smithtown was looking ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 10/26/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Amid a burgeoning array of new town houses and condo ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 10/19/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Along Carleton Avenue in CentralIslip - within a short ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 10/12/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
It's where East meets West - at least, in the high end of ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 10/5/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Most age-restricted communities on Long Island are designed ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 9/28/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Two years ago, Carl Dworman was taking a physician ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 9/21/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
The Hamptons have long been known for luxurious second ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 9/14/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
When David Marom was planning a new community of high-end ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 9/7/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
In recent years, golf-course communities have become a ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/31/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
With suburban sprawl under growing scrutiny by many towns ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/24/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
The real estate market may be slowing, but there's always ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/17/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
'I look for these kinds of situations - like a bee to ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/10/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
When Susan Barbash finishes the final phase of The Villages ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/3/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
SoHo in suburbia: That's the distinctive sentiment behind ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/20/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
For custom builders, the key is providing choices for home ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/13/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Josef Omland has built luxury subdivisions on the North ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/6/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
It may take a village to create a new development, but ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 6/29/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
On an occasionally rainy evening earlier this month, the ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 6/22/06 NEW CONSTRUCTION
It's become a familiar scene in many older neighborhoods: ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 2/17/05 BUYERS AND CELLARS
About two years ago, Bernie Wagner and his wife, Barbara, ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 1/6/05 BUYERS AND CELLARS
For more than a year Gloria Fumo went house-hunting - ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/29/04 Giving suburbia an urban edge
If you're worried that more dense housing developments will ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 6/24/04 Love it and Levitt in Florida
For those of us who remember the early days of Levittown - ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 6/3/04 Some lofty ideas in Houston
Sometimes it helps to leave home to gain perspective on the ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 5/13/04 What else is bustin' out all over?
With spring finally bursting forth this month, it's time to ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 4/22/04 Renovating the idea of suburbia
When I moved to Glen Cove 10 years ago, my wife and I were ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 3/18/04 Stormy forecast for home market
Earlier this week, as I braced against the sleet of an ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 2/26/04 Making mixed-used spaces work
When I was a year out of college, I took a shared ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 2/12/04 Double Whammy: Price and Paperwork
If you're relocating to New York from another part of the ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 1/29/04 Crystal Ball Likely to Favor Buyers
In our winter of discontent, many of us have developed bad ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 1/15/04 Courses for Struggling First-Timers
In the past year, two broad and troubling issues have ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 1/1/04 Deciphering the Year Past, Ahead
If you look up the linguistic origin of January, you'll ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 12/18/03 Spirited Home Tales for the Holidays
While the housing season takes a break for the holidays, ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/20/03 Seniors Set Example for Smart Growth
For more than seven hours today, hundreds of housing ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 11/6/03 This Complex Doesn't Miss the Boat
By the waters of Babylon, there's a new Victorian-style ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 10/23/03 Let Us Continue Our Co-Education
As some of you already know, I recently assumed the ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 10/2/03 On a Full Moon, Empty Lots Are $19.99
When the full moon rises next week, take a good look at its ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 9/25/03 Favorable Forecast From Freddie Mac
At a sumptuous buffet breakfast this week, about 75 ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 9/4/03 Pondering a Walden Pond on LI
While vacationing in the Pennsylvania countryside last ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/28/03 Land Prices Are a Pip on This Tiny Slip
It comes down to the price of land. ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/14/03 Creating 'Family' for Seniors at Apex
One by one, they told their stories. ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/7/03 $300G Is the New Magic Number
This summer we hit the housing trifecta. ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/31/03 Prefab Homes Gain a Higher Profile
There have been reams of articles written recently about ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/17/03 He's Saving Energy by Starting Over
When life deals you a lemon, make lemonade, the old saying ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 7/10/03 In Search of the New Hamptons
Watching the Hamptons- bound traffic grow each week - ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 7/3/03 Prices as High as the Manhattan Sky
One recent afternoon, I took a tour of a partly finished ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 6/26/03 Rain Brings Out the Serious Buyers
Perhaps by the dog days of August, we'll be able to look ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 6/19/03 Freddie Mac Ferment Won't Pop Bubble
Last week, there was a hiccup in the housing market. ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 6/5/03 What About That Real Estate Bubble?
This month's issue of Money magazine features an extensive ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 5/22/03 Habitat Builds Sense of Community
Just before 11 a.m. last Friday more than three dozen ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 5/15/03 Affordable-Housing Field of Dreams
Sometimes ideas are like old toys: It's fun to pull them ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 5/8/03 Full Disclosure of Disclosure Views
About a month ago, I wrote a column about the state's ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 4/17/03 A Lesson in Home Buying Assistance
One afternoon last week I walked into a large boardroom in ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 4/10/03 Is Disclosure Law a House of Horrors?
At first glance, it seems to come down to a "culture of ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 4/3/03 3 Experts Take Market Temperature
In spite of another short blast of winter this week, the ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 3/20/03 The Age Divide on Affordable Housing
These are not easy times to talk about consensus. ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 3/13/03 Realtors Get Ethics Refresher Course
There's been much ado about ethics training these days, as ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 3/6/03 The Summer People Get Their Say
On a frigid evening in midtown Manhattan, about 50 people ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 2/27/03 Outside the Box and Into a House
A few days before the Presidents' Day blizzard, I ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 2/13/03 Young Single's Ordeal Is Too Common
Last week I sat down for lunch at the Sweet Hollow Diner in ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 1/30/03 Making Child's Play of Home-Building
Someday - and that day will not come any time soon - my ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 1/23/03 'Fractional' Resorts: Getting Clubby
Now that the swirl of the holiday season is well behind us, ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 1/16/03 A Pro Looks Beyond the 'Bubble'
Sitting amid the din of the lunchtime crowd at the Tribeca ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 12/5/02 Virtually Something From Nothing
Having watched "Ice Age" three - no, four - times with my ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 11/21/02 Partnering With a Big-Time Developer
Every time I think Long Island is so built up that builders ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 11/14/02 Find Your Niche, Scout Neighborhoods
In the past couple of years of our high-priced housing ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 11/7/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Momentum for Affordable Housing Rises
In the still of the early morning a few months ago, one of ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 10/17/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Breaking Ground on 'Developments'
As the weather turned cool in recent days, I noticed an ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 10/10/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / A Search for Community, Gates or Not
Three weeks ago, after running a cover story on gated ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 10/3/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Curbing Predatory Home Loan Scams
Last week, the New York City Council passed by an ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 9/19/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Talk About the Ultimate Safe House
As the drumbeat sounded in Washington this week for ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 9/12/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Welcome Mat Out for Walk On Home
For years, nonprofit organizations have sponsored annual ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 9/5/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Their Ways of Remembering Sept. 11
In the waning days of August, my family spent a special ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 8/29/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / LI Leads U.S. in Home Price Increases
With nationwide second-quarter results just in for median ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 8/22/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Resist Those E-Mortgage Come-ons
At a time when enticingly low interest rates are likely to ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 8/8/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Searching for Your Homestead Roots
Much of the talk about "smart growth" in recent years has ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 8/1/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Questions for the Dog Daze of August
A few days after the stock market crashed in October 1987, ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 7/11/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Does YHD Have the 2% Solution?
Right after New Year's Day, YHD Foxtons, the unconventional ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 7/4/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / California Mirrors LI Housing Issues
While on vacation during the last two weeks, my wife and I ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 6/13/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Virtual Tours Are a Snap With EGG
Since the late 1990s, virtual home tours over the Internet ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 6/6/02 BUYER AND CELLARS / Some Surprises in Housing Prices
When the latest census figures came out recently, there was ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 5/23/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Wake-Up Call on Affordable Housing
In the course of one afternoon this week, I talked to three ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 5/16/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Are Long Island Homes Overpriced?
One day in early March I got a phone call from a woman who ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 5/9/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / A Magazine for the Hamptons' Jet Set
At a time when the magazine industry has been trying to ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 5/2/02 BUYERS AND CELLERS / The Nuts and Bolts of Buying a Home
On the veranda of Citibank Park, the home of the Long ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 4/25/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Creating a 'Panic Room' of Your Own
WHEN THE LIGHTS go up at the end of Jodie Foster's hit ... Read more »
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Ronald E. Roel 4/18/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Here on LI, Our Lots in Life Have Changed
WHEN I ASKED readers last week to tell me what kind of ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 4/11/02 BUYERS AND CELLARS / Defining 'Affordable' in Housing Market
ON A BRIGHT but chilly afternoon recently, Cliff Fetner and ... Read more »
