We hear you. There’s something about crossing the 7% threshold that makes you want to throw your hands up and say, “forget it.” And honestly, that might be the right call for you. New York is a city of renters, and there are plenty of other ways to build long-term wealth. But what if the […]
Victoria Alexander started Realty Collective 21 years ago, and she has spent the time since selling and advising across South Brooklyn, including Red Hook. That is long enough to see the market go through several cycles. Lately she has been watching something she says is easy to miss in the city’s housing debate: the small, […]
Finding a buyer is only the beginning. Between the accepted offer and handing over the keys are dozens of moving pieces most sellers never see: title work, inspections, lender conditions, attorney coordination, payoff statements, condo or co-op sign-offs, closing adjustments. Some of it is expected. Some of it catches sellers completely off guard, most often […]
New York real estate has its own language, and nobody teaches it to you before you need it. You learn “flip tax” the week you’re selling. You learn “post-closing liquidity” the day a board package is due. You learn “accepted offer” means almost nothing the day someone else signs the contract first. So here it […]
Before you open StreetEasy. Before you start saving listings. Before you fall in love with a kitchen. Start by understanding what you actually have the capacity to buy, not what you think you might be able to afford – but what you can actually afford in writing. I say this to every buyer who sits […]
You closed. Or you signed the lease. Either way you’re now standing in an empty apartment wondering how people do this without surrendering a paycheck to a Swedish warehouse or a same-day-shipping algorithm. Here’s the thing: you live in the best borough in America for furnishing a home without touching a chain store. Brooklyn’s furniture […]
There is a whole economy built around your home’s data, and most buyers have no idea it exists. We put a short version of this on Instagram last week (see the post here), and the response told us it deserved more than seven slides. So here’s the longer conversation, because this is one of the […]
In April, we shared news about a proposal in the state budget that would have changed the NYC mansion tax. The plan was to lower the threshold from $1 million to $500,000, make sellers pay instead of buyers, and add new tax brackets. We mentioned then that things could change before anything became final, and […]
Last month, on an earnings call, the CEO of the largest residential brokerage in the country asked a question he seemed to think answered itself: what seller wouldn’t want their listing agent to bring their own buyer? Appraiser and longtime market analyst Jonathan Miller took that question apart in a recent piece on his Housing […]
If you own a 1-9 unit residential building in New York City, as of September 8, the Department of Sanitation can write you a $50 summons for putting your trash out in anything other than an official NYC Bin. We said a short version of this on Instagram last week (watch the Reel here), and […]
