Is It a Buyer's or Seller's Market in Townhouses?
Here’s an email we received from a reader this week: I was hoping you could foment some sort of discussion on the summer brooklyn townhouse market. I can’t really figure out what’s going on. It seems like a lot of stuff is left over from the spring, but then some great stuff just flies off…
Here’s an email we received from a reader this week:
I was hoping you could foment some sort of discussion on the summer brooklyn townhouse market. I can’t really figure out what’s going on. It seems like a lot of stuff is left over from the spring, but then some great stuff just flies off the shelf. I’ve been to dozens of open houses the past few weeks, some are empty, some are thronged. I can’t tell if it’s a buyer’s market or a seller’s market. It seems like a lot of people are waiting for the fall to see what comes on the market. What’s your sense?
Seems to us like there’s not a lot of good inventory and that buyers aren’t desperate enough to go for the crap. Your thoughts?
Photo by Da Nator
Also, Prospective Buyer, I think people are saying you are knocking Brooklyn because you can’t afford it because in your first post, YOU SAID YOU CAN’T AFFORD IT:
“For the next ten years, my wife and I, and any children that we might have in the near future would be restricted on our lif style….”
Not buying because you’d be overstretched IS not being able to afford it. It’s just that, unlike the overspenders out there, you realize you can’t afford it, even if you don’t like to use that term.
Amy, your fan club (i.e., anon 5:27 and I) are here for you and appreciate both your Kathy Griffin-esque zingers and the other attempts to crack us up that you may think go over like lead balloons. Have your nap (and eat it too) and we’ll both be back later with our unappreciated sarcasm and unadulterated cynicism.
“Oh, and finally, as to those arguments that I am knocking Brooklyn, because I can’t afford it, hold your classist opinions. Amazing as it may be, my wife and I can afford a brownstone, but have chosen not to buy…”
Yes, yes, of course. Everyone on Brownstoner makes the best of all possible choices, lives in the best of all possible places, is as happy as humanly possible, and would not do anything or live anywhere differently if they won the Megamillons tomorrow.
We’re all as content as can possibly be. Can’t you tell from all the positivity here?
But I don’t drink! Can I eat a lot of cheese first?
Amy,
I, for one, find that appalling.
I would never consider a nap without first enjoying a beer.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think the request to break up your posts was in order to cater to a yuppie with a crackberry (which is redundant). I think it was a joke referencing the over/under bets early in the thread.
I think if everyone assumed from now on that comments were sarcastic/joking/not to be taken literally unless there was strong evidence to the contrary, this would be more fun. Also, it would rain money, gas would be given away for free, puppies would never die, and Katie would kick Tom to the curb and raise all three of his children to be free-thinking non-robots.
OK, obviously the pressure to make my following (of two) laugh is getting to me, and it’s feeling forced. I need a nap.
to combine the two topics:
When i told my cubicle neighbor, who lives deep in NJ in Morristown, that we live in Park Slope her answer was:
Is that the place with all the Bugaboos?
I lived in the midwest 5;54, and it was like that there too. Thirty years make a difference all over.
i thought the ‘burbs were where you go to die…
no?