Northeast

I was on a Zoom call recently with a few investor friends, talking shop. One friend was celebrating a one-year anniversary of renting out a home in Bensonhurst. She asked if there was anything [...]

When I first moved to Delaware 25 years ago, after my wife took a job in Wilmington, there was one thing that surprised me the most: the palm trees. I didn’t know Delaware had palm trees. My [...]

Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine, another real estate investor, who worked in Albany. He mentioned that he knew several people who were moving to my city, Binghamton, and thought that [...]

I was recently sitting down with the son of an old acquaintance. He wanted to start investing in rental properties in New York like I’ve spent a career doing, and was showing me his business [...]

As a long-time investor in Buffalo, NY investment property, I’m often asked about the nature of the Buffalo market. I like questions like this one because it gives me an excuse to talk about the [...]

When COVID-19 was first declared a pandemic, every investor I know was glued to the real estate sections of the New York Times and Crain’s. The coronavirus seemed to be creating extreme highs and [...]

Back in early March when New Jersey reported the first positive cases of the coronavirus and Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency, it hit the real estate market with uncertainty. Both [...]

If you are a true New Yorker like me, a quick breakfast bite every morning is often an easy choice between bagel and egg sandwich, with a hot cup of coffee. I wish I could say the same when it [...]

At a real estate conference a while ago, I had a bunch of people come up and ask me about the economy, where I thought the market was going, and even about some little neighborhoods in the [...]