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Internet Inquiries To Purchase Coop Apartments Show Significant Increase

If internet inquiries about listings can be viewed as a leading market indicator then possibly, just possibly we may have the makings of a decent spring market. I may be jinxing it but in the past couple of weeks requests for information have poured in. Has it amounted to anything concrete yet? No, but in [...]

Fair Housing and Coop Board Applications: Still A Work In Progress

It never ceases to amaze me how Coop Boards and Managing Agents still violate the Fair Housing Act. I just received a Board Application that asked: Marital Status, Age, Place of Birth, Relationship of Residents and Sex. I blame the managing agents for this; they should educate the volunteer boards, and since the agents are [...]

New York Times: The Tinseling of the Lobby

What a great story, and regrettably very true. There is nothing that raises more ugly passions than the holiday season. This is a time of year when we should all come together regardless of our religious persuasion, but instead we start to measure the “amount” or “adequacy” of a particular object to see if it [...]

Only 25 Days Left For the $8,000 First Time Buyers Tax Credit!!

If you have been following the first time home buyer tax credit you know by now that in order to get it you have to be in contract by April 30 and close by the end of June. The good news is that there is still plenty of time! The even BETTER news is that [...]

Bronxville Terrace in The Snow – A Pictorial

I have always loved the snow: loved to look at it, loved to play in it – and like most, hated to shovel it! One of the advantages of living in a Coop is that we have a great building staff to take care of that chore. Now that I am not a spring chicken [...]

New Listing! Comfy & Affordable Sunny One Bedroom Low Low Maint, $8K Tax Credit for 1st Time Buyers, What Are You Waiting For!!! $112,500!

Walk to All! Metro North, Starbucks, CVS, Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, Cleaners, Bank, Salon, Pizza, Liquors, Doctors, Bronxville Village, Cross County Shopping, Public Park, etc! Only $112,500!!

Elegant Park Lane – Located in the Chester Hill Park Section of Mount Vernon. Top Floor Two Bedroom, Two Bath, Formal Dining Room, Log Burning Fireplace, 1,300 Square Feet, only $225,000! Also Available at $1,850/month.

On offer is this private top floor bright and sunny apartment in the most sought after complex in Mount Vernon. Historic Park Lane, where Dick Clark grew up and Arthur Murray danced, features this wonderful top floor home filled with wonderful space and light just waiting for a new owner.  I will be happy to [...]

Lots of New Listings!

Wow, the market is getting busy! The spring has arrived! True to form new listings are pouring onto the market, which I think can be viewed as a good thing. Give buyers a choice. As long as they are properly priced, buyers will purchase them, especially with the $8,000 tax credit until April 30th. The [...]

Westchester Putnam Multiple Listing Service Year End 2009 Market Report

        2009 was dismal, but we have turned the corner. That is the crux of the market report issued this week by the Westchester Putnam MLS. I generally let this document speak for itself because I frankly am not in love with it. Not because anything in it is wrong – not [...]

THE DAILY RAMBLE: First Con Ed, Now The City Of Yonkers Rips Down Trees With No Notice To Residents!

Can you believe it? With all the recent bad press about how Con Ed has been ripping down trees in WestchesterCounty under the guise of protecting their power lines, you would think that the City of Yonkers would smarten up? Well they have not. At least the powers that be at the Yonkers Fire Department [...]