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You have a choice. Remain as you are. And stay how you've been. Or courageously commit to aggressively building a bigger, better and bolder future for yourself and your organization.
If you're fortunate enough to be well employed in this economy and have cash to spare... then my question becomes: Is this the right time to be buying real estate?
When even the former chief prosecutor opposes a trial in the military commissions he headed, there's something seriously wrong. Since their creation...
The undercurrent of disgruntlement running through residential real estate these days is decidedly different. Like the flowers that bloomed early, a number of sellers are trying to burst out of the basement and make their way above ground.
The big question is, where is the tipping point? At what point will renters become fed up with astronomically rising rents?
If there is one issue about owning a co-op or condo that will take center stage over the next few years, it will no doubt be carrying costs.
A lot of renting New Yorkers are asking themselves the obvious question: "Could it really be that much more expensive to buy something?" Here are some facts and some food for thought.
Going to school in New York lays a foundation that is four years stronger than even the most ambitious college grad could hope for.
Rising rents, low mortgage rates and bolstered consumer confidence in our fragile, yet seemingly slowly recovering economy has created a perfect storm of buyer enthusiasm. So, how do you find the perfect apartment?
With the spring selling season around the corner, if March contract signings equal or exceed those in February, things could get pretty crazy around here. But let's look forward to a good crazy.
Notwithstanding the value of the co-op approval process, I can offer this unsolicited advice: it needs a re-write. It hungers for simplification, modernization and greater time efficiencies.
How did she know that song was Richard and Elizabeth's personal love song? I went into shock. It was from the film The Sandpiper the film where I met Elizabeth, met my husband Ron Berkeley. It was the film where it all started for me in Paris in 1964.
These are what we call a city's "best-kept secret" neighborhoods. They're not secrets to most local house hunters, but outsiders looking to move in typically overlook them.
As a real estate broker for almost for 30 years, I have seen many people come and go, in and out of this industry. Why do some succeed, while others tuck tail and run?
In a tragic turn of events last week, a troubled Upper West Side condo owner who said his building harassed him about his pitbull took his own life just hours after euthanizing his healthy five-year-old dog.
They say if you can make it here you can make it anywhere, and that old line certainly rings true for Manhattan's renters. NYC is truly a tough market for those looking to lease or ready to rent.
