Rockland County Real Estate Perspective

Organizers bill Nyack's Halloween Parade as the biggest Halloween parade in the northeast outside of New York City's parade in Greenwich Village. Certainly, throngs of people line the street, many in costumes themselves, to watch a collection of ghosties, goblins, witches and other strange charac...

This week's stats are pretty consistent with last week's. Of note for sellers, real estate in Rockland County is selling every day. You may be feeling that having your house on the market during the holiday season is a bit of a waste of time. Not true! Buyers are still out there during the holida...

This week, we see a bit of a decrease in the number of properties on the market in Rockland County, NY. Is this the start of the holiday market, which traditionally shows a slow down? Is the decrease related to the economy? Or maybe the presidential election? Or perhaps post-Halloween exhaustion?...

In past posts, I've written about how now is a great time to buy real estate in Rockland County, despite the negative headlines about the economy and the housing market. Real estate is a local marketplace. To understand the market where you live, you need to analyze local market data. I thought i...

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Not much change in activity level when looking at the statistics in the MLS. However, anecdotal evidence from agents I've been talking to in different offices suggests that there is an increase in the number of showings listings are getting. Buyers are looking! If you would like more specific inf...

A synopsis of real estate listed, real estate sold, and real estate rejected by the market for the week ending 10/18/2008. Rockland County, NY Real Estate Market Snapshot Week Ending 10/18                 Single Family   Condo   Multi Family New Listings 35   New Listings 15   New Listings 3 Unde...

West Nyack, NY's best kept secret has to be the miniature golf course, maintained by the Town of Clarkstown. My family and I have lived in the neighborhood for five years, and although the course is about a half a mile from our house, we just discovered it this summer. I didn't have high expectat...

September was a tough month for the real estate market in Rockland County, NY. The #1 question people keep asking me: "Is this the bottom of the market?" I can't answer that question, but I do know this: Life doesn't stop for a slow economy. People always need to buy and sell houses for all kids ...

My grandmother came of age in Elmira, New York during the Great Depression. Frugality was a cornerstone of her life; a habit that remained after the scarcity of those tough years was long behind them. As a child in the 1970s, I thought my grandmother's economies were hilarious. Why would she wash...