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?
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In response to one person’s questions, why this blog has so many posts on the suburbs is that this site is no longer about brownstones.
3:30, just because a place is a popular tourist destination doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a great place to live. I would love to visit Antarctica, Bali, etc., but am not plan on moving there anytime soon.
There is a reason why people who come to visit the U.S. don’t say….Our top list of places to hit are Darien, Nyack and Orange. It’s NYC, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle.
You know why? There’s aint nothing to see in those places. Now imagine growing up for the first 18 years of your life in a place like that…
Any questions?
Amy, you’re cracking me up. I’m loving your humourous interludes.
those of you who make your life decision based on your single experience 30 years ago are idiots
It is a very different life in the suburbs for the parents than it is for the children. The parents think it’s nice and peaceful and the kids usually hate it.
Ask around…see how many 20 somethings enjoyed living in the suburbs. Parents are the ones who make the decisions obviously about where to live, but the kids are usually the ones that suffer.
i think some of you are missing the point here. it’s not bashing the suburbs for the sake of bashing….
some of you old timers grew up in the suburbs when they were a fun place, when all your friends were bolting the big cities in search of a bucolic life without crime. i get that.
things have changed. for most of us that are 35 and under, growing up in the suburbs was like a prison sentence. it was awful. the suburbs these days have a way of making you feel like it’s not ok to be different, it’s not ok to be creative and it’s just plain boring.
those of you who are taking your kids out of the best city in the world so they they can play by themselves in their great big lush backyard are doing themselves a disservice. i truly believe that.
i think it’s one of the big reasons why so many kids these days are unable to interract with other people unless it’s over a computer, and why our nation is becoming fatter, why we are addicted to the television, etc.
i’m not saying it’s not possible to raise a well adjusted kid in the suburbs, but i can speak from experience that if i ever have a child, i would not want them to grow up in a perfectly lovely, upscale suburb like i did.
just my 2 cents.
what’s up with people in the city judging the “burbs” who have never lived there…as pathetic as people outside nyc saying how horrible living in nyc is, when they’ve never lived there either.
i’ve lived half my life in BOTH. they’re both great. only thing is, far more insecure city folk bashing everything outside city limits.
You really come off as tacky. Not EDGY, or tough. Grow up..
2:46pm, Please re-read my post from 11am. I read brownstoner because I have a brownstone investment property. You know, I kind of want to keep track of that. I also read it when I don’t feel like working.