By Frederick Peters Board package preparation is one of our industry’s most important and underrated skills. It requires financial know-how, authorial and editorial skills, and a keen ability to craft disparate elements into a coherent and compelling narrative. As most of my readers will know, co-operative apartment purchases, and increasingly purchases in condominiums as well,
Read more %1$sMortgages Matter: What Americans Need To Learn From The Past Recession
By Frederick Peters Are we safe from another mortgage meltdown? During the first quarter of 2019, ATTOM Data Solutions reports that fewer than 10% of outstanding mortgage loans nationwide are “seriously underwater.†“Seriously underwater†means that the mortgages on the property exceed its value by 25%. While slightly higher than the level at this time last year, this
Read more %1$sSmarter Living: Why Layouts Matter
By Frederick Peters Does every home need a great room? Do buyers need, or even want, a dining room? How important is the kitchen, especially in a market like New York? Does it matter whether the ceiling is 9Â feet high, or 8 feet high, or 11Â feet high? While in our data-hungry age values tend to
Read more %1$sThe Non-Financial Benefit Of Home-ownership
By Frederick Peters We are a nation of homeowners. Tax benefits and government encouragement have always driven American home buying in a way unfamiliar to most other developed world nations. For most Americans, their home represent their largest investment. And in recent years, the fluctuations in value around that investment have become a cause for
Read more %1$sNobody knows what is going to happen next. So we just have to live.
Frederick Peters Nobody knows what is going to happen next. So we just have to live. President Warburg Realty Partnership 212-439-4502 Why buy real estate? If, as Michael Lewis suggests in “Boomerangâ€, the Greek government is just a big piñata at which every citizen had the right to a whack, and if Iceland is
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