Real Estate Insights

The Purchase CEMA

A little-known tactic which allows buyers and sellers to reduce, or even avoid, mortgage and state transfer taxes. It's a super easy trick, and yet very few people know to do it!

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Buying Without Breaking (up)

Going off the deep end? There's hardly a more NYC-esque date than going apartment shopping after work, then wining and dining night after night until you reach that pinnacle of cohabitation.

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Buyers Guide 2019

The purchasing process in NYC is unique and more complex than it is in other parts of the country. Here is an overview and timeline of the sequence of events in a typical transaction, once the perfect home has been selected.

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The Secrets of Successful Holiday Tipping

While gift-giving should be a joyous activity, holiday tipping is very often fraught with anxiety for most New Yorkers.

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The Upside to Upsizing

Real estate is a lifelong investment strategy, not a one time transaction. View it with a long term lens and use balance sheet mentality.

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How to Be a Seller in a Buyer's Market

Prices have come down in the midst of a normal market fluctuation, so how do you not only navigate, but thrive in this market as a seller?

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New Development - Secrets No One is Telling You

Once you know what to watch out for, there are some killer deals out there for the well-informed buyer.

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The Big Green Apple

Today's discerning luxury buyers are looking for homes that are good for the environment as well as for their own well-being, and real estate developers have gotten the memo.

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The Townhouse Opportunity

Besides being my ultimate New York dream home, they have recently become a little known value opportunity (and they say that doesn't exist in Manhattan)

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