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New York has good reasons to look for real estate besides having a large population!

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Real Estate Agent with https://teamcoker.robertpaul.com 9023635

In reference to the Top Ten States Searched report that REindex.com just placed on its website:  NY - There are market areas of strength apart from the weight of NYC population that are the reason for so many people searching for NY real estate.  In an area that supports 2 teams for football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and who knows what else, there are just a lot of people that consider the NYC area the place to be.  Then there is the rest of NY.  Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Syracuse, and Lawng-Eyelan, all operate on the outskits of a place where million dollar closets and all night pizzas rule. The shear numbers of people interested in NYC real estate will always make the market there active.  And yet, the other areas of New York are quietly gaining their own notariety as places of real estate interest. 

While Buffalo still has a ways to go before the foreclosures are absorbed, there are forecasts showing the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area with appreciation into 2009.  Also, a number of new banks have opened in Buffalo.  Rochester is growing steadily and consistently.  Syracuse is also quietly on the increase.  Many New York cities have reasonable job growth and stablility.  So apart from the massive weight of NYC, the condition of the New York  real estate market as a whole is positive. 

In the first quarter report of the OFHEO, New York has many areas with strong positive, appreciation.  The Albany-Schenectady-Troy area is shown to have almost 3% appreciation. ( page 26 of the report ) The Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse, Glens Falls areas have more than 3% appreciation and Elmira is close to 7%.  The Utica/Rome area is almost 8%, Binghamton is close to 10%, and Ithaca is over 10% appreciation!  Each of these areas can be researched for its own unique econimic reasons, but these numbers are encouraging.

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Heath Coker, Associate Broker
Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices Robert Paul Properties
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Comments (2)

Laura Cerrano
Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY
Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Heath, I don't think the prices of real estate in the City have fallen at all...and from what I had read, many places in New York are doing very well.  I know many people have left Long Island while others are looking here.

Jul 26, 2008 04:35 PM
Associate Broker Falmouth MA Cape Cod Heath Coker
https://teamcoker.robertpaul.com - Falmouth, MA
Heath Coker Berkshire Hathaway HS Robert Paul Prop

Yep, Carole.  There are lots of good reasons to look in NY, besides the City and in the City, for good real estate!

Jul 26, 2008 05:04 PM