The Summer is just about half over and I feel tremendously unexcited by the state of the Babylon real estate market. I still check MLS every day for new listings, but what I see is pretty disheartening. Homes new to the market are being priced at levels that make me question the judgment of the [...]
When I go to open houses or otherwise talk with Realtors about the housing market, one of their favorite arguments on the “buy now” front is that mortgage rates are still very low and I should think about buying before they go up. It’s a fairly common argument that gets thrown around on the real [...]
Night life on Long Island
This picture is from Newsday’s third annual photo contest. Babylon’s own Ashley Nicole Fava, 20, captures normally bustling Deer Park Avenue late at night when everything is quiet and stilll. Click on the pic to vote in the contest.
From Bloomberg
Second-quarter sales volume dropped 29 percent and the median price fell 11 percent to $735,000 from a year earlier in the resort communities on the East End of New York’s Long Island, Suffolk Research Service Inc. said in a report today.
Housing prices for high end properties, especially in Manhattan and in the resort areas [...]
This was another pleasant summer afternoon spent exploring houses in Babylon Village. We weren’t the only ones out and about. At each of the houses we went to we ran in to at least one other couple there looking for their dream house.
Time begins to draw short for me and my wife. Our baby is [...]
I was thinking about this last night and decided to see if Comedy Central had the video in their online archives. There was a bit of a stir from BNL’s management after this piece aired. The Daily Show people never got approval to shoot on site. Someone at the show knew someone at the let [...]
Newsday does a little article about Southard’s Pond here in Babylon.
It is the 100 acres of woodland maintained between Park Avenue and Sunrise Highway in the middle of Babylon Village: Southards Pond Park.
It is a segment of the greenbelt — one-eighth of a mile long and one-quarter mile wide — extending from Argyle Park in [...]