American Dream New York! And Here We Go!


When I first heard about this TV show, I wanted to be a part of it. What piqued my interest was that it would enable me to continue carving out a voice for how real estate actually gets done in New York. There is room for lots of fun TV, the most famous of which
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VIDEO: Where Do You Want to Live For The Next Decade?


This month I speak about, what else? The real estate market! What is different is that this is the last newsletter that I will put out for the DECADE! And that had me thinking bigger picture than usual. Where do you want to live for the next decade? Are you where you want to be?
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Washington DC vs NYC- a Tale of Two Very Different Real Estate Cities


I am in that kind of reflective mood, and I would guess that between parties and large meals, you might want to think about something different than just the normal fare that I present in my newsletter. Not that I am writing normal fare. So maybe I don’t need to qualify it at all. So
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Baby Boomers and Their Unloved Houses


I love this article. It covers so much of what interests me, at the intersection of culture and real estate. Where people want to live; urban vs suburban; how people want to live; experiences vs things; generational change; what stays the same; investing in the city vs the suburbs. I have a number of clients
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VIDEO: Marketing Real Estate to Women


In This Month’s Video I discussed the missed opportunity in New York, that is ignoring more than half of the population here. That is, women! Women are buying properties for themselves. No one is waiting anymore to get married to buy real estate, least of all so many successful women. This includes our many amazing
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Lessons Learned from a Month of Facebook Live


After 10 years of keeping a monthly newsletter, I have discovered that I still quite like sharing what I’m learning about the real estate market, or from my travels around New York City and the world. I’ve written about running, new developments, the good and bad behavior of agents, companies, apps, ideas, renovations, you name
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Exclusive News Here- Scott and the Harris Residential Team are Going on TV!


No…not that TV show. With a love of making fun of myself, a curiosity in exploring the New York City real estate market in more depth, and a variety of ways to present what Visionary Brokerage is all about, I’ve accepted the opportunity to be a part of American Dream NYC. American Dream is a
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VIDEO: Is it EVER About Timing The Market?


Buyers usually show two sides: The homebuyer side and the analytical side. Usually, it’s the homebuyer side that shows the truth. A buyer is trying to move forward in her life, for any number of reasons. Time to expand, time to downsize, and everything in between. Home is open, excited, and ready to find what’s
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Broker Fatigue & Buyer Opportunity


I’ve written about how buyers have gotten a bit accustomed to TV shows, where every house in Waco, Texas looks like a West Elm catalog. In the case of New York City, buyers have started to see more, more, and more staged apartments. The expectation then becomes that every apartment is renovated, ready for instagram.
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“The Producers” Off-Off Broadway (on 87th Street)?


I haven’t been writing as much on new development of late. In this case, I wanted to think through what buying in a particular new building would look like if you decided, from the building, that you would be buying as an investor. In this case, after five years, the math could work so that
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