The Millionth Article Advising You to Get Pre-approved Before Visiting Homes for Sale
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, ne....
The Most Compelling Economic Indicator for Real Estate on Earth
As the real estate market cycles into a recovery, talking heads are discussing what index will be the most accurate predictor of the 2014 market. Will it be new housing starts? Emp....
Why You Can’t Steal a Co-op
While the real estate market here in Westchester and the Hudson Valley is certainly on the mend, one vestige of the old buyer’s market, the would be-buyer with the low ball o....
Buyers: I’m Not Lying About Other Offers on my Listing
Three times in the past two weeks, we have had listings go in bidding wars. Three times in the past two weeks, we have had buyer agents tell me that their buyer client did not be....
Grand Salami
Home inspections are so important that, unlike most markets, local attorneys will not draw up contracts until they are settled. They are never a contingency of the contract in West....
On Hovercrafts
I was fortunate enough to be quoted in Business week in an article entitled Why Redfin, Zillow, and Trulia Haven’t Killed Off Real Estate Brokers. I spoke with the reporte....