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Similar to what M4L said, I know a couple about to list their home in Brooklyn Heights and, despite their disdain for bankers (present company excluded, of course) are actually hoping the bankers get big bonuses so they can start buying again.
“So when do sellers traditionally start listing their houses again after the xmas/new years break? I’m getting bored looking at the same few houses online.”
Me too, chicken. The other night my broker told me March listings begin the Spring selling season.
I think anybody who is able bodied and isn’t already carrying something should offer to help. When I was hobbling on my cane and couldn’t help, I saw several people rush past a woman struggling with a stroller, some even bumping into her and the stroller, not even bothering to apologize for bumping her and almost knocking her stroller kid and all down the steps. Of course I also believe that EVERY subway station should be handicap accessible.
wish they pay out ALL the bonuses now so real estate mkt can react to that quickly so we can see how mkt is post the bonus $$$ – ie what would sellers do when they see their ppties were not the one which got bought by the big bonuses.
M4L- of course, I am not surprised. I also witnessed on the D train last night when all the Asian folks got on the train at Canal Street, this little old Chinese lady bent over with a cain struggled to get a seat to then have the middle seat taken from a Chinese girl who was 15 – aren’t Chinese people taught to respect their elders??
anyway, despite me having surgery and really needed the seat, I of course got up and offered my seat – she was grateful
I’m sure very few people here care, but I wrote the other day on a Fort Greene thread that there had been vacant lot on Cumberland that had changed hands, that the price had been run up to the point it looked likely no one would be able to buy it and make a go of building the 4-condo building now.
This is what happened in the 80’s: properties were flipped and finally someone was left holding the bag..meanwhile, properties lay fallow for years throughout the 90’s. It happened with buildings as well as vacant lots.
Now, as I remember, the most recent owner of the lot on Cumberland had filed and, I remember, received approvals for the 4-unit building. I was said to hear that the lot’s asking price was $1 million. It just seemed that nothing would get built since the price of the land was too high. The land would add $250K to each apartment on its own.
Anyway, I noticed the lot now has building permits on the fence. I am amazed someone is going through with a new building project right now but all the power to them!
So when do sellers traditionally start listing their houses again after the xmas/new years break? I’m getting bored looking at the same few houses online.
Similar to what M4L said, I know a couple about to list their home in Brooklyn Heights and, despite their disdain for bankers (present company excluded, of course) are actually hoping the bankers get big bonuses so they can start buying again.
“So when do sellers traditionally start listing their houses again after the xmas/new years break? I’m getting bored looking at the same few houses online.”
Me too, chicken. The other night my broker told me March listings begin the Spring selling season.
I think anybody who is able bodied and isn’t already carrying something should offer to help. When I was hobbling on my cane and couldn’t help, I saw several people rush past a woman struggling with a stroller, some even bumping into her and the stroller, not even bothering to apologize for bumping her and almost knocking her stroller kid and all down the steps. Of course I also believe that EVERY subway station should be handicap accessible.
wish they pay out ALL the bonuses now so real estate mkt can react to that quickly so we can see how mkt is post the bonus $$$ – ie what would sellers do when they see their ppties were not the one which got bought by the big bonuses.
M4L- of course, I am not surprised. I also witnessed on the D train last night when all the Asian folks got on the train at Canal Street, this little old Chinese lady bent over with a cain struggled to get a seat to then have the middle seat taken from a Chinese girl who was 15 – aren’t Chinese people taught to respect their elders??
anyway, despite me having surgery and really needed the seat, I of course got up and offered my seat – she was grateful
I’m sure very few people here care, but I wrote the other day on a Fort Greene thread that there had been vacant lot on Cumberland that had changed hands, that the price had been run up to the point it looked likely no one would be able to buy it and make a go of building the 4-condo building now.
This is what happened in the 80’s: properties were flipped and finally someone was left holding the bag..meanwhile, properties lay fallow for years throughout the 90’s. It happened with buildings as well as vacant lots.
Now, as I remember, the most recent owner of the lot on Cumberland had filed and, I remember, received approvals for the 4-unit building. I was said to hear that the lot’s asking price was $1 million. It just seemed that nothing would get built since the price of the land was too high. The land would add $250K to each apartment on its own.
Anyway, I noticed the lot now has building permits on the fence. I am amazed someone is going through with a new building project right now but all the power to them!
“On a more upbeat note, the banks are all getting closer to doling out bonuses.”
I have a checking and a savings account in a bank. How much of a bonus am I going to get?
So when do sellers traditionally start listing their houses again after the xmas/new years break? I’m getting bored looking at the same few houses online.
TextperV, the ladies got worst grades in my eyes in that situation