Category Archives: Dirty Real Estate Tricks

Buildings Department to the Rescue: What Took So Long?

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Adam Lisberg of The Daily News wrote today that the Buildings Dept. vows crackdown on unscrupulous builders.  Sounds like an excellent idea to me as it seems like everyone and their brother thinks they are an investor/developer these days.  I … Continue reading →

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TrueGotham TV Explores Square Feet: Episode Four

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Last week on TGTV we discussed the various methods by which square footage can be measure with an emphasis on the liberties that developers sometimes take in adding common areas, etc to an apartment’s stated square footage.  Don Meade also … Continue reading →

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TrueGotham TV Explores Square Feet: Episode Three

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Doug Heddings

In last week’s episode of TGTV, our panel of experts shared the results of measuring a property and we suprisingly saw that each of them came up with numbers relatively close to one another.   It appears that each of them … Continue reading →

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Pricing Property: OpenHouseNYC and NY Mag’s Triple Assessment

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Here we go again with another New York Magazine Triple Assessment from OpenHouseNYC.  I like to watch these segments in their entirety and venture my own guess before the actaul list price is disclosed.  My guess was $599,000.00.  Now you … Continue reading →

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TrueGotham TV Explores Square Feet: Episode Two

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Doug Heddings

In last week’s pilot episode of TrueGotham TV we met our expert panel,  Jonathan Miller from RadarLogic and Miller Samuel Appraisers, Yungie Hahn from H2 Architects, and Don Meade from Quality Floor Plans, and saw exactly how they go about measuring … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Real Estate #62

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Something definitely happened over the weekend for my team and our business as the phones are ringing off the hook, offers are being negotiated, and one buyer is unfortunately losing a bidding war.  Anecdotal of course but I’m incredibly busy … Continue reading →

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Poster Boy for The Housing Bubble: Casey Serin Surfaces

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Couldn’t resist sharing this exclusive Casey Serin update from my favorite bubble blog HousingPANIC.  For those who already forgot about this guy, he’s the one who started iamfacingforeclosure.com and stupidly blogged about all of his lies and deception to the … Continue reading →

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TrueGotham TV Explores Square Feet: Why The Mystery?

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Doug Heddings

If you’re a regular reader of TrueGotham, there’s no secret to how I feel about discrepancies in square footage and the lack of standardization of measurement (or is there?) in the marketplace.  Buyer frustration permeates the market as prospective purchasers continue to … Continue reading →

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Desperation Pricing By New Agents

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Making sense of the state of the market in Manhattan has proven to be a daily challenge.  Talk of Wall Street layoffs and meager bonuses, the current credit crunch, and Fed attempts to buoy the economy are just some of … Continue reading →

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More Support for “Realistic” Pricing

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Friday’s post has generated a bit of buzz regarding seller’s expectations in softer real estate markets.  Coincidentally, Austan Goolsbee wrote A Reality Check for Home Sellers for The New York Times this weekend.  So why do seller’s often choose to ignore … Continue reading →

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