Westchester Real Estate News
The Millionth Article Advising You to Get Pre-approved Before Vis
You’ve read it before, unless you just learned to read (in which case house hunting is a long way off for you), on financial platforms, blogs, real estate websites, magazines, newspapers, and maybe even ancient hieroglyphs: get pre approved before…
How Low is the Housing Inventory? Pretty Bloody Low, That’s
While making a training video on market reports for the agents this past week, I clicked on an old market report I wrote in November 2011 for Ossining. Among other things, I noted that there were 119 single family homes…
State of J Philip Real Estate: 2021 Edition
Writing the year’s wrap up used to be my New Years eve ritual, but with the scale of the job these days it’s impossible to quantify everything by midnight on 12/31. So let’s dive into my happy summary of a…
State of J Philip Real Estate: 2020 Edition
This marks the first time I have not posted this update on New year’s eve, so it feels weird to wrote a piece about 2020 in February 2021. However, I’ve got great reasons. 2020 was by far the most surreal…
7 Things the Industry Should be Doing Amid Coronavirus
(Note: the following piece was originally published in Inman News) Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been reading — with great concern — about how the ripple effect of the coronavirus pandemic is playing out and how it will affect…
State of J. Philip Real Estate: 2019 Edition
Spoiler alert: Best year ever by every metric we employ. Last year’s summary was wrapped up thusly: In years past, I’ve made numerical predictions, but this year I’m going to be a bit more coy. I’m looking for good agents…