The Pesce & Lanzillotta Team Blog

Midterm elections often mean hotly contested races for seats in the House and Senate and polarizing issues that sweep the country. Though this year’s midterm elections were no exception to the norm, they did offer one unusual result – mortgage interest rates have corrected a bit since November 8t...

Every week it seems, there’s a headline about rising interest rates or new pressures on prospective home buyers. The housing market is changing, and not just on Long Island. Around the country, buyers are facing affordability challenges even as they hurry to lock in a loan before interest rates r...

Are you thinking of selling your Long Island home and worried you missed out on the summer market? Despite rising interest rates, we are still seeing a strong buyer presence on Long Island. Multiple offer scenarios may be less common, but buyers are seeing the opportunity of purchasing a home now...

In recent weeks, the Federal Reserve raised the standard interest rate seventy-five basis points or 0.75%. Headline news in most economic and business journals, the immediate impact on the housing market was less notable. Though with the Fed projected to raise rates again in September, we are wat...

With summer right around the corner and another school year drawing to a close, you might be thinking about putting your Long Island home up for sale. However, after years of increasing home prices, how do you know if now is the right time to sell? Should you wait another year and then move? Whil...

After another record-breaking year in Long Island real estate, both prospective home buyers and sellers are preparing for a hot spring market. While spring is traditionally considered one of the best times to make a move, there are a few factors that will propel the 2022 market to new heights. If...

While you may be thinking of listing your home after the first of the year or even in the spring, the holiday season can also be a great time to sell. After a year like 2021, many Long Island home sellers are taking advantage of unprecedented buyer demand to secure a great offer for their home no...

If you’ve been to the grocery store lately or tried to book a hotel, you’ve seen the effects of inflation in today’s economy. Supply chain issues and labor shortages in multiple industries have contributed to price growth almost across the board. In the last year, home prices in the US rose almos...

With surging COVID-19 cases and the Delta variant increasingly in the news, there’s some concern in the Long Island community that we might return to the early days of the pandemic. Mask mandates, schools closing, and certain businesses deemed non-essential. The real estate industry has proven it...

As Long Island prepares for the traditional second wave of real estate that happens in late summer and early fall, there’s good news for prospective home buyers this month: inventory is finally increasing. What’s behind this change and, perhaps most importantly, will it last? Here’s what we think...