I love this article.  It covers so much of what interests me, at the intersection of culture and real estate.  Where people want to live; urban vs suburban; how people want to live; experiences vs things; generational change; what stays the same; investing …

  In This Month’s Video I discussed the missed opportunity in New York, that is ignoring more than half of the population here.  That is, women! Women are buying properties for themselves.  No one is waiting anymore to get married to buy …

After 10 years of keeping a monthly newsletter, I have discovered that I still quite like sharing what I’m learning about the real estate market, or from my travels around New York City and the world.  I’ve written about running, new developments, …

No…not that TV show.  With a love of making fun of myself, a curiosity in exploring the New York City real estate market in more depth, and a variety of ways to present what Visionary Brokerage is all about, I’ve accepted the …

  Buyers usually show two sides: The homebuyer side and the analytical side. Usually, it’s the homebuyer side that shows the truth.  A buyer is trying to move forward in her life, for any number of reasons.  Time to expand, time to …

I’ve written about how buyers have gotten a bit accustomed to TV shows, where every house in Waco, Texas looks like a West Elm catalog.  In the case of New York City, buyers have started to see more, more, and more staged …

I haven’t been writing as much on new development of late.  In  this case, I wanted to think through what buying in a particular new building would look like if you decided, from the building, that you would be buying as an …

I think WE all are watching the implosion of We(Work) with curiosity.  Beyond their chief co-working offering, I found the educational experiment of WeGrow fairly interesting, and my limited experience with Adam Neumann and his wife Rebekah, who were fellow parents at my …

One of my favorite times is when my customers, aka my homebuyers, bring their families to see their new apartment for the first time. Of course, some buyers bring a consensus-building approach to their purchases, bringing lots of family members to the …

Conventional Wisdom would see things this way:  If the sales market is strong, the rental market should be weak.  If the sales market is weak, the rental market should then be strong. Most of the time, it looks that way.  And right …