Top 5 & Bottom 5 Housing Markets 2008

Where The Growth Is And Isn’t In The Housing Markets, CNN Money lists the 100 biggest housing markets by population, there are still plenty slated to show price gains from April 2007 to April 2008. Here are the top 5 and the bottom 5. Forecasts by Fiserv Lending Solutions.
Growing… McAllen, Texas
12-month forecast: 9.8%
Median home price: [...]

Loving The Menu At Eighty One: Resturant Review

Eighty One: 45 West 81st Street (Columbus Avenue)
Cuisine: American Nouveau
Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Phone: (212) 873.8181
Price: $$$$

Nutshell: In a big-ticket-designer (Chris Smith) space with a casual vibe, seafood savant Ed Brown features a globally inspired menu that emphasizes sourcing luxury ingredients, screw the food miles.

Book a reservation at 81 now.

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It’s the kind of place you [...]

Top Stories In Real Estate: A Digest May 30th

Biggest Losers In Real Estate: Some of the biggest losers in the real estate slump are buyers of second homes who are sitting on a tax time bomb. While Congress has granted some tax relief to people who lose their primary homes, there is no such aid for those who fall behind on payments on [...]

New York City Real Estate, Is It Hot Or Not?

It’s a subjective question I know, please feel free to chime in in the comments area below. For me, the answer is YES, “It’s Still Hot!” Fortunately I am busy, apartments are selling, customers are happy and new deals are to be had!

Many people ask me “what is the key to keeping things HOT, that [...]

The Middle East Is Buying Up More of Manhattan Real Estate

Middle Eastern investors in New York may be shifting their sights from banks to buildings.
The city’s real estate industry is looking to the region to replicate the capital infusions that Gulf and Asian sovereign wealth funds made into Wall Street banks struggling with subprime losses, by seeking stakes in big real estate assets on the [...]

Real Estate Settlement Reached To Stop Blocking Listings

Good news to online real estate brokers and buyers. The Justice Department gave a boost Tuesday to online real estate brokers (plug for a new free listing service I am starting) and potentially their clients by forcing new industry policies that give Internet-based agents access to home listings they were previously denied.

People want to [...]

A little Rest And Relaxation On The Water

We all must get away sometime!

Its been a few days and the beach pulled me in! My apologies for not posting recently

“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can [...]

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I do

According to a great article called Turn $451 a month into a million bucks from Kiplinger.com with a little saving we could all have a nice nest egg well in 35 years. Now some of these may not apply to New Yorkers, but if we dream of a retirement home someday you may wan to investigate and start saving.
 
Excerpt [...]

Manhattan’s “Weekend Recap” In Real Estate 5-19-08

New lives for old factories, power plants and warehouses. There are many rebirths in this city, from the Cocoa Exchange, Gift Buildings and Famous Hotels. Manhattan, is known for making the best of any situation, and these run down facilities are fetching a nice profit for investors and posh pads for purchasers .
Highline Hopes…

Phase one or part one of the new [...]

Open Houses Sunday

Sunday Open Houses From Brian James For May 18, 2008:
Under a Milion Club: “Blank Canvas Prime Location”
159 Madison Avenue #6F 130pm-330pm, Sunday 18th
Asking $425,000.00
“Incredible Value!”
Alcove studion approximately 475sq. feet. Can eaily be turned into Jr.4 Two large windows bring in the light and add to the lofty feeling with a ceiling of almost 10.5′. Open [...]