Croton on Hudson is the village directly north of Ossining. It is a very charming locale on the Hudson with parks, great neighborhoods, and a large train station hub on the Metro North Hudson Line. My older brother and his family also live there. I used to camp at Croton Point Park as a Boy Sco
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10/10/2010
There is one rather immutable truth to real estate: if you write a commission check, you are at a closing table selling your property. Which, I believe, is the point. Closing. Often, when listing a For Sale By Owner (most end up listing), I am asked what happens if someone who expressed interes
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10/09/2010
I know I'll hear dissent on this post, but it is my belief that the buyer agent (or listing for that matter) attending an appraisal is a waste of time in most cases. I have had situations where the borrower themselves wanted to go, and after they were ignored by the appraiser, who left 10 minutes
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10/09/2010
This is the market data for September of 2010 for single family homes in Peekskill, and all information is sourced from the Westchester-Putnam MLS. There was nowhere to go but up after a very poor August, and we may be looking at a "new normal" for this charming little city on the Hudson. The
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10/08/2010
Your business IS our business if you wish to do business. Buyers in today's market are in many ways in the driver's seat in the purchase of real estate. However, they answer to a lender prior to closing, and in the case of cooperatives in New York, they also have to pass the board application pr
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10/07/2010
Here's one from the other side of the closing table, where I represented buyers on a 5-month odyssey to purchase a short sale in Yonkers. It made me appreciate the waiting game that buyers must endure, and how valuable status updates are to home purchasers of a short sale in order to stay engaged
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10/06/2010
Yonkers is the largest city in Westchester County with a population hovering near 200,000. It borders the Bronx to the south, Mt Vernon and Bronxville to the east, and Hastings and Scarsdale to the north. It has some fantastic Hudson waterfront all along the western border. It is also the former
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10/05/2010
I got an email this morning from a well meaning associate about a draconian tax on real estate transactions supposedly due to start in 2013, and of course the editorial message of the email decries President Obama, Speaker of the House Pelosi, Harry Reid,and the rest of the Democratic leadership.
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10/04/2010
I still love helping buyers. I don't do it as much as I used to because I am running the company and most buyer requests are given to my very good team of agents who give great service. Our buyers get their own Listingbook account for MLS home searches, automatic email updates when a home that fi
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10/03/2010
What can you buy in different parts of Westchester County for half a million? Interesting question. I did a survey of closed transactions around the county in the past 30 days, and what I found speaks to the different characters of the many areas of our fair county. Bear in mind that these are cl
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10/03/2010
