2009 Predictions and Resolutions?
Anyone have any predictions for the Brooklyn real estate market or renovation resolutions? How about the financial markets in general? As far as the real estate market goes, we’re just hoping that Clinton Hill doesn’t slip too far below 2004 values (where it’s probably pretty close to already); as for renovation, it’s a fair bet…
Anyone have any predictions for the Brooklyn real estate market or renovation resolutions? How about the financial markets in general? As far as the real estate market goes, we’re just hoping that Clinton Hill doesn’t slip too far below 2004 values (where it’s probably pretty close to already); as for renovation, it’s a fair bet that we won’t be moving the kitchen down to the parlor floor in ’09. Others?
“I’m going to go out on a limb and predict the What’s war is finally going to end. i’d say in October. On a Tuesday. Sometime before noon.”
Beau Guest is my new favorite poster on this blog. LOL.
Mopar, I design and produce soft home furnishings, like bedding, decorative pillows, tabletop items, bath accessories, throws, etc, etc. Also simple window dressings. I work mainly for high end decorators, but also individual clients. I source fabrics and trims for clients, too. I also consult on color selection, and basic design questions, especially regarding period interiors, but I am not an interior decorator. I’m branching out into lighting and other hard accessories, and am working with 2 different partners in designing and producing various forms of the above. We are also working on a couple of websites to feature our products, but I don’t have anything as of yet on the internet. I’ve done homes, restaurants and hotels. I’m in negotiation for a restaurant job now, hopefully that will come through soon.
Thanks, cwb, I wish you the same.
i’m going to go out on a limb and subscribe to panarin’s predictions (link below). so by the end of 09, we will be in a full blown civil war. brownstones in prime areas should be about $50K (in gold only). after we are taken over by the EU in 2010 and adopt the euro, our economy will improve and it should be worth 5mn euros (as euro-trash migrate to their new colony and demand increases). if that doesn’t come true, then i predict that will smith’s “i am legend” will happen in 2010. either way, i win.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html
RMjr – I’ve noticed several things:
1. Individual cops walking the beat on odd little side streets where a year ago you wouldn’t see them.
2. More people collecting plastic bottles and cans for redemption.
3. I have noticed an uptick in odd people on my block doing what looks to me like casing houses – but no robberies so far.
MM, do you design things?
cobblehiller – have you seen more homeless walking around cobble hill lately? i have. and recently we’ve been having our newspapers stolen out of our front vestibule and even the metal drain pipe was ripped off the side of our building (assuming sold for scrap metal). i’ve only lived here since 97, but i’m definitely noticing an uptick.
“I also hope Obama brings back the ban on assault weapons.”
Not a chance. He has more important things to worry about. Anyway, they’ve been banned in NYC since Dinkins.
Crime will definitely move up. I too have seen things I haven’t seen in years. There are many people working in low-end construction, demo and what not, who could slide right back into another lifestyle when they can’t find work. The NYPD alone can’t take credit for reducing crime, let’s give some props to the people who aren’t committing any.
In case you haven’t noticed the murder rate is already up for this year and there have been a spate of murders in the last week or two.
However I don’t see crime rising enuf to affect real estate prices.
I predict that as soon as things start to improve — 2010, say — the U.S. will no longer be able to borrow money, and the world will end. I hope I’m wrong about that.
More certainly, there will be more bankruptcies and layoffs in the first quarter of 2009. Housing prices will keep going down. Interest rates will keep going up. The Fed won’t be able to stop it.
Meanwhile, artists will continue to remake Bushwick.
Manhattan would become a has-been except for the subway service.
re: Crime – well, I was pretty sure crime was going up when a kid got knocked down and mugged for his iPod and phone right infront of me in broad daylight with dozens of other people right nearby on Halloween.
Then I heard a day ago, that a woman was raped at knife point at Kane and Cheever at 11:30 in the morning. It hasn’t been on the news that I’ve seen. I heard there were signs posted about this in my neighborhood, I haven’t seen them.