Deeds and Leases

While the consensus is that the number of sales will increase in 2011, pricing will remain soft. The recent sharp uptick in interest rates may provoke a surge in market sales after the new year as buyers seek to lock in the still historically low rates. Many buyers who are currently approved will have to [...]

Given all the innuendo and rumours about the real estate market that are postulated today, I believe ”the facts” are the only appropriate way of discussing what is really going on. Anything else can be misleading. There is a good deal of fear out there, and the so-called experts sometimes make a difficult situation worse.  Now by [...]

Jonathan Miller, the President of Miller Samuel and the Premier Residential Appraiser in NYC has just published the following article that is well worth reading. I have discussed the changes in appraisal rules and operating procedures in deedsandleases.com in the past, and I felt then, and do now, that there has been an over-correction in [...]

CLICK: [Vortex] Straight from MacCrate: When Will Real Estate Prices Stabilize in the New York Metropolitan Area? Posted using ShareThis Jim McCrate, MAI CRE is one of the foremost commercial real estate appraisers in NY, and is a Counselor of Real Estate, the premier designation in the industry. While I worked worked with many of the [...]

Sounds like blasphemy doesn’t it? A broker saying no to a listing? What agent in their right mind would turn down an opportunity to write up a few pieces of paperwork, snap some pictures, and sit back and let the money roll in? Well I was never accused of being in the ‘right mind” and I [...]