Actress Michelle Williams purchased this Brooklyn home in 2015. Lisa Chamoff As the COVID-19 pandemic brought New York City to a near standstill three months ago, my world, like that of many of my neighbors in Brooklyn, shrank to the several walls of my apartment and about as many blocks. On the days when the
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Photo: Getty As real estate professionals, our mission is to help people reach their homeownership goals. Our entire existence is consumed with thinking about how to help more people get their keys. We lie awake in bed thinking of ideas for doing this at a bigger scale. After a decade in the industry, I have
Photo: Getty There’s a hidden secret in real estate: Single-family houses are evaluated based on market comparables (“comps”), while the real power of real estate lies in the profitability of commercial residential properties and knowing how to force equity. One of the largest purchases in most Americans’ lives is their residence. Be sure your largest
Marina Pointe is among the new highly walkable communities along waterfronts in Tampa, Fla. BTI Partners Back in the 1970s, between years of grad school, I rode the rails around the country on an Amtrak railpass. When the pass and my cash expired, I found myself in Tampa. I got a room at the fleabag
Getty It began with a form letter that a large company sent to all its landlords. In that letter, the company said the coronavirus closures had decimated its revenues, so the company asked the landlord to defer all rent for April through July 2020, a total of four months, with repayment to start at some