Category Archives: The Market

Sold Homes In Babylon Village – September 2009 – Part 3

Here’s the third part of the September 2009 sold homes report for Babylon Village. You can find parts one and two here and here.
10 W Pershing Ave

MLS# 2183498 – Zillow Page
Sold: $395,000 – 9/22/2009
Prior Sales: none
2 bedrooms – 1 bath – Cape
Taxes: $6,221 – Village Taxes: N/A

Sold Homes In Babylon Village – September 2009 – Part 2

Like I said in the last post, I’m chopping September’s sold home into three posts. For those of you who are interested, here’s part 1
This middle section of three homes doesn’t interest me much, so my commentary will be brief to nonexistent. As always, feel free to leave your impressions in the comment section.
15 Salt [...]

Village Park Condominums

There were some questions about these on some other posts, so I figured I’d share what I know, which isn’t much.
They’re making some nice progress. I see them every day on my way to work. Georgia Westcott is listing them and she’s got a website up with more info.
The site lists the prices as starting [...]

Closing Delayed

From my attorney this morning
I was just informed that the bank has pulled the file for re-review of the appraisal. Apparently the area in which the house is located is deemed a “declining market area” and the bank has asked the appraiser to provide 2 recent comparables to which he must conduct a field [...]

Sold Homes In Babylon Village – September 2009 – Part 1

September was another busy month with MLSLI listing 10 houses sold in our little village. Just like last month, I’m going to be splitting September up into three parts so that the houses don’t get lost in the shuffle.
I don’t have a lot to say about most of these. If you have some information, feel [...]

Going the extra mile

A good article in the NY Times about local Realtors going the extra mile for their listings.
A Little Alfredo With That Listing?
A mention of Winkler Real Estate
In the interest of keeping his clients happy, after a ranch house he listed was inspected, Ed Schmid, an agent with Winkler Real Estate in West Islip, [...]

Sold Homes In Babylon Village – August 2009 – Part 3

Here’s part 3 of the August 2009 sold homes report.
44 George St

MLS# 2162510 – Zillow Page
Sold: $395,000 – 8/26/2009
Prior Sales: none
3 bedrooms – 1 bath – Cape
Taxes: $7,326 – Village Taxes: $806

Sold Homes In Babylon Village – August 2009 – Part 2

Here’s part 2 for August of 2009. In case you missed it, part 1 can be found here. There are four houses in this post and there will be four more in part 3.
I’m not sure what this blog is going to become as things change for me and my family. But I expect [...]

Sold Homes In Babylon Village – August 2009 – Part 1

I know I promised this to you over the weekend, but things have been beyond busy here a HIB headquarters. Big things happening here and I’ll be posting about it in the weeks to come.
In the meantime, there were 13 homes sold in Babylon in August 2009 according to MLSLI.com. As I did last month, [...]

House Report – 48 Litchfield Ave

We saw this one just as it hit the market about a month ago. At that point the list was $389K. We were out with our Realtor Tom and that Saturday there was a lineup of people and their Realtors taking turns tromping through the house. There was a lot of buzz around this house [...]