New York Real Estate Blog

In this economy, with a suppressed real estate market, how would you sell your house fast?

1. Make the house look good from the outside so that people passing buy who see your “For Sale” sign would want to drop in.

2. Your house should be sparkling clean to leave a good first impression. Make sure to take care of your garden as well.

3. The style of your home should resemble what most people would want it to be. Sure, your style may be nicer and more unique, but the goal isn’t for you to like your house, but rather to get it to sell quickly. Avoid personal accents.

4. Consider painting your walls and redoing your floors. For a relatively small expense, it can really improve people’s impression of your house. Choose sophisticated, neutral colors.

5. The home should look gender-neutral to appeal to both men and women.

6. If you have large closets, open them so that people can see them. If you have a nice view, make sure the windows aren’t covered by shades.

7. If you have a small home, show the potential buyers how they can use all the nooks and crannies of the home to really maximize the space.

8. If you have a large home, then put an accent on how spacious it relaly is.

9. Make sure there are no odors from food, dogs or anything else.

10. Display the outdoor space and explain how it can be used by both adults and children.

The number of apartments available for sale in New York City dropped almost 35%, the steepest drop in a dozen years, while at the same time, the number of actual sales went up 6.3%. to 4,960 listings in the first three months of the year — the largest year-over-year decline in 12 years. Luxury brands in real estate, such as Trump and well-known properties along the Central Park have been particularly hard to acquire since the start of 2013, but the demand is higher even among the cheap apartments. In Manhattan, during the first three months of the year, prices went up 26.8% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year.

It used to be said that East Side is for the successful and the West Side is near-abandoned in some places. Not anymore. Since 1985, there has been a boom on Manhattan’s West Side, with 64% of the buildings built west of the 7th avenue coming up since that year.

Eighth Avenue now hold the largest concentration of the new real estate inventory in Manhattan, with the New York Times being one of many high profile tenants on that side of the island. The major neighborhoods on the West Side – Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, Upper West Side, Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, West Village, SoHo and Tribeca – have all seen an incredible amount of new construction with prices often matching and sometimes exceeding similar, but older buildings on the East Side.

The proposed, but rejected West Side Stadium.