I'm a Real Estate Agent: 3 Reasons I'm Optimistic About the Market in Summer 2024

In some respects, the real estate market in the US has been on a roll in recent years, with housing prices rising by around 15% over the past three years, according to Redfin data. Yet at the same time, many prospective buyers are frustrated by high mortgage rates and high listing prices, causing so

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Pandemic-Era Newlyweds Consider an Age-Old Question: To Buy or Not to Buy?

With their lease on a Lower East Side apartment expiring, two software engineers wondered if buying made more sense than renting, now that the housing market wasn’t quite so frenzied. Here’s what they found. Kathleen Li and Matthew Molnar hoped to find a place with enough room to raise a family and

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A slice of Miami living at a Brooklyn waterfront estate

This is Brooklyn? A waterfront suburban neighborhood redefines what it means to live in New York City. Mill Basin, a small community located on a peninsula facing Jamaica Bay, started life as mostly single-family residences in the 1960s. The area today appeals to buyers who crave a waterfront locati

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