Category Archives: Tips & Advice

Quietest October in a Decade

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Doug Heddings

BUY NOW!!!  SELL NOW!!!  DO ANYTHING!!!  JUST DO IT…NOW!!!  (I’m kidding…kind of) I have always told my friends, family and client base that I would welcome a bit of a market correction here in the Manhattan real estate market.  The … Continue reading →

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TrueGotham TV Explores Square Feet: Episode Five

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Last week in our 4th episode of TGTV’s 5 part series on Square Feet we delved further into understanding why consumers can’t seem to get an accurate approximation of square footage for the properties that they are seeing. In our final … Continue reading →

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OpenHouseNYC: Safety in Your Home

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Doug Heddings

A double dip of OpenHouseNYC this week as I couldn’t resist sharing both of these incredibly useful episodes.  First is a piece that shares how to prepare an emergency plan for you and your family: As our host George Oliphant … Continue reading →

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Broker Incentives and More Square Foot Woes

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Broker/Buyer Incentives Surfacing? I’m sitting in my office right now listening to the live broadcast of our weekly business meeting.  I couldn’t resist blogging about something I just heard.  Avonova, one of the latest condo conversions on the Upper West … 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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Incredible Mortgage Offers in This Market?

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Doug Heddings

It’s no secret that the bottom continues to fall out of the housing market in most places across the country.  The credit crunch has directly effected both sub prime and prime borrowers as well as earnings, Wall Street bonuses, and … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Real Estate #64

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Doug Heddings

It’s up now at  r.e. revealed.  Do I see an underlying sub-theme of how agents should go after buyers? 

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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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