The NYC Real Estate Market is Open … Now What?
With Rental Season 2020 officially underway, it’s muddy how the market it going to shake out. Are prices going up or down? Will there be a flood of evictions and vacancies once the eviction ban is lifted? Will owners start lowering their prices or continue to just...New York State Guidelines for Showing Apartments During Phase 2
Residential In-Person Property Showings and Related Activities Responsible Parties may conduct in-person property showings while adhering to social distancing and required PPE safety guidelines. The following measures must be followed: o Showings and open houses will...
Real Estate Agents Sales Goals 2020
As we prepare for the City to enter Phase 2 – hopefully in about two weeks – agents are setting sales goals. While having an ambitious goal is great, articulating it (e.g. I want to double what I did last year) and having a plan on how to get there is better. If...NYC Real Estate: An Historical Perspective on the Riots
Deep Breath! With riots exploding over the weekend and of course COVID, the future of NYC seems more uncertain than it has in decades. Maybe it’s because I’m a lifelong real estate junkie, but I see real estate at the heart of the city’s controversy, placing a close...
Is 2020 the New 1993 for NYC Real Estate?
As states accelerate their openings, the amount of conflicting information about coronavirus numbers is remarkable and disturbing. As you’ve probably heard a million times by now, the susceptibility to COVID apparently splits along party lines. Only history will...
Are You Ready to Ooopen!!!! – NYC the Gold Standard of a Post COVID World?
This week brought more relatively good news for NYC and NYC real estate (depending on what side of the table you’re sitting on). MeriLeads also had another great SCTN call and is launching our Free Rental Lead Referral Program (see details below). First, current...
COVID Real Estate by The Numbers
Are You Ready? Let’s Talk About Post-Covid Real Estate! Hello Real Estate People! Are you getting ready for the market to launch? It’s been reported that NY may start opening up slowly in June. If it does, there’s a good chance that the real estate market will...
Landlords – Laws You Need to Follow in 2020
Now that the 2020 rental season is upon us, NYC landlords are facing uncertainties in pricing and demand that they haven’t faced since the 1970’s. Whether COVID-19 changes the rental market remains to be seen. What is clear, however, is that the rules of the road as...
Real Estate Post COVID-19 # 5
I’ll remember last week as the week that the novelty of staying at home began to wear off. Despite Trump’s claims that we’re soon going back to “normal”, the Tri-state Area is not opening any time soon. Hopefully when NYC finally re-opens, it won’t be a false start....
Get Ready for the New Normal #4
Last week was quite a week! Apparently, NYC is over the hump and the “curve” is flattening. However, as Winston Churchill said, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Widespread conversations...Get Ready for the New Normal #3
Get Ready for the New Normal #2
We’re all at home dealing with COIV-19 and social distancing in our own way. For me, in addition to making sure my 13-year-old twin boys do their homework and don’t destroy the house during “Coronacation”, I’ve been reading everything I can about the virus and...
Agents times they are changing. Embrace it!
Friday March 13th was DoomsDay until yesterday for NYC rental real estate agents. Now, the “Ban” on rental real estate agents’ broker’s fees reportedly won’t kick in until June 2020 at the earliest. While the Ban won’t actually outlaw rental broker’s commissions, it...
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