MARKET UPDATE – MAY 2022
As the aphorism states, “All good things must come to an end“ and, because this is a real estate blog and not a movie review, you know that I’m not talking about the Netflix series, Ozark. Instead, it looks as though the salad days of the incendiary Spring Market of 2022 are finally coming to a close. […]
MARKET UPDATE – APRIL 2022
Back in 2015, were you one of the maniacal fans desperately trying to score tickets to see Hamilton? Perhaps you’ve tried hailing a cab in the middle of a rainstorm in Midtown Manhattan. Or, maybe in March of 2020 you found yourself standing in the middle of aisle 6B at Wegmans pondering the question, “How […]
MARKET UPDATE – MARCH 2022
I’ve begun my vigil. Sometime in the next week or two, I’ll celebrate the arrival of the first crocuses and snowdrops. Within days, I’ll see the flutter of the first Red Wing Blackbird of the season and I’ll hear the song of the first Eastern Phoebe. Occasionally, these markers of seasonal change arrive early. Sometimes […]
MARKET UPDATE – FEBRUARY 2022
Brutus and Cassius. Bonnie and Clyde. Boris and Natasha. Milli and Vanilli (hey, many would argue that their assault on our collective auditory faculties was no less nefarious a crime than those already listed). Today, Omicron and Boreas. Indeed, like previous co-conspirators both real and imagined, the latest COVID variant and the Greek god of […]
SOME QUICK AND INEXPENSIVE UPGRADES
When asked, most people will immediately assume that upgraded mechanical systems entice prospective buyers to write an offer on a home. The reality, however, is that it’s aesthetics that usually compel somebody to put pen to paper. Why? Most buyers assume that they’re buying a house that will keep them warm in January and dry in April. […]
NEWSLETTER – JANUARY 2022
The Roman god Janus was a deity known to have two faces- one looking in the past and the other looking into the future. It’s from him that we derive the name of the first month of the year, January. Given all that has been written and discussed about real estate in the year that […]
THE ART OF STAGING
One of my favorite real estate hacks has to do with the ability to magically grow the size of your house through the smoke-and-mirror use of staging. I frequently walk through a prospective seller’s home and come upon a basement playroom that was abandoned when the kids went off to college ten years ago. In older homes, […]
THE SPRING MARKET
Until recently, the spring real estate market began in Rochester on or about the first of March. Then, about ten or twelve years ago, two trends conspired to move the start date to February 21st which then became February 10th. February 10th became February 1st and, for the past five or six years, we’ve been […]
SEPTEMBER BLOG 2021
This past Friday night, my Keuka Lake Facebook feed was blowing up as excited residents posted about the spectacular meteor that, seemingly, soared over the lake before crashing somewhere in the region. One woman spoke of the bright intensity. Another described viewing it for an instant before the brilliance went dead. Although I didn’t enjoy the privilege […]
NEED HELP ORGANIZING?
The task of preparing your house for market can be a daunting one. Meeting and choosing the right agent, decluttering, depersonalizing, hiring contractors to make needed repairs- it’s an endless and exhausting list and you still haven’t yet had to deal with the stress of having buyers traipse through your house. Remarkably, we have somebody […]