Yorktown Heights, NY Real Estate News

If you are Selling or Buying Your Vacant LandLand Easements, How do they effect your purchase or sale? When you are looking to buy a parcel of Vacant Land, you'll want to make sure where the utility (power, water, septic or sewer and telephone) easements are if any. You'll also want to make sure ... 10/13/2014

My friend Dave Goldberg, the plumbing and heating supplier in upper Westchester, now retired from his own business, called me last week to tell me that he had joined the board of Freedom Gardens in Mohegan Lake in upper Westchester and asked me if I might visit it. He didn’t have to tell me what ... 09/21/2014

Would you believe that 52 percent of American companies operate as home businesses, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration? My wife and I have occupied that category almost from the day we were married and perhaps, at least on my side of the family, it was ordained. I was fascinated ... 09/17/2014

When I was 10 years old, I had a summer experience of great wonderment. My father had taken a short term work assignment in Lynchburg, Virginia, and my mother, he and I took up temporary residence in an in-town ante-bellum mansion that had come upon hard times after the Civil War and was split up... 09/04/2014

As a young child I was overly impressed by the movie “Gone with the Wind,” especially Scarlett O’Hara’s line, “I’ll think about it tomorrow,” and whenever there’s been an unpleasant task at hand, I’ve frequently pulled it from my bag of tricks to accommodate procrastination. Now as I tread ginger... 08/27/2014

  SO FAR YOU HAVE REFRAINED FROM LISTING YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME! SINCE THE YEAR 2000 I HAVE PARTICIPATED IN OVER 100 LAND DEALS! EITHER AS THE LISTING AGENT OR THE SELLING AGENT! THAT MAKES ME THE #1 AGENT IN LAND SALES SINCE THE YEAR 2000! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SELL YOU PROPERTY, YOU SHOULD LIST I... 08/19/2014

When I first met Kim and Matt Cozza and their teenage daughter Sydney, I knew I would enjoy helping them find a home because they said they would consider an historic one and, as a realtor, I had developed a specialty in historic homes, having studied early American architecture at The College of... 08/17/2014

When the bundle of energy that is Hillary Sheperd bursts into a room, or in this case, into the sidewalk café where our networking meeting was taking place, you can’t help but take notice. I overheard her apologize to friends for her tardiness with snippets about “traffic” and just having had to ... 08/11/2014

When I announced in the office sales meeting at William Raveis that The Home Guru Team was just about to list a great “mother/daughter” house, my office manager Doris Ellias gently advised me that “now it’s suggested that we refer to them as ‘extended family’ houses.” Oh, no, I exclaimed mentally... 08/10/2014

It was more than 40 years ago, but I still feel the sting of being swindled by an unscrupulous home improvement contractor. As a young couple, my wife and I had just managed to qualify for a mortgage and cobble together enough money for a down payment to buy our large historic house that at that ... 08/09/2014

The historic house was one of the loveliest I had ever listed, but it was on the market for over a year and, while it had many showings, it hadn’t yet gotten a single offer. When it came time to relist it, the owners and I considered what else we might do to make the home more attractive to a bro... 08/07/2014

For more than a dozen years, The Home Guru has been observing and writing about the housing market and home building design, repair and maintenance. I have focused on hundreds of widely varied subjects, sometimes into areas quite unexpected. Who would expect a home columnist to write a treatise o... 08/06/2014

I Am Who Should You List Your Vacant Land With!   Listing your VACANT LAND for SALE, it can be very trying. Most agents in the business have never listed or even sold a piece of VACANT LAND. You are going to want and AGENT with EXPERIENCE in BOTH LISTING and SELLING LAND.The first way to do this ... 07/26/2014

Vacant land sales will be making a come back in 2014! In 2013 from Jan 1st to Dec 31st the were only a total of 107 land sales in Westchester and Putnam County. So far in 2014 there have been 51 sales already but as of today there are already 52 more in contract. I am hoping that the total number... 07/22/2014

The Record Continues-- Number 1 From Jan 1st 2000--Dec 31st 2013  Based on MLS Records Tom Santore has done more vacant land deals than anyone else from Jan 1st 2000--Dec 31st 2013! If you are trying to sell your Vacant Land and are not having any success, You should call the agent that has consi... 07/22/2014

The conversation started on the 4th of July weekend about a beautifully written essay in The New York Times by a man who had found Leaves of Grass to be a beacon of hope when growing up in the South as an Evangelical harboring the secret that he was gay. My wife somehow had missed the homoerotic ... 07/13/2014

When she visited at Christmas, my daughter Emma who is very sensitive to such things alerted me that there must be mold in our living room. She could sense it as soon as she walked into the room, which very honestly is used only for special occasions nowadays. I looked into all the corners of the... 06/29/2014

When you are working on a job around the house or in the garden, are you like me in that your mind wanders to dreams of worlds to be conquered or occasional regrets about paths not taken? I had never thought about what might occupy the minds of others as they tackle home projects until I met Stev... 06/26/2014

There’s some lucky stiff spending eternal life on top of Marilyn Monroe thanks to either his vanity or warped humor, or his wife’s open-mindedness or wealth, or whatever circumstances led to the shelling out of $4.6 million at auction on eBay in 2011 to buy the crypt just above the blonde bombshe... 06/16/2014

When I was a bachelor living in Manhattan, I had an acquaintance who would occasionally visit friends living in “the country” over the summer weekends. Maybe I was a little jealous about not knowing anybody outside the reaches of the steamy city because I found myself having little patience when ... 06/09/2014