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  • Sales
    'Jumbo' Mortgages Still Costly - And Harder to Get
    Updated over 17 years ago
    "March 24, 2009 While most mortgage rates are heading lower, people looking to buy or refinance a more expensive house may be out of luck. That's because the...
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  • Neighborhoods
    If you could live anywhere in UWS...
    Updated over 17 years ago
    If you could live anywhere in UWS, where would you live (block, street, corner, whatever)? And please tell why! Though, don't tell me what building. That's irrelevant....
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  • Market
    Why Are These Renters Smiling?
    Updated over 17 years ago
    Rents are down throughout New York. According to the February Manhattan Rental Market Report produced by the Real Estate Group, a New York brokerage firm, rents in...
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  • Sales
    Foriegn Buyers Are Back?
    Updated over 17 years ago
    This is funny. Note how broker is quoted as saying 40% of her buyers now are European! (but she is director of European sales for her brokerage). Yeah, and 99% of my...
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  • Sales
    Sellers...the party is over
    Updated over 17 years ago
    Get it!! You cannot ask $1000 or around there per sqf. Who is going to buy? Times have changed and you have to go down, a lot down. These prices are CRAZY!!!!!!
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  • Market
    Mortgage Rates at ALL-TIME Lows!!! Does It Matter??
    Updated over 17 years ago
    Lots of talk about mortgage rates at all-time lows by the SteveF/Juiceman braintrust. Okay, this one's easy. This should be a catalyst for the market. But it...
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  • Sales
    NYC Housing Shortage
    Updated over 17 years ago
    While I take for a given that prices have become ridiculously and unsustainably inflated over the past decade, and that they have come down at least 20 percent so far...
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