April 18, 2009 – 12:06 pm
Some nice spring weather and a bunch more houses on MLS. What could be better? There are 36 open houses listed in Babylon as of this writing, although not all of them are for this weekend. I’m looking to visit Lee and Washington this Saturday. We’ll see how that goes.
I have to work on Sunday, [...]
January 1, 2009 – 1:33 am
Oh the weather outside is frightful, and the real estate market isn’t any better.
Homes in Babylon
Total: 72
Babylon School District: 45
BSD and Under 600K: 26
Condos/Coops:10
The new year is upon us and sometimes it feels like the Red Queen’s race in the real estate market. The faster we go, the further behind we get.
Pickings [...]
October 27, 2008 – 5:41 pm
We’re entering the scary and spooky season. No, it’s not Halloween or ghosts that trouble us, but the looming recession and the specter unsold homes. If you’re sitting on a house that you’d like to sell right now, you’ve got to be pretty spooked.
Things have been a little quiet here at HIB. A new [...]
October 14, 2008 – 10:59 pm
Hello HIB readers. Wow, a whole two weeks without an update. Did you guys miss me?
For those of you who are interested, little Aurora Jane is officially the light of my life. Mom and baby are doing well as we all adjust to our new circumstances. I’m back to blogging, so let’s get caught up.
After [...]
September 26, 2008 – 11:24 pm
I’ve been pretty unrestrained in my criticisms for MLSLI.Com in the past. One of the things I’ve constantly harped on is the design, which looks pretty much like it used to back in 1997 when I worked for the now defunct Long Island Savings Bank and used to do updates and tweaks on it.
About two [...]
September 13, 2008 – 11:33 pm
Here are the rest of the houses sold in Babylon in August 2008. This a followup to this post on home sales in the first half of August. There’s not a lot here that we’d have been particularly interested in. This makes a total of 11 homes sold in August. With 95 homes in MLS [...]
September 11, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Who is freaking out here? Well, first of all, there’s me. The baby is due any day now and we’re still in out two bedroom apartment.
On top of that, with foreclosures on the upswing, Fannie and Freddie in the dumper and a major recession looming, the thought that I might actually buy a house [...]
August 16, 2008 – 7:52 am
The number of homes on MLSLI for Babylon seems to be dropping. I don’t see the sales coming up on the Sold Homes list, but that thing works intermittently anyway.
Homes in Babylon
Total: 97
Babylon School District: 62
BSD and Under 600K: 35
Condos/Coops:12
97 Homes total is a low water mark for sure. I don’t remember [...]