Tag Archives: Real Estate

Looking For Stories

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 [...]

A Good Time To Buy?

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 [...]

MLS Report - Goodbye 2008!

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 [...]

If You Want To Buy Now

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 [...]

Panic

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 [...]

MLS Report - Almost Halloween And Things Are Dead

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 [...]

MLS Report - Autumn Leaves Are Falling

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 [...]

A Visit To 39 Totten Place

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. [...]

Open House Sunday - Catch Up Edition

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, [...]

Sold Homes In Second Half of August

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 [...]