The Art of Letting Go
The Warburg management team (we have grown to 14 people from the nine I remember meeting with a decade ago) met in Beacon, NY last week for a two day strategic retreat. In addition to spending… More
The Warburg management team (we have grown to 14 people from the nine I remember meeting with a decade ago) met in Beacon, NY last week for a two day strategic retreat. In addition to spending… More
Nothing provides greater opportunity for contemplation than a week outside the office. While working in my garden in Connecticut this past week, I thought a lot about being a business owner. As many of you know,… More
Views abound in Boulder, Colorado, where we are spending the Memorial Day week-end with our son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Nestled as the town is at the foothills of the Rockies, with its ultra clear dry air,… More
According to RealtyTrac, during the last nine months 80% of Manhattan apartments were purchased without financing. There is no question that cash is king here. However I believe that this percentage is inaccurately high and does… More
This week-end, I attended the 70th birthday of a beloved cousin who lives in Lyme, New Hampshire. She and her four siblings are like a second family for me, and although they grew up in New… More
As we move into May, the enormous demand for New York properties has not abated. Prospective buyers queue up outside Park Slope floor-through apartments, and two bedroom apartments on the Upper West Side create the same… More
Ten years ago, New York was not a staging town. As agents, we would tell a seller when something egregious needed to be fixed: leak damage, rotting curtains, badly stained carpeting. And we would advise the… More
Today it really feels like spring. Canada geese are again nesting on the abandoned beaver lodge in our pond, while purple martins (flash of blue) and red-winged blackbirds (flash of red) swoop among the cattails. Basking… More
From the windows of my beautiful hotel room in Amsterdam, I can look out on the Prinzngracht Canal and the wonderfully diverse set of townhouses across the water. Most of them are high and narrow (apparently… More
Our spirits rise with the thermometer. Real green shoots begin to pop in Central and Prospect Parks, along the Hudson, and in all the little pocket parks scattered around the city: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths. The peonies,… More