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Home Inspection

A home inspection checklist if you are buying an NYC brownstone

Thank you, Brick Underground, for the opportunity to contribute along with my Coldwell Banker Warburg colleagues to Evelyn Battaglia article "A home inspection checklist if you are buying an NYC brownstone."   Consider making the offer contingent on the home inspection—and get it done as soon as possible. Common concerns include the facade, foundation, structure, roof, plumbing, Continue Reading

3 Trends That Are Good News for Today’s Homebuyers

  While higher mortgage rates are creating affordability challenges for homebuyers this year, there is good news for those still looking to buy a home. As the market has cooled this year, some of the intensity buyers faced during the pandemic's peak frenzy has also cooled. Here are a few trends that may benefit you when buying a home today. 1. More Homes To Choose Continue Reading

The Journey To Buy a Home [INFOGRAPHIC]

  Key Take Aways When you head out to buy a home, several key milestones will be encountered along the way. The process includes everything from building your team and understanding your finances to going house hunting, making an offer, and more. Your journey starts here. Let’s connect, so you have expert guidance each step of the way. Other educational Continue Reading

Negotiation Power

Buyers Are Regaining Some of Their Negotiation Power in Today’s Housing Market

  If you're thinking about buying a home today, there's welcome news. Even though it’s still a sellers’ market, it’s a more moderate sellers’ market than last year. And the days of feeling like you may need to waive contingencies or pay drastically over the asking price to get your offer considered may be coming to a close. Negotiation Power is back. Today, you should have less Continue Reading

Home Renovations

Renovation Plans and Permits

  Home renovations are time-consuming and costly, so establishing—and sticking to—a strategy to stay on budget is critical. And too often, in an effort to stay on budget, property owners cut corners that will ultimately come back to haunt them when they seek to sell their homes. Side-stepping the permits, licenses, and approvals needed for any improvement is all too common, but doing so Continue Reading

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