Westchester Real Estate

Get Your Westchester Home Inspected Before Listing it For Sale

ADDED May 21, 2012 0 COMMENTS

One of the more stressful parts of the home sale process is the part where the seller and their agent “sweat it out” while the buyer completes their home inspection prior to contract signing. Often, this yields to a the buyer’s revisiting their “meeting of the minds” price and ask for a reduction in price…Read More »

Regarding Agents Returning From Hibernation

ADDED May 14, 2012 1 COMMENTS

We recieved two voicemails from an agent who had called to show one of our listings. They were so over the top nasty that my Queens-native wife and I looked at each other stunned that a licensee would leave a permanent record of such hostility. I recorded the messages and sent them as an attachment…Read More »

April 2012 Westchester Real Estate Market: Better News

ADDED May 7, 2012 0 COMMENTS

If I were not seeing it with my own eyes I would not believe it. But after witnessing bidding wars on 2 of my own listings, one in Ossining and another in West Harrison, I have to say that the Spring real estate market in Westchester is stronger than I expected. It might be the…Read More »

60 Seconds of My Life I’ll Never Get Back Again

ADDED May 3, 2012 1 COMMENTS

<phone rings> ME: J. Philip Real Estate, this is Phil, how may I help you? Telemarketer: Is this Mr. Philips? ME: *sigh* Yes, this is Phil. Telemarketer: Hi, This is <Whatever> with <Company>, and I am calling to see if you’d like to do business with the 20,000 people who shop at the Briarcliff Manor…Read More »

Buyer Mistake: Not Being Pre Approved

ADDED April 30, 2012 2 COMMENTS

I have wagged my finger at both buyers and sellers on the current real estate market, and today it is once again the buyers’ turn. While we are indeed far from an overall recovery, all real estate is local and in Westchester we are in a busy spring sales cycle. In more than a few…Read More »

Cold Spring & Philipstown Market Report 1st Quarter 2012

ADDED April 24, 2012 0 COMMENTS

The first quarter of 2012 for the Cold Spring and Philipstown area indicated a very slow quarter compared to the same period last year, according to the sales data from the Empire Access MLS. In the first quarter of 2012, there were 3 sales in Philipstown and Cold Spring at a median sale price of…Read More »

Extend the The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act

ADDED April 23, 2012 0 COMMENTS

In the fall of 2007, after the sub prime crisis hit but long before the real decline hit the country in the gut, the Bush administration signed a bill into law that allowed regular borrowers to avoid a massive tax bill for the forgiven debt resulting from a short sale. Prior to that time, people…Read More »

Êtes-vous prêts? Partez!

ADDED April 19, 2012 4 COMMENTS

25 years ago I was a proud member of the Villanova University rowing program. You might know it as Crew, and we reviled the redundancy of those who would say “Crew Team.” I was a coxswain all 4 years, and my job was not to row, but to be the one crew member who sat in the…Read More »

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