Published: March 3, 2006 Last Modified: March 3, 2006 at 03:57 AM The city's real estate director stands accused of breaking ethics rules during the last home sale she worked on as a local real estate agent.

Plans for Encore, a 20-story residential tower slated for the South of Broadway (SoBro) area, received approval Thursday by the Metro Board of Zoning Appeals. And it's now set to break ground in the second quarter of this year.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the New York State Insurance Department estimate such payments raised title-insurance costs for millions of New York homeowners, the paper said, citing the people …