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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 downsize, and everything in between. Home is open, excited, and ready to find what’sRead more

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 apartments. West Elm Goes to Texas The expectation then becomes that every apartmentRead more

A big question. How has social media affected real estate purchases? Are there positive impacts? Negative ones? Both? On one hand, I hear stories about how Facebook is helping realtors do business, Instagram helping us promote what we’re up to, spreading the word, quite effectively, with very beautiful photographs. I do get to see absolutelyRead more

  This month I’ve been thinking about washers and dryers. What are they worth in a property? What is the discount if they aren’t allowed? This is such a NYC video. Almost everyone outside of New York City has laundry in their homes, but here, having a washer/dryer inside your apartment is subject to buildingRead more

Scott Harris from Brown Harris Stevens here, coming to you from my home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We have lots to celebrate at home as two of my children have birthdays in April- and we do what we can to host lots of events here. So let’s talk TAXES. Something that notRead more

The 1st quarter of 2019 was a big dud. Though prices increased on average in the first quarter, it was “solely due to a jump in luxury new development closings, including a record-setting $240 million sale. The average price for just resale apartments was 3% lower than a year ago, as price adjustments continue atRead more

There have been a lot of theories about why there’s been any kind of slowdown in the New York City Real Estate Market: Higher Income Taxes, Higher Real Estate Taxes, Rising Mortgage Rates (though not presently), Donald Trump, Uncertainty, a Rising Stock Market, concerns about a Falling Stock Market, tough coop boards, prices got outRead more

I’m Scott Harris at Brown Harris Stevens, founder of the Harris Residential Team. Thank you for sharing these videos and posting them to social media! My 8 year old daughter asked me last week what superpower I would want to have. Of course, this would be my second superpower, my first being the ability sellRead more

What’s Next? We are in the waiting period between the end of summer, when there’s not much new “data” to chew on. Many people are away, weighing options of what they want to do in the Fall. Buy, sell, rent, move to the suburbs, etc. I’ll cover the Trump stuff in a separate post. EveryoneRead more

This month I come to you from 107th street and Broadway, sitting in a three-bedroom condominium that will be coming to market in a few weeks. These views and finishes are amazing, from a high floor looking west, south and east. So – Let’s talk about condos. What’s different about condos is that you canRead more