January 3, 2009 – 2:16 pm
In an effort to get some more content for this site and to expand its perspective a bit, I’d like to get stories or guest posts from some of my readers. Come on people. I know you’re out there. I have the Google Analytics data to prove it.
I’m interested in talking with people who have [...]
January 3, 2009 – 2:02 pm
James Bednar weighs in:
Yes, there are opportunities in the current market, but they are still pretty rare and require a buyer to be very flexible. If I had to put a figure on it, I’d say that roughly 1 out of every 50 listed homes represented a better value than what we’ve seen in the [...]
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 [...]
December 21, 2008 – 2:02 am
More excellent advice from James Bednar over at New Jersey Real Estate Report:
For those set on buying? The same four or five things, every time.
Just like you will not pay yesterday’s price today, a seller will not sell for tomorrows price today. If you want a deal, you’ll find it accompanying distress.
You’ll never find a [...]
December 20, 2008 – 11:36 pm
I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis. I loved both Moneyball and The Blind Side, two great books about the economics and strategic evolution of sports. I just finished his first book, Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. Lewis spent a few years in the mid-eighties working for Soloman Brothers as a [...]
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 [...]
September 29, 2008 – 5:26 pm
The Summer is now officially over. Mostly it’s still hot and muggy, but there have been a few cold, wet, rainy days and a slight chill of Autumn is in the air. With the Summer goes the Summer selling season and consequently the number of homes on MLS is slowly dropping. A couple of homes [...]
September 28, 2008 – 12:29 pm
39 Totten Pl
MLS# 2104849 - Zillow Page
Ask $429,900
3 bedrooms - 1.5 bath
$7,069 - Village Taxes: $474.60
This is my very first post on the blog and possibly my last for a while, I’m due to have our little girl any day now. Anyway, this is my report on 39 Totten Place. [...]
September 16, 2008 – 7:33 am
We saw these open houses three weeks ago. These may be our last open houses for a while. I’m working this weekend coming up and the Tuesday after that is my wife’s official due date. Time flies when you’re having fun.
There were 13 open houses Sunday, 8/24/2008 in Babylon Village. I often work on Sunday, [...]
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 [...]