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One Best and One Worst Asian Restaurants After 1 Year

November 23, 2010

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article and restaurant opinions by Grant Braswell I can never seem to eat enough asian food.  Be it Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indian or other, the spices and flavor combinations of the west almost always please my palate.  Sure, a lot of times the food is not as authentic to the region as it could be, but most […]

East Village and LES Rental Round-Up – November 2010

November 2, 2010

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originally posted on NearSay by Contributor Grant Braswell With the ensuing holiday season comes a lull in rental activity.  The downtown students matriculating to Parsons, NYU, Cooper Union and FIT among others have (hopefully) locked in their apartment to focus on their scholarly pursuits at Bar None and Pommes Frites.  For everyone else, the prospect […]

Moving on Up! Harlem Continues to Attract Investment, Conflicted Feelings

November 1, 2010

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Clients and people we meet off the street are constantly asking where to find the next Alphabet City, the next Williamsburg (that hopefully wont stagnate).  Those who are thinking more longterm want to find the next good investment, and who could blame them.  Our own team has good personal experience with this type of foresight as […]

Buckling Down on Appraisers – Increasing the Fairness of Appraisals

October 26, 2010

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Market watch just dropped an article on the new laws coming into effect for the appraisal community.  This is an important issue in the real estate world as appraisers bridge the gap between actual value and what a new buyer wants to pay, be it too low or high.  Traditionally they are constantly pulled in […]

Walking a Tight Rope – Development in the East Village

October 25, 2010

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  originally posted by Grant Braswell of the Blumstein Team on Nearsay.com This last weekend, Corcoran Sunshine (Corcoran’s new development arm) held a gigantic open house spanning the entire city and all of their new developments.  Hundreds if not thousands of brokers and buyers came out in force to check out the properties. My team was […]

Biking Downtown in New York City – A Dream Tough to Get Right

October 19, 2010

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Originally posted on Nearsay.com by contributor Grant Braswell   One goal of any urban area should be to make available options for clean, quick and relatively cheap transportation. We can’t ask people to not use cars – that would (lamentably) be un-American. Buses are helpful, but they are painfully slow.  While a full bus is one smallest […]

Intermix Hosts HelpUsAdopt.Org Fundraiser in the UES

October 14, 2010

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From Grant Braswell on NearSay.com Last night a sleek and successful charity event for HelpUsAdopt.Org graced Intermix on Madison at East 78th street.  The stylish clothing store for women opened their doors and provided event-goers with a space to gather.  They also generously gave people a 15% discount for anything purchased during the event. Men and women alike […]

Digital Media in Real Estate – Leveraging the New Landscape

October 14, 2010

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The following is Grant Braswell’s first article on NearSay.com, a new website providing neighborhood level information on the arts, real estate, food and more. Within 3 blocks of the corner of East 10th and Broadway, you can find 2 Corcoran offices, a Halstead Office, an Elliman office and a handful of smaller brokerages.  The offices have […]

US Vacancy Rates drop 0.6% to 7.2%

October 6, 2010

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A few days ago we wrote about the more confident landlord mindset heading into the fall of 2010.  However, due to a small increase in vacancy in the city from the lows of July/August, there was a question of if it would last. Well, an article just released by Reuters discusses how the national vacancy rate […]

Getting Around NYC – Get NYCMate for your Smart Phone

October 1, 2010

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The other day I (Grant) was discussing with a friend the importance of the live mapping feature in Google Maps for when I first moved here about a year ago.  Upon getting my 1st smart phone the day I moved here, I had a quick leg up in learning the city’s ins and outs and maximizing […]

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