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This week on the Riviera Maya my wife and I toured several terrific beach houses available for rent on SoIiman Bay. At one of them, the owner/manager devoted substantial time to pointing out unique features: the… More
This week on the Riviera Maya my wife and I toured several terrific beach houses available for rent on SoIiman Bay. At one of them, the owner/manager devoted substantial time to pointing out unique features: the… More
Every January stories abound which review the preceding year in real estate. With the press reporting that during the fourth quarter of 2015 the average sales price of apartments hit $1,950,000 and the median price hit $1,150,000,… More
The demographics at our Warburg offices form a microcosm of the world in New York. African-American, Armenian, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Filipino, Chinese. Irish, Italian, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. High WASPS, Poles, and Russians. Beyond our interest… More
Who survives, and how, in the business world of the 21st century? Globalization has made the world smaller but corporations bigger. People go everywhere, do business everywhere, take their businesses everywhere. Real estate firms travel to Hong… More
The apartment in which I grew up, which encompassed a full floor in a venerable Park Avenue co-op, had three master bathrooms. Each of them opened into two bedrooms, but none had outside access. For most… More
My colleague David Rodriguez* once described the stock market as behaving like a group of 4th grade girls. The plunges of the past week certainly seem to corroborate that assessment. The market, in this as in so many… More
For New York City real estate, pricing parameters change constantly. What we think we know in July is different in August, and what we think we know in August changes again in September. This is not… More
I just returned home from our Warburg Realty retreat: two full days in northwestern Connecticut with our terrifically smart and dynamic new team. There has been a lot of change here at Warburg in the past… More
In the current market, do you sell first? Buy first? Or sell and buy at the same time? A lot depends on your financial situation and stamina for risk, disruption and chance. If you sell first,… More
Walking to show two apartments in the 400 block of East 52nd (not in the actual building Greta Garbo lived in for decades, but the same block), I was struck by the nomenclature “Turtle Bay” for the… More