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Real estate: the ultimate game of risk and reward. It’s the biggest investment most people ever makeFortunes are won and lost every day. How do you stay ahead of the game? Who’s buying, who’s selling and why? You need an edge. Boroughs & Burbs. This podcast is your secret weapon, giving you the insider knowledge and strategies you need to succeed in the high-stakes and cutthroat world of real estate. The Boroughs are New York City.The Burbs are wherever you are: Connecticut, Austin, the Hamptons, Carolinas, Florida and beyond. From Palm Beach to Palm Springs, Manhattan to Malibu, we travel the country pressing the experts in every luxury market to expose the pain, find the deals, and occasionally predict the future. Don’t settle for mediocrity - tune in to Boroughs & Burbs Thursdays 3pm Eastern and start dominating your market.
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Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Episode 61: State of the Market
with industry powerhouses Lisa Lippman & Louise Phillips Forbes
Lisa Lippman, last years #1 agent at Brown Harris Stevens, now with 35 listings
Louise Phillips Forbes, top team leader at Brown Harris Stevens, now with 23 listings
With so many conflicting headlines and opinions out there...
What are they telling their clients?
What's really happening?
What do they expect?
These two are going to help us sift through the noise and perhaps give us some predictions. Please join us, this will be good!
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Lisa Lippman was on Episode 12, one of our most watched shows, where she first let us in on her secret to success in the 5th minute https://youtu.be/p1tZu1I4jZM?t=302
Louise Phillips Forbes said in Episode #2 “Lord knows I’ve been planting a lot of seeds and…it looks like it could be an 8-deal week” (You had 40 listings worth $126 million)The advice you gave us is more true today: https://youtu.be/mpTepeu9IDw?t=159
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John Engel - John Engel can be found at http://www.JohnEngel.com. He is a consistently top-producing agent in Fairfield County, Connecticut. John recently won the Realtor of the YearAward in New Canaan where he is has been Chairman of the Town Council and is currently a member of the Planning & Zoning Commission. John also brings an insight into internet-based marketing that is unsurpassed. Before going into real estate he was the founder of two successful internet businesses, Paper.com and e-Media for which he won the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Roberto Cabrera - Roberto can be found at http://www.RobertoCabrera.com. With 20 years of experience, I have been recognized throughout the industry for achieving outstanding results: Ranked nationally by REAL Trends as one of "America's Best Real Estate Agents” for avg. sales price of $4.350M. Sold a single family Townhouse faster than any other on the Upper West Side over $10M. I also studied at The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and I’m a forme
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
This is definitely going to be a different kind of show. These are two incredibly well-connected men in the world of New York real estate whose business it is to know the major trends, who's getting in, who's getting out, and why.
While most of us focus on a few listings at a time we have with us on the show Aaron Feldman, co-founder of Benchmark Real Estate Group a man who has developed, managed and sold dozens of buildings and who currently manages over a thousand apartments worth over $1 billion. The Real Deal was paying attention to Benchmark, noting that they were $400 million sellers between 2015 - 2017. Two years later the Real Deal reported that Benchmark Real Estate Group was back in the market and raising $250 million through the acquisition of a SPAC and an IPO. Has he found any interesting multifamily buildings to buy or develop? Which New York markets are poised to go higher? And, what is the value-add he brings in 2023?
Amir Korangy founded The Real Deal nearly 20 years ago when he realized there was a need in the market to cover the real estate industry here. The online and print publication, which serves as a source for other periodicals, was self-proclaimed "the must-read news source for real estate news," in a profile in the Los Angeles Times in 2009, and "the hot sheet for NYC real estate professionals," by the New York Post. Korangy was named one of the 100 most powerful figures in New York City real estate by the New York Observer in 2009. In 2008 he expanded to the Miami market, and in 2016 he added Los Angeles. In mid-2017, TheRealDeal.com was named the website with the wealthiest audience by Quantcast, and made the top 25- list of websites with the most educated audience. Just under 80 percent of TheRealDeal.com's readers have at least an undergraduate degree.
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Fire Island is a 1-mile-wide barrier island with 32 miles of pristine white sand beaches and no paved roads. It began in 1653 like Nantucket as a whaling community. Real estate boomed in the 1950s, and Fire Island emerged as "the premier bohemian summer retreat" Newly established beach bungalows lit up with creative New Yorkers. Over the next ten years, the landscape became a collage of rooftops where the rich and famous were able to escape.
Like Nantucket the majority of the island is protected and will remain undeveloped. There are approximately 4,500 homes on the island, and about 820,865 people come by ferry to visit the beaches every summer.
- What is the Fire Island of 2022 and how has it changed in the last 10 years?
- Have the bohemians all left, priced out of the market, as Fire Island gentrifies?
- The average price is $1.14 million, half of the average in East Hampton and a third the average of Nantucket. Is Fire Island a relative bargain for affluent New Yorkers?
- Is Fire Island a gay community? According to FireIsland.com this is one of the most frequently asked questions and greatest misconceptions about Fire Island.
- Bloomberg reports that Fire Island Pines is the most expensive its ever been, where a 4 bedroom on Black Duck Walk rents for $17,500 a week.
Ocean Beach, with 600+ houses, is the most established year-round town, but does anybody actually live on Fire Island and commute daily into Manhattan?
- Fire Island Pines summer population swells to 4,000 at peak but in the winter the number dwells to only a few dozen. Is that going to change in a post-covid world?
Robert Kuchar of Douglas Elliman Real Estate
Real estate has always been Robert Kuhar’s life. The son of a builder/contractor who learned the ropes early, he developed a keen eye for property value and potential which he uses to the benefit of his clients. He has owned apartments, single-family and multifamily homes, had experience as an investor and landlord, and overseen all aspects of home building – from cosmetic to plumbing /electrical to structural work.
In addition to being a busy broker in NYC, in May 2019, Robert opened the second Douglas Elliman office on Fire Island, in Ocean Beach – the culmination of a 10-year dream – where he is Branch Manager. He has an intimate understanding of both the NYC and Fire Island markets having lived in New York City for almost 30 years (in the Upper West, Upper East, Downtown, Midtown, Brooklyn and now Harlem), and owned in Ocean Bay Park, Fire Island for 15+ years.
Glenn Rice of Brown Harris Stevens
Glenn Rice moved to NYC in 1991 to attend Columbia University where he received a degree in English Literature. He embraced downtown music and art culture and joined the music industry where he worked in International Marketing for Elektra and at Jive Records where he handled the rollout of sales and promotion efforts for some of music’s top acts. Glenn next ran an international language school for which he traveled all over the world executing marketing strategies. After the purchase of a landmark townhouse on Harlem’s Strivers Row in 2000 at the age of 27, he began his career in real estate where he quickly became the top townhouse broker in Harlem, setting all sales records and creating a client base that still includes some of the top contemporary artists in the world.
Glenn has lived and worked on Fire Island for the past four years and is noted for his renovation of a classic beach cottage in Fire Island Pines creating a modern masterpiece that was recently featured in the New York Times.
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Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
What is Downsizing? Downsizing and the Small House Movement.
📝 "The ongoing pandemic has changed the way we live. Many have left the big city, are working from home, and not going out as much. We have all heard about how our homes have to be healthier, more efficient, more flexible, and perhaps a bit bigger to accommodate all of this. Nobody follows these trends more closely than author Sheri Koones, who has written many books on home design, with the latest being "Bigger Than Tiny, Smaller Than Average."
_____These homes are not as small as the ones in her last book, "Downsize: Living Large in a Small House," which was aimed at a different market at a different time. Can these houses even be considered small, with many running around 1,800 square feet? But the average new American home in 2019 was 2,623 square feet so these are definitely smaller than average, even if a lot bigger than tiny.
The small houses—all 2,000 square feet or less—presented in "Downsize" are owned by people who have made a conscious decision to downsize from a larger home to a smaller home—or who just decided to build small in the first place.
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👩🏻💼 Sheri Koones is a widely respected author who helps readers understand that getting the house of their dreams can be done in an ecologically responsible way.
Her books explore the variety, beauty, and eco-friendly benefits of prefab homes. Her books have evolved from just profiling the variety of prefab methods in her first Prefabulous book to showing how energy-efficient and sustainable houses can be with Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid: Your Path to Building an Energy-Independent Home and Prefabulous + Sustainable: Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy Efficient Home. Prefabulous World: Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Homes Around the Globe explored the beauty and efficiency of houses around the world, from France to South Africa and Japan to Australia.
She has won the prestigious Gold in the Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Awards from NAREE in 2013, 2011, and 2008.
No matter whether you call it downsizing or rightsizing, the trend toward living in a small home is here to stay. In "Downsize: Living Large in a Small House" (Taunton Press, October 29, 2019, $34.95), best-selling author Sheri Koones presents 33 exceptional houses that show how small can be comfortable, practical, energy-efficient—and beautiful.
🧑🏻💻 John Engel - John Engel found at http://www.JohnEngel.com. He is a consistently top-producing agent in Fairfield County, Connecticut. John recently won the Realtor of the Year Award in New Canaan where he has been Chairman of the Town Council and is currently a member of the Planning & Zoning Commission. John also brings an insight into internet-based marketing that is unsurpassed. After graduating, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army and spent some time leading a military intelligence platoon on the front lines of the first Gulf War. He currently lives in New Canaan with his wife Melissa and four children.
🧑🏻💻 Roberto Cabrera - Roberto can be found at http://www.RobertoCabrera.com. With 20 years of experience, I have been recognized throughout the industry for achieving outstanding results: Ranked nationally by REAL Trends as one of "America's Best Real Estate Agents” for avg. the sales price of $4.350M. Sold a single-family Townhouse faster than any other on the Upper West Side for over $10M. I live with my wife and daughter on the Upper West Side, the neighborhood I have called home for the past 23 years.
#RealEstateDownsizing #ThinkingOfDownsizing #SheriKoones #johnengel #robertocabrera #ctbestrealestateagent #ctrealtor #realestateinvesting #
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Ordinarily in September New Yorkers rivalry with Boston is heating up. Not this year. With the Red Sox 16 games back on the Yankees and neither the Patriots, Jets or Giants contending it might be time to focus on real estate and snag that second home on Nantucket you've been thinking about. Boston seems to be on pace to set new records this year despite fears of a national recession. Why? The biggest reason seems to be lack of real estate inventory in a market with strong job growth and continued strong job prospects. Boston may have experienced many of the same problems as New York City during the pandemic with the loss of live entertainment, restaurant, and tourism dollars but like New York is surging past pre-pandemic levels and attracting major new industries such as technology. I think one advantage Boston has always had is the number of universities in the area and the concentration of advanced degrees.
What are the Boston real estate market predictions for 2022 and 2023? With steady job growth, huge gains in home equity, and a large population of millennials now in their peak homebuying years, it is predicted that the demand will stay strong, but sales are likely to be down from historic highs while price appreciation should fall to more modest levels.
Since the last decade (May 2012), the typical home value in Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro has appreciated by nearly 91.4% (Zillow Home Value Index). Boston has several key advantages: low percentage price growth in 2021 relative to other metros, average loan-to-value rate of only 79 percent, low share of flipped homes and loss of population last year. The Boston housing market is very competitive. Homes in Boston receive 3 offers on average and sell in around 21 days. The average sale price of a home in Boston was $760K last month, up 7.0% since last year. The average sale price per square foot in Boston is $612, down 5.6% since last year.
Lisa Rainis - Manages Boston, the Suburbs and the Islands
Carl Lindvall - of The Holly Parker Team on Nantucket
Jesse Greenstein - in Boston & Martha's Vineyard
Craig Brody - sells Boston, the Suburbs, Nantucket & Cape Cod
Johnny Hatam - sells the big, fun Yankee Candle listing in Leverett for $23 million
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Boroughs & Burbs Past Episodes & Watch the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn0GRA-Kf96kZyqcZligAocCKCaNoZP8q
B&B 40: BobStefanowski: Critical Issues for Connecticut's Real Estate Economy
B&B 41: Ari Harkov on the NYC & Brooklyn Markets and Running a Top Team
B&B 42: Affordable Housing - Who Needs It? w/ Tony Hwang, Ryan Fazio, Scott Hobbs & Francis Pickering
B&B 43: Benjamin Moore's Color Expert & Top Designers Talk Color Trends
B&B 44: Noah Rosenblatt of Urban Digs on the New York Market
B&B 45: Governor NedLamont. Conversation on Real Estate & the Connecticut Economy
B&B 46 "Tax The Rich, They Won't Move" Migration and Demographics
B&B 47: "Mexico is Hot"
B&B 48: Zoom On Q1 Market Report for Real Estate in New York & Connecticut - So Hot
B&B 49: Mike Lubin & Matt Cohen on The Post-Covid Market
B&B 50: "Can Housing Keep Rising" Jonathan Miller on Rising Rates
B&B 51: "Designing on a Dime" Sergio Mercado & Jennifer Cohler Mason on Design
B&B 52: The Martha's Vineyard Show with Britt Bast and Cheri Mason
B&B 53: The Vero Beach Show with Sally Daley and Bob McNally
B&B 54: "Bracing for An Economic Hurricane" with Stephen Lascher & David Perry
B&B 55: Thinking of Downsizing? Small Houses with Sheri Koones
B&B 56: How Will Skyrocketing Oil Prices Affect Real Estate? Eric Meyer and Ira Joseph
B&B 57: California Dreamin' and the Market out West. I
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
"Bracing for an Economic Hurricane"
"That hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. We don't know if it's a minor one or Superstorm Sandy. You better brace yourself," said Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase onstage at a conference just yesterday. What does this all mean? What does it mean for the luxury real estate market? What does it mean for the not-so-luxury real estate market? At what point do rising rates have a material effect on market performance and valuations? Will banks change their lending standards as a result? What canbanks do to continue the flow of home buying?
What is the true relationship between interest rates, housing prices and the supply of housing? What we'd like to know is how are major banks responding to the change, and will the window of opportunity be closing for some buyers?
In the 1980's countries such as Japan and Sweden introduced the 100-year intergenerational mortgage in which the borrower pays little more than the interest payments each month. While still rare in America, is it possible that this kind of mortgage could be introduced as an answer to the rising crisis of affordability?
Co-hosts Roberto Cabrera and John Engel will be asking the regional sales managers of two major lenders these questions.
Stephen Lascher of Wells Fargo Bank Steve is a Sales Manager and a founding member of the Wells Fargo Private Mortgage Banking team in New York. Joining Wells Fargo in 2003 Stephen quickly became a member of the organizations elite President's Club having ranked in the top 1% nationally for the past 16 years. Specializing in new development end-loan financing, condominiums, co-ops and multi-family properties, he has extensive experience with borrowers and developers of all backgrounds and property types – having successfully funded over $2.5 billion in residential mortgage transactions throughout his career. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Stephen was an associate in the Equity Research Departments at both UBS Warburg and Morgan Stanley.
David Perry of USBank David M. Perry was recently selected by USBank Home Mortgage to lead the bank's Connecticut office. Perry, who has more than 25 years of financial and industry experience, will lead a team of eight mortgage professionals looking to increase the company's market share in the Connecticut region. Prior to working with USBank, Perry was a market manager with Wells Fargo and with PNC Mortgage. Perry is fluent in Spanish and can assist Spanish-speaking customers as part of his new role.
John Engel can be found at http://www.JohnEngel.com. He is a consistently top-producing agent in Fairfield County, Connecticut. John recently won the Realtor of the Year Award in New Canaan where he has been Chairman of the Town Council and is currently a member of the Planning & Zoning Commission.
Roberto Cabrera can be found at http://www.RobertoCabrera.com. With 20 years of experience, I have been recognized throughout the industry for achieving outstanding results: Ranked nationally by REAL Trends as one of "America's Best Real Estate Agents” for avg. sales price of $4.350M. Sold a single family Townhouse faster than any other on the Upper West Side over $10M. I live with my wife and daughter on the Upper West Side, the neighborhood I have called home for the past 23 y
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
The Vero Beach Show
Known as the "Hamptons of the South" and as Florida's "Treasure Coast" Vero Beach is a 28-mile island connected by three bridges to the mainland. About 90 minutes southeast of Orlando, and 90 minutes north of Palm Beach, Vero Beach is served by its own airport with 26 direct flights a day (most importantly for New Yorkers to Newark and Westchester County). There are 15,220 people across 7,505 households of which 16% have children at home. The largest employer is Piper Aircraft in a city known mainly for tourism. And, as of 2021 the city hosts 14 private golf clubs and is the historic home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, "Historic Dodgertown".
So, why Vero Beach? That's what we want to know. This week we dig in for an in-depth conversation with Vero Beach's top realtor Sally Daley of The Daley Group and top builder Bob McNally of Palm Coast Development to understand the market, where it's been during the covid years and where it's heading.
As Palm Beach prices skyrocket (average $3.3 million, $1600 per foot) is the same true in Vero Beach ($1.2 million, $504 per foot) or is this a secret waiting to be discovered?
Are values in Vero Beach one big hurricane away from "correcting" or has building technology improved to the point where we can say these luxury homes can handle it?
At the end of 2021, some economists were calling the Florida market overheated and overvalued by 40%. But other economists are saying that covid changed everything, that the new work-from-anywhere economy means Florida is no longer only for tourism. Where does Vero Beach see itself in the future?
Sally Daley
Known for marketing savvy, boundless energy, and an ability to merge creativity with analytics, Sally is consistently among Indian River County’s top producers and has represented buyers, developers, and sellers of properties on the river, ocean, and in between at virtually all price points. In her 15-year real estate career, she has amassed sales well in excess of five hundred and fifteen million dollars.
Her dedication to research and data analytics, relentless following of the markets, and her encyclopedic knowledge of the real estate market and Indian River County make her a truly unequaled advocate for her clients. Sally’s data-backed and research-based approach stand-alone in Indian River County.
Prior to her career in real estate, Sally owned a public relations + marketing firm just north of New York City. Her firm provided services for high-profile clients like Citibank, Hyatt Hotels, Champion Paper, Nine West Shoes, and The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, among others.
Bob McNally is the CEO at Palm Coast Development. His company is unique in that it combines architecture, interior decors, and construction as the main functions of a full-service integrated business. It has built significant landmark projects and high-end residences in Vero Beach and Stuart, Florida over the past 15 years.
The McNallys hail from Morris County, New Jersey where Robert was the CEO of a major construction firm that was involved in the acquisition, planning, and construction of major communities involving well over 5,600 homes and 1,000,000 square feet of Class A office space.
Having been involved in over a billion dollars worth of construction projects the company decided to form an Architecture and Interiors studio so that it could concentrate on custom projects; homes, small communities, mixed-use projects, condominiums, and Class A commercial projects.
John Engel - John Engel can be found at http://www.JohnEngel.com.
Scott Hobbs - Scott can be found at http://www.HobbsInc.com.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
The Martha's Vineyard Show
Martha's Vineyard has a reputation for being a popular and affluent summer community with fabulous beaches and authentic New England charm. Who is coming to Martha's Vineyard, and why? And how has that changed? As New York area realtors we want to know why Martha's Vineyard is not like other affluent beachy communities like the Hamptons or its island neighbors Nantucket and Block Island.
- Martha's Vineyard is 96 square miles, compared to 70 in East Hampton (including east to Montauk). Block Island is only 9.7 square miles (and 40% of that is protected land conservation.) Nantucket island is 47 square miles.
- 17,000 people call the Vineyard home, but the populations swells to 200,000 in-season. Compare that to 28,000 in East Hampton, and 14,000 in Nantucket swelling to 50,000.
- the median listing on Nantucket is $3.9 million, and so much more affordable on the Vineyard at only $1.9 million in Edgartown and $1.3 million in Vineyard Haven. In East Hampton the median listing is $2.3 million.
- in 1974 Steven Spielberg filmed the movie Jaws on Martha's Vineyard and the island now celebrates with an annual "Jawsfest"
- there are 19 beaches on the island. What percentage of them are public versus private?
- President Bill Clinton, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have been coming to Martha's Vineyard since the 1990's.
- President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama used to vacation here at Blue Heron Farm and decided to settle here permanently when they purchased 30 acres in 2019.
Who are the people who come for the summer, and what do they find there in summer?
How does the community change in the off-season?
How has the pandemic changed the community, and what is predicted?
Tell us about the luxury and exclusive neighborhoods of Martha's Vineyard, and do they attract anyone besides ex-Presidents?
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Britt Bast of MVLandVest in Edgartown
Britt has been a Real Estate Professional since 2010 and was thoroughly prepared for a career in the Real Estate Industry, having a mother who was a Realtor and a Father who was a residential Home Builder, giving her a well-rounded and extensive pool of experience to pull from within her own family. Britt is native to Fairfield County, CT and splits her time between there and her office in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard.
Cheri Mason of MVLandVest Cheri is a Connecticut native that came to the Island of Martha’s Vineyard permanently in 2008. Her corporate sales career started in the mobile computing industry working with Fortune 500 companies throughout the East Coast. Her relationship skills, professionalism and sales ability brought her to LandVest to pursue real estate with the Island’s most reputable firm.
John Engel - John Engel can be found at http://www.JohnEngel.com
Roberto Cabrera - Roberto can be found at http://www.RobertoCabrera.com