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One Best and One Worst Asian Restaurants After 1 Year

November 23, 2010

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 […]

Q3 2010 – Blumstein Team ranked #14 out of 1,400 NRT Teams!

November 19, 2010

The National Realty Trust (NRT) has released their results for the 3rd Quarter of 2010 and the Blumstein Team made the top 100 list out of approximately 1,400 teams. Specifically, we were ranked #14, putting us in the 99th percentile of teams across the country! A letter from Bruce Zipf, the President and CEO of NRT cites our […]

Find Fall Flavored Foliage in NYC Forests – 30 Treed Areas to Explore

November 10, 2010

As Fall gives way to Winter, so do the last vestiges of life and warmth. The sun disappears earlier and earlier, skirts and t-shirts become pants and pea coats. Smiles turn upside down and the morning wind outside your window bellows in an icy shriek – “staaaay hooooOOoooome…”. In the final week or two of this transition, […]

Interested in Micro-Living? UWS 90 sqft ‘studio’ for $700/mo

November 9, 2010

One of the most fascinating aspects of real estate is that you get a peek at the inside of someone’s home and get a sense of how people live. While there may be some fun color to individual glances, the overarching themes that come up help paint a broader picture of the hidden life of human beings. […]

How Does the GOP Shift in the House Affect Housing?

November 3, 2010

With nearly all votes tallied for the 2010 election, it appears as though the House will be held in the majority by republicans. This shift in governance brings ideological changes to how our government will approach a variety of issues. With Real Estate being such an important aspect of wealth in America, undoubtedly new policies will […]

East Village and LES Rental Round-Up – November 2010

November 2, 2010

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

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 […]

Google Close to Buying 111 Eighth Ave – for $2,000,000,000

October 27, 2010

According to a CNBC post this morning, Google is rumored to be close to signing a contract to purchase 111 Eighth Ave in lower Chelsea. The building is 2.9 million square feet of commercial space, of which Google currently rents 500,000.

Doug Sundheim’s Leading Idea – Don’t Stop Bad Behaviors…Start Good Ones

October 26, 2010

There is little to add to this week’s Leading Idea by Doug Sundheim. We all have our own shortcomings, vices and bad behaviors that if we’re lucky enough to recognize we want to fix. Doug’s solution makes a lot of sense. Don’t stop bad behaviors…start good ones “Nature abhors a vacuum” — François Rabelais (1494?-1553), […]

Buckling Down on Appraisers – Increasing the Fairness of Appraisals

October 26, 2010

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 […]