Favorite TV RE Shows: Open House NYC --It's Like Candy!

yummy! a private pool, that's cool.

when is it on?

http://lxtv.com/openhousenyc/

They keep showing the same episode over and over again.

I think they're afraid to make new ones, with the prices cut in half.

Or maybe they just can't find potential buyers to follow around.

My box only records new ones. I've been getting a new one each Sunday for the past few weeks I think. That one yesterday with 500 WEA is a repeat? Oh, well. I didn't see them before so I'm loving it. Like "take in" open houses.

I'm more of a "house hunters international" and "buy me" fan, guess I see enough NYC property on my own.

Funny little side story to the NY OH show; A fiends apartment was featured and the customer made some not very complimentary comments on camera, he was pissed! lol.

fiend is friend...

LOL Kyle. Love Open House NYC.

Love this weeks Harlem brownstone for $2.1MM

I like how they're switching it up with the market shifts. Did you see the one a week or two ago when the middle aged female broker showed the UES (i think) fixer-upper to the middle aged female buyer who could barely stomach walking through the place. At least they "tried" to be sensitive to the times :).

I've also been watching This Old House Hour b/c they're renovating a Brooklyn brownstone, but it seems to have taken a small hiatus

here it is, http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/377148-multi-236-west-138th-street-central-harlem-new-york

Because it is kinda low budget and slapped together fast, I think you get more genuine reactions from people than we're accustomed to on most HGTV show. I LOVED that buyer who all but said, "Get me out of here" in the fixer-upper. I also like going on Streeteasy after the show to see if the price already dropped or what some rooms look like that the TV left out or glossed over. It's just a form of Sunday fun to add to the NYT's crossword and the morning news shows.

I'd much rather watch The Stoler Report on CUNY TV. Call me boring, but I think the info is much more important.

"Important?" That is so NOT the point! It's just fun in part because it is so utterly UNimportant!

I prefer other "fun" activities for my jollies. Watching promotion of overpriced property, hosted by people too young to have experienced a downturn, I admit, is escapist.

love it. Watch every sunday

i like it ...enjoy the To the Rescue part of the show.

I think Sunday's was new. They used to feature someone looking for an apt. being escorted around by a broker. Not this week. What should we read into that?

I also like the Canadian lady agent on Property Virgins. Toronto RE is a lot less money than NYC. Maybe we should move there.

kylewest: "I also like the Canadian lady agent on Property Virgins."

She's condescending. Whenever anyone raises any kind of concern, her response is "oh, you property virgins. I'll teach you how things really are."

I like how the Canadian lady chides people into spending every cent they have! And how if they want a place with a garage, she'll take them to one and not mention there is a foot of water in the basement until they go to look and nearly drown. I also like her negotiating strategies which all center around paying the asking price minus the cost of a cup of coffee. I suppose what I enjoy about her is how personable she is while at the same time she's kinda screwing young couples. And she does it week after week!

How does she get to sell these places in a million cities? She can't be licensed all over. She hooks up with local agents we never see? Wonder how the logistics work.

Yes I forgot about Property Virgins...love it. It can be painful to watch as someone really reaches to buy some less than desirable home...pre-bubble implosion. It's like "No, just wait another 6 months that house will be worth 40% less!".

There's also another show called NY Residential. Pretty good too although they also kept repeating episodes. My favorite part is when they have a few brokers estimating the value of an apartment, quite informative.

devinneeee desiggnnnn, thank you.

That NY Residential show is in my DVR but I guess I've never seen it because it is programmed to only tape new episodes. Maybe soon... I'm also waiting to see how the buying RE shows reflect the new markets. The backlog of shows taped up until last October have to be exhausted pretty soon.

I like how noone actually buys anything.

They find people to browse, and half of them are still "browsing" 6 months later... and then other half didn't like the apartments they saw anyway, so they likely just stopped looking because they lost their jobs.

I used to enjoy "Moving Up" with Doug Wilson (is it still on). It was fun to watch previous owners bash the new owner's changes :)

Best part of house hunters is "3 months later" - seeing what they did with the place.

Oh, and i used to DVR the show with Barry - about buying the dump and fixing it up ... voila on his Mac....don't remember the name.

My husband thinks all these shows (mostly the flipping shows) perpetuate the problem(s) in real estate. LOL.

what about "my house is worth what?" with the chick who won the apprentice? any of you ever catch that? i don't they're making new episodes. too painful.

uwsmom: YES! The "House Hunters" 'ding-dong' part at the end is the best.

Ohhh here's a thread I can call home...RE_LookieJunkie could have been my handle in a past life. Big fan of house hunters international... ugly americans try to become jet setters in exotic locales... "oh lookie here honeeee, a whatchamacallit tub with jets...ooh so romantic...gimmee a wet kiss for buying me this pretty house!"

I love OHNY, Definitely NYC RE-Porn but does anyone else think she talks TOO LOUD in those echoey apartments!

...and yeah, the ding dong part is my fave part too ;)
I want Suzanne Whong's job

Today's delusion:
Bought (sorry, missed the address) in 2005 for 1.1M. Says put 200k in to redo. Would like to get 1.6M but would "settle" for 1.5M.
Brokers appraise at 1.35M and 1.2M.
Barbara Corcoran tells him to list it at 995K.
Look on his face...priceless.

Speaking of Barbara -- did she buy NBC or something. You CAN'T turn on that channel without seeing her.

I love this show. It is made for moron tv and I can't help but watch it.

Just saw for the first time the tail end of NY Residential on channel 11. One of the hosts was Jeff Appel of Manhattan Mortgage; I did not catch the name of the co-host(ess). Sukenik showed a couple of ~$3.4 M apartments, one at One Morton Square (with Lady Liberty views) and the other a converted warehouse type of thing. The final segment was a piece on Wendy Maitland's (AR's boss's) obsession with Manolos and Jimmy Changs. She has a couple of hundred of them, some in storage that she can view via a webcam and have delivered to her in 90 minutes when needed. Wendy can also do cartwheels.

Ian was kind of hot...

looking2return & uwsmon: I was LMAO when the guy on "open house ny" actually thought there was a chance he would get a $200,000-$300,000 profit...at least the brokers were honest and told him that the value decreased...I actually think he'll be lucky to get $800,000 when this shakes out.

The HGTV show "what is my home worth" is horrible...according to them there isn't a national housing crisis, everyone makes a profit in HGTV land

Let HGTV keep running their shows with men that look like Carter Oosterhouse and David Bromfield and I don't care what they tell me

according to the pedicab driver in central park today, nyc has not been affected by the mortgage crisis...at least that's what he told the tourists as they passed 15 CPW ;). I smiled and nodded...

then on my way home, walked by 15 CPW while residents were loading their vehicle and heard them complaining about open houses and how their place has been on the market for SOOO long...I smiled and nodded ;)

The serial-flippers in a couple of the shows -- the ones with sets of brothers -- are so obnoxious I click on by. I like the flip show with the tall blonde advisor; she seems to know what she's talking about and she makes sense when bawling out the misguided flippers.

House Hunters Int'l is interesting when it's Europe and a hoot when it's Central America. All the allure of some mosquito-ridden banana republic and bars on the windows. (Why do the buyers never ask about that on-camera?)

On House Hunters, the buyers must get a list of rules. Exposed underwear for the husbands, bad hair for the wives, and always, always, hold hands when traipsing through that sad vinyl-sided house.

The shows do provide some perspective on what it's like outside NYC. Let's us know just how easy it is to get too insular.

lol true all that ;)

For a second I really thought the guy on NY Openhouse was going to punch Barbra Corcoran in the face when she told him to list his apartment for $100K less than he paid in '05 despite the $200K he put into it.

ok....best post of the decade. hadn't quite thought about it until you mentioned but you're 100% correct.

what happened to Million Dollar Listing on Bravo... you know, the show with those kids in Malibu; one is gay and the other one is 30 but looks like he is still in high school?

LOL alpine. that show was such trash and I LOVED it! I'll watch almost anything on Bravo...