Valentine’s Day has come and gone, yet my love affair with NYC real estate continues. I like to poke fun at Hallmark, but you have to hand it to them- they created an industry which promotes our showing how much we care about each other. So that’s not too bad. Right after our January newsletter,
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Each month The Practical Home features things you can do yourself for your home. As we go through our business day, we come across ideas that push the boundaries of DIY. This month we are beta-testing an art feature, courtesy of my friend, founder and Art Director, Jennifer Wallace of nAscent Art. Often, the bar
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Organizing expert Maeve Richmond (On Twitter: @Cluttergirl) of GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER weighs in on Valentine’s Day. She writes, “Let’s celebrate the beauty of your home.” If it’s a time to love, let’s love your home. She tells me “Look Beyond The Mess.” Every home has something to love. Look beyond perceived household messes
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The stock market starts to move up, the mortgage rates start to move up. Not exactly in lockstep, but that was what mortgage brokers were telling me at the end of the year. I was not to worry about rates going too high in 2011, as the Fed was taking steps to keep rates down.
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We’re well into Valentine’s Month! The marketing started just after the Christmas trees were taken down. You’re definitely getting mixes messages in your media. On one hand, messages about eating healthy, losing weight, saving for say, apartments. On the other hand, eating candy, going out for huge Valentine’s meals, and spending lots of money on
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My friends in other cities such as Denver told me in late October how they were inundated with commercials for the November 2010 elections. They couldn’t turn on the television without seeing one candidate bash his/her opponent. New Yorkers rarely have the pleasure/displeasure of these commercials on a state-wide scale. All of our competitive races
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For all of 2010, I found that apartment that needed renovations were difficult to sell. Far more so than I had seen in the past. Certainly, I do not think that buyers suffer from a lack of vision any more than in the past. Unfortunately for many buyers, they cannot see past what’s right in
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Surprisingly enough, what we’ve discovered after a few months of looking backwards, was that buying spiked during the 2nd quarter of 2010 on the low end of the market. Lo and behold, this buyer credit had much more of an impact than we thought at the time! A lot of buying got pushed forward to
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My wife and I are proud parents for the second time! Elizabeth Simone Harris was born on December 23rd. We like to write about what we know, or at least that’s what we’re supposed to be best at writing. Just in time for my blog post, there was a great article in the NYTimes. I’m
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I had the opportunity to sit in on a very small meeting with Greg Heym, chief economist for Halstead Property Company, and Brown Harris Stevens. As you may or may not know, we are sister companies each owned by Terra Holdings. One of the (many) reasons why I love working here is that our ownership
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