My Brooklyn Report

At the beginning of each year, real estate brokerages publish market reports on property sales from the previous year and offer forecasts on whether home values will rise or fall in the current year.

Practically everyone in the business gets their property sales data from PropertyShark.com, and they get it from New York City’s Department of Finance.

While the information furnished is pretty accurate for coops, condos and mixed use property, the controversy surrounds sales data on 1 to 3 family home sales in Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods.

I promised to get our Brooklyn Block Party started, right? And now I’m ready to set it off.  I’ve got the cars off the block, put up the “do not cross” police barriers and sent out “save the date” flyers to everyone so no one would forget. But you know how we do…you tell your [...]

What kind of property do you own? Your brownstone’s legal use will play a vital role in how much you could sell or refinance it for. Use these 3 steps to find out.

In a move designed to protect homeowners, the New York City Department of Finance on July 13th 2010 announced a new program that will become the first line of defense in preventing Mortgage Fraud and House Theft. The Notice of Recorded Document program was created to provide notification via mail, email or SMS text message [...]

Over the last 10 years, there have been a number of companies offering information about real estate sales via the Internet. Once considered proprietary data by Multiple Listing Services, property sales information is made available by a number of public web sites. And as with any information discovered on the Internet, real estate sales data made [...]