Test your knowledge of the housing market, and identify which of the following can be a deal breaker for many family buyers with young children: A. Not enough Bedrooms on one level. B. Dated Kitchen and/or Bathrooms. C. Busy street. D. No view of the backyard from the Kitchen. Answer: all of the above. While choices A, B,...Read More
For many “space-challenged” families, even the thought seems inconceivable: a home with too many bedrooms! How can such a thing be possible? Easy. Exhibit A: a two-story home with a 900 square foot foundation — and four (or five!) bedrooms on the upper level. When you see such a configuration, you know that: 1) the bedrooms...Read More
The Downside of Customization That’s what I can imagine some unlucky Manhattan rental broker hearing from their client as they show units at 8 Spruce Street (formerly known as “Beekman Tower,” Manhattan’s tallest residential building — and the subject of an August City Lakes post, “Frank Gehry and the Bilbao Effect”). How come? While the...Read More
The Second Most Popular Question in Real Estate What’s the second most popular question in real estate? (the first being, “what’s my home worth?”) “How long will it take to sell my home?” Unless the Realtor is going to buy it, the honest answer is, “I don’t know.” However, it is possible to give the...Read More
“Pin-drop” Front Entries If you’re a busy Realtor, it’s not unusual to get to large, group meetings a couple minutes late (like the weekly Edina Realty Exceptional Properties meeting). Which is fine — unless the meeting is being hosted in a home where the entry and front door seem to open directly into the Kitchen,...Read More
Ordering Off the Real Estate “Menu”No, it’s not what waiters in restaurants are hearing. It’s what would-be Sellers are telling their Realtors. “They,” of course, are the owners of a neighboring home that sold a year — or three — earlier. Aside from selling in similar market conditions, if you “want what they got,” you...Read More
