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(VIDEO) What Are You Waiting For? The Manhattan & Brooklyn Aren’t Waiting For Spring to Bloom


It’s a short story—but a good one. This month, I pull in fellow HRT agent Brandon Moore to talk about the markets in this video, held in an off-market Park Slope townhouse (email us for details!) They used to say the Bronx was burning. But Brooklyn is on fire! We just broke price records in
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The Silent Killer? Building Operation Costs. Here’s What Buildings—and NYC—Can Do About It.


There is a reckoning happening in New York: What it costs to operate buildings. Each of these costs factors into what homeowners pay each month. In cooperative buildings, this line item is called your maintenance fees. In condominiums, they are called common charges. In the latter, real estate taxes not included. So there is sometimes
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Our deal of the month – When The One That Got Away Didn’t Get Away! 333 East 34th Street PHM


Our Deal of The Month is a story of never giving up. Our story starts Spring 2022. Our seller had just walked away from countersigning a contract. I mean, it was THIS CLOSE! Nothing was wrong, exactly. The price was good ($1.425mm). The terms were acceptable. Problem was that our seller had nowhere to go!
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The Real Estate Trade of the Year: Bail Out of the Burbs & Brooklyn, Make Your Manhattan Move


We can already see the two best real estate trades of 2024: (1) Sell in the Suburbs and buy in Manhattan. Or (2) sell in Brooklyn—and buy in Manhattan. Inventory is so low in New Jersey, Westchester, and Connecticut that it’s driving their prices up. Bidding wars are just the start of it. In Brooklyn,
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Our Team Agent of the Month: Chloe Chasanoff


We “only” have a team of six agents, so we get to highlight their deals more than often. This January, we are shining a light on Chloe Chasanoff. Chloe has been a part of the Harris Residential Team since 2019, making her one of its longest-standing team members. Some perspective about the challenges of being
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Standing on the Edge of the 2024 Spring Market


I have already called the bottom of the real estate market in Manhattan. And as this goes to “print,” I will be doing a webinar all about a real estate market which has been unleashed by lower mortgage rates and higher demand. Now, we’re past MLK, which is the unofficial soft opening of the Spring
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What Kills Developments? Overpricing. Our January Deal of the Month.


Here’s the story behind our recent $10 Million closing at One Highline in Chelsea: Developer HFZ buys a massive parcel at 18th and the West Side Highway in Chelsea for $870mm in 2015, a near-record at the time for vacant land. The plans come together for a Bjarke Ingals-designed building that was named XI, for
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(VIDEO) Keep This One Thing In Mind As We Enter the 2024 Real Estate Market


There’s only one thing you need to remember as you go into 2024, at least as it relates to the New York City Real Estate Market: 99% of what you’ll hear or read has nothing to do with it. That’s right. Manhattan hasn’t been operating like anywhere else. In nearly every other market, buyers vociferously
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The Rare Distressed Sale in NYC- Our Deal of the Month


2023 was a year of twists and turns in the New York City’s real estate market. While we were able to navigate this challenging time for our clients, not every buyer or seller was so lucky. Many buyers expressed frustration about the lack of inventory. Many sellers chased a market down to find the right
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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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