A Lack of “Price Discovery” = Summer Deals


Buyers should be out looking for properties now.  The combination of low interest rates and softer real estate prices should be quite alluring!!  The best opportunity in perhaps a GENERATION.  Yet there are many buyers who are sitting on the sidelines. I don’t know that they are contentedly sitting on the sidelines, but they are.   We
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Cities Versus Suburbs- The Battle Royale


I have been connecting my clients to agents all across Vermont, Westchester, the Hamptons, Upstate New York, and Connecticut.  Mostly about buying- 95% about buying. In addition to that, I am also getting updates from other clients that they are buying in all of the same areas above.  Beautiful farms, wooded homes, the gamut. Newspapers
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#NoShlepping – What Buyers Have Tolerated. A Better Buying Experience. The Top Ten Shlep Factors to Eliminate.


Only when you can step away from your normal day, can you ever really take a good, long look at how you are doing things.  And in this time, it has become abundantly clear that the process, the ordeal, the buyers put themselves through- or that they tolerate- is broken.  This is part of my three-part
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The 85% Theory and the Notion of the “Virtual Tour Barbell”


Virtual Tours What Are They.  How in the Hell did we get here?  Customers have gotten very used to seeing property in person, and fumbling through the ramshackle experience of buying property here without thinking much about it.  THAT TIME IS OVER.  Touring properties in person will, in my view, take a backseat, or at
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Brokerage 3.0: What Came Before & What Lies Ahead


I’ve been a real estate agent since 2003.  17+ years later, especially in this moment, I can look back and put my History Major hat on.  Let’s look quickly at what am calling Brokerage 1.0, Brokerage 2.0, and now, what seems obviously to be Brokerage 3.0. Brokerage 1.0 When I started in residential real estate
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An Open Letter To My Homebuyers and Sellers


Please take a look at our video which explains everything in a nutshell. Our aim, every day, whether today or tomorrow, is to provide a clear and compelling vision of your next home. We are reopening the Real Estate market in June and want to give you some clarity about our plans. We are already seeing
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How We Will Live the Same. How We Will Live Differently. Re-Setting the Table in New York City.


We will all read a host of predictions for how the home of the future will look different.  The pandemic may change behavior.  But given that in New York City, you live in 100-year-old homes, and in London they live in 400-year-old homes, and in Jerusalem they live in 1000-year-old homes- I venture to guess
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An Invitation: The Spring Clean Challenge


There are many things that one may choose to focus on that are less than positive.  Just open the paper and randomly point at any article.  To be sure, we chose to take the other route, which is to focus on what we could do that would best serve our clients and our community.  Realizing
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VIDEO: Spring Cleaning and What You Can Do Now!


We have never had this much time to work on our business. I am so grateful for you, and all of the ideas that have been pouring forth during this time. If you are not in new york city, i want to say thank you for all of your emails, and outreach to see how
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VIDEO: Real Estate During & After The Great Pause


We New Yorkers like to think that we’re the best, and that NYC is at the center of everything in the world.  Right now, we certainly are at the center of a challenging time that the United States face.  Plenty has already been said about the troubles we’re confronted with, and what could lie ahead.
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Recent Blog Posts

The End of Rental Broker Commissions As You Know It. The Beginning of Even-Higher Rents.
The Sometimes Secret to Dealmaking? Waiting. (Our Deal of the Month @ 52 Riverside Drive)
(VIDEO) Don’t Take My Word For It. The NYC Housing Market is Better Than You’ve Heard.
How Much does Overcustomization Cost? (Our Deal of the Month)
A New Way To Save Real $$ on your Prewar Apartment Renovation—by Using Smart Home Systems (and Calling the Electrician)
(VIDEO) The Win-Win Window is Closing
What Happens when Your Agent Becomes an Advisor? Our Deal of the Month: 24 East 82nd
The Nothingburger of the Buyer Representation Scandal
The Non-Binary Housing Market
(VIDEO) How Lower Rates Are Already Impacting the NYC Housing Market

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