As I think about what to share each month on the blog, I break the newsletter into its pieces, including the New Development Round-Up. This month, I was remarking to myself that I didn’t have any new developments to share- and my mind started to riff on this. No new developments to share. Well, almost
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What is on my mind this month is gratitude. I am grateful, for the sake of so many sellers, that the market in Manhattan seems to substantively moved past a bottom. Pick your metaphor: Turned a corner, come out of the woods, what have you. To quote the great band Florence and the Machine, “The
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Live today, I am so pleased to launch a Harris Residential Team website as a companion to my firm’s site, www.bhsusa.com. The website is www.harrisresidential.com – which will replace the current WordPress site which has faithfully hosted my blog for a long time. This will be a more effective way for me to share with
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The bread and butter of a real estate business is having properties to sell. Thank goodness for the ownership of Vanderbilt Appraisal Company, who give me and my team accurate information about the number of listings in Manhattan and help me understand trends and forecasts. Their recent report showed that the sales volume actually dipped
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Consistent sales over a decade have proven Scott’s tailored campaign system. A constant finger on the market pulse wins Harris Residential Real Estate campaigns steady international press and a business based purely on referrals.
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Brown Harris Stevens is the exclusive New York City affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, which means that we hold our Annual Meeting at 20 Rockefeller Center, where the large auctions are held. The relationship means worldwide coverage and relationships with the best in class brokers everywhere around the globe. It also means we get
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Michael Stoler does some great primary research into multi-family, hotels, commercial property trades- which informs my business but isn’t my primary focus. The overlap in this week’s email was interesting. If you care to read below, he goes into detail about the rental buildings different REIT (real estate investment trusts) are purchasing. But what I’m
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Here are a number properties which I’ll be very excited to report on in coming months: 150 e 72nd 737 park The Drake hotel site 400 Park Avenue (new Toll Brothers site) 150 Charles 71 Charles 79th and 3rd 18 gram park later 2012 However, my new development monthly update will be one building in
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Recognize one of these guys? This is a fun award to win. -Scott
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In case you missed it, the New York Times did a piece called “So You’re Priced Out. Now What?” They showed areas in which prices have stayed strong, or gone up signficantly in recent years, and offered suggestions of areas which might be more afforable. The premise of the article is that there is an
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