In title insurance, a business where client acquisition is typically based on relationships and referrals and not on impulse buying or online shopping, is any expense incurred trying to ‘brand’ a firm actually worth it? At Hallmark Abstract Service we think that it is! This is because it’s our desire to try and differentiate and highlight the […]
Heroes To Heroes Foundation Helps Veterans Who Have Served In Combat And Are Now Suffering With PTSD, Moral Injury And Traumatic Brain Injury, Begin To Heal! Heroes To Heroes Foundation, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3), successfully accomplishes this by utilizing a unique program that combines spirituality with peer support through non-denominational trips to Israel, where the veterans find the strength […]
Negatively of course if you are an apartment owner or developer and positively if you are a prospective tenant! Economics 101: More supply in the face of steady or even declining demand, regardless of the product, will lead to lower prices! Of course in the category of luxury Manhattan rental apartments, there are other variables […]
On September 24 at MetLife Stadium the New York Urban League (NYUL) will be holding its 43rd Annual Football Classic pitting Morgan State University against Howard University! This past week I was invited to an event at MetLife Stadium by Nkrumah Pierre that he was hosting with the New York Urban League. The dual purpose was to highlight […]
With the New York Yankees opening at home Monday against the Houston Astros two things are certain! The first is that a great many New Yorkers will be playing hooky from work or school to make the 1:05 PM start of the Opening Day game (although temperatures forecast in the 40’s with a chance of snow […]
Real Estate, School Districts And Teachers Often when homebuyers with children, or those who are planning on having children, make a choice concerning towns to consider purchasing in the quality of the school district will loom large in their list of criteria. Using that logic it would stand to reason that many (although not all) of […]
In a study the New York City subway map earned the title of the “most complex metropolitan system in the world”! And for anyone, whether a NYC native or a tourist who is trying to figure out how to move from the Bronx to Brooklyn or Queens to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, this ‘victory’ by […]
The US Treasury Departments Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to begin tracking high-end real estate sales! FinCEN Takes Aim at Real Estate Secrecy in Manhattan and Miami “Geographic Targeting Orders” Require Identification for High–End Cash Buyers WASHINGTON – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued Geographic Targeting Orders (GTO) that will temporarily require certain U.S. […]
Summary: Will 2016 be a repeat of 2015 or…Taking out the crystal ball, what do you suppose that we can we expect from the New York City residential real estate market in 2016? Using any variety of metrics, 2015 was a very good year for the New York City residential real estate market! That is actually […]
Summary: Real estate and stocks have been doing very well but… Economics 101 says we should have inflation after the amount of money the Federal Reserve has put into the system! But we don’t and this article explains why… The global central banks have injected many trillions of dollars into their given economies looking for […]
