I know that I’m not the only person to have gotten Alexa for the holidays. A couple of months on, I’m still enjoying having someone in the house I can boss around. Insert joke about the inmates running the asylum, etc. I love Alexa. She’s learning stuff all the time! She turns on my lights!
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As I wrote about last month, Streeteasy rolled out a customized version of a program for real estate agents, similar to what they are doing branded as Zillow or Trulia across the country. March 1st, agents were able to “purchase” zip codes. Actually, they were able to purchase a percentage of the time that their
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February is a short month, and time is moving fast! But January numbers are in, and what do they show? What’s going on under the hood? Sellers are still struggling to adjust to recent closed sales, and are negotiating in lieu of price reductions. I do love the phrase “aspirational pricing,” which Jonathan Miller brings
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You may not know that Streeteasy is shifting its focus on March 1st. Their relationship with brokerage agencies will become more adversarial, and buyers will have less transparency this week. In the rest of the country, if you’ve ever looked for a house, be it in the Hamptons, the North Fork, Florida, or elsewhere, you
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This entry seems to be an evergreen blog post idea at this point, but wow. A lot has happened in the past few months. My running partner and I had not been over the 59th Street bridge to Long Island City in some time, not since the NYC Marathon in November- when we were running
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There have been some stunning new projects coming to market, even as much has been made of sliding sales volume at the high end. I got to visit two well-located projects, 101 west 78th Street and 121 East 22nd Street. The first is a rehabilitation of a gorgeous building from another century. The second is
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Our Wine Party After a very fun thank you event at Medi Wine Bar last week, where we spent some time saying thank you to clients and our vendors, I sat back for a minute to consider how much fun it is to throw a party. I’ve been planning, producing and hosting parties and events
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Fewer New Buildings These Days? Why? Happy New Year! There are fewer residential new Manhattan development projects launching as of late, apart from very large Hudson Yards buildings. There could be a lot of reasons why we’re not seeing as much new development marketing start off lately: time of year, a wait and see approach
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As I often tell one of my good friends, one of my flaws that is that I ever expect people to behave logically and rationally. This, despite a psychology degree and 20 years of sales experience. Yet, I’m clearly not alone in having expectations that people are going to act with much sanity. Now that
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It’s appropriate that the year ends with a few thanks, with some perspective on where we, as the NYC housing market, sit. We never take enough time to be thankful, and yet there’s so much to be grateful for! Here are my top 10 things I’m thankful for as your residential real estate agent and
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