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Tales of a Seasoned Broker After reading repeated articles in a few of the country’s most respected news sources reporting housing stock dropping to  all time lows, I wanted to more clearly understand the context as to  how exactly this “low inventory” phenomena was affecting our hyper local market. Before we jump into the numbers,…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker The following conversation may come across as amateurish to the mechanical engineers amongst us or  to those that are more inclined towards physics and science. For me, however,  a recent home inspection with one of my clients  opened my eyes to a novel way of  comprehending one of summer’s most…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker Not much of a break is expected for home buyers this summer. As we move past June and start the second week of July any hope that prices may ease somewhat couldn’t be farther from reality. Across the board strength in housing prices persists in our area with avg listing…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker Many of my contemporaries have been sharing bedrooms with one person or another for most of their lives. Growing up in Boro Park, before it was common practice for homes to be knocked down and rebuilt to twice their size, most of my friends and I shared bedrooms with a…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker With the summer solstice occurring just days ago, camp trunks well on their way to the mountains and July 4th BBQ preparations already in the works, it’s safe to say that we are no longer in the Spring market. In years past summer time would herald a slowing of activity…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker Many of the homes we currently live in have celebrated their 100th birthday and beyond.  That’s one hundred years of heavy rain and wind storms, one hundred years of blizzards, one hundred years of hot, hazy and humid summer heat. These homes have really lived through everything. I can remember…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker For those readers who own real estate in Teaneck you have by now received a letter informing you that the town is going to reassess the value of all of the municipality’s homes.  There are many questions surrounding this process and why it is happening now.  While I cannot answer…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker As many of us took to the streets over the long holiday weekend you may have noticed the return of neighbors not seen or heard from during an extended period of time. This reappearance of long unseen neighbors generates a not uncommon conversation overheard across many front lawns. It goes…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker Since February we have been watching the welcome uptick of homes coming to market for sale in our area. There were close to double the amount of homes for sale in the beginning of May as there were in February. While this trend is encouraging, it seems that even with…

Tales of a Seasoned Broker I once conducted a meeting between a builder and my client, hammering out the details of a new home to be built on a property owned by the builder. The conversation moved from windows, to tile allowances and eventually, to everyone’s favorite -the kitchen. After all the back and forth…