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      The economy seems to coming down with a nasty cold.  The symptoms are more that a running nose and a fever, they are a housing market with decreasing values and rising unemployment.  The establishment is treating the wrong symptoms, trying to boost spending by giving a small stipend back to...
02/05/2008
       The date October 19, 1987, Black Monday, never to be forgotten by investors in the stock market.  A few months before, a client of mine told me that he converted all his stocks to cash.  I wondered why?  Time proved him right.  In 2005 an LA Times reporter and his wife sold their home.  He...
02/05/2008
      Today's article in the Westchester Business Journal addresses the price of real estate in the Hudson Valley after the sub-prime mortgage meltdown.  The Westchester and Putnam housing markets are performing better than most around the country. Yet it makes the point that we are not immune to...
02/04/2008
       I thought for sure Westchester County, New York, would be on this list, as an overpriced suburb.  While the price of homes in the county would still be considered very expensive it didn't make the list.   Westchester's residents take heart, Manhattan did not make the list either.  So, mayb...
02/02/2008
       Westchester County's Chappaqua , New York, has overcome a resistance to developing condos before, the year was 1975.  Mitcfhell Berenson, a developer, proposed a  multi-family town house condominium and won  a decision from the state's highest court.  They found the town zoning laws, "Must...
02/01/2008
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       The Spring market is just about here.  Interest rates are falling.  Deciding to purchase a home is a big step.  First time buyers can be the beneficiaries of falling prices.  Buyers should find out all they can about the area they want to live-in, ask their agent to do a Comparative Market...
01/30/2008
       There is a boom in real estate it just does not happen to be on our continent.  It is in Bagdad, Irag.  Citizens looking to live in a safe city are finding too few homes so, now the demand is causing bidding wars.  The prices are rising.  Iraqi's  usually pay cash for their homes.  Is this...
01/29/2008
       Every evening I sit and listen to the cable news, local news and the conventional news channels, the doom and gloom of the housing market is always a favorite topic.  There definitely is a housing slow down in the Westchester County, New York market.  In the luxury market developers are no...
01/28/2008
                                                        If you want a piece of the American home ownership dream now may just be the time to buy.  If you have a down-payment, the combination of lower home prices and lower interest rates, than this is a good time to purchase yout dream.  I believe...
01/27/2008
                                                               The Village of Mount Kisco's breaks ground for  their new state of the art library.  An 8 million dollar facility, where the old library was,  housing 18,000 sq feet, exactly double in size. The facility will include a silent reading ...
01/23/2008
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