DISC Fever
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyIn last Friday’s Wall Street Journal, an article appeared describing the high correlation between Machiavellian behavior and success in the real...
View ArticleFastidious For Footage
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg Realty“What’s the square footage?” These words strike fear into the hearts of co-op agents for a number of reasons. First and foremost, no one really...
View ArticleAnxious About Appraisals
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyGradually, the national housing market has moved into recovery. Absorption and housing starts are up. But in spite of expectations to the...
View ArticleThe Future’s a Mystery…Or Is It?
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyI spent Sunday afternoon at a wedding in West Orange, New Jersey, from which I had a wonderful broad panoramic view of the Manhattan skyline. It...
View ArticleTech Tips and Common Sense
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyI have spent the last three days at the National Association of Realtors conference in Orlando, Florida. Although I am no fan of Orlando, which...
View ArticleGiving Thanks 2012
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyThis year there will be 39 hungry attendees at our house for Thanksgiving. As we move furniture around and I roll endless pie crusts, I am...
View ArticleThe Nature of Negotiation
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyLast Monday night I taught a negotiating class to a group of senior agents at The Real Estate Board of New York with a banker friend with...
View ArticleLiving The Dream
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyHaving spent a few days in London earlier this week, I was reminded of that peculiarity of the British system of real estate ownership: the...
View ArticleA Leap of Faith Into a New Reality
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyAlthough I am the grandson of retailers, bankers, and businessmen, I did not expect to go into business myself. As most of you know, I thought I...
View ArticleFiscal Fitness
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyWill we drive over the fiscal cliff? Whether we do or not taxes and tax breaks are likely to be reconfigured in 2013. So what are the...
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Warburg Realty Fourth Quarter 2012 Market Review
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyDuring the last quarter of 2012, the New York real estate market buzzed with activity. An extraordinary culmination to an already strong year,...
View ArticleBoard Business 2013
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg Realty“Can I get into the building?” In recent years I hear that question more and more from anxious buyers of New York City co-ops, who have all read...
View ArticleNowhere To Go
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyFor brokers and buyers alike, 2013 may shape up to be the year of fewer real estate alternatives. In both the Manhattan and Brooklyn markets,...
View ArticleNeighborhood Watch
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyMy wife and I moved into our apartment on Central Park West in 1977. At that time we and three other couples were the first young people to have...
View ArticleBack To The Future
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyLast Thursday a couple of my downtown Warburg agents held a first open house for their new multi-million dollar loft exclusive in Tribeca. The...
View ArticleYes and No
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyThe co-op Board experience, largely unique to the New York area and, to a smaller degree, to Chicago, presents more challenges to broker, buyer,...
View ArticleDon’t Shoot The Messenger
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyPrivacy is much harder to come by than it used to be. With all the major newspapers and websites featuring significant sales on a daily or...
View ArticleIs it “Just” Business?
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg Realty“It’s just business.” For all the times I have heard those words uttered, I still do not really understand what they mean. Does that mean that...
View ArticleI Meant What I Said and I Said What I Meant
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyThis week one of my agents was involved in a competitive bidding situation for an apartment in Brooklyn. Her buyer won the bidding TWICE, and...
View ArticleAre Prices Crazy?
Courtesy of Frederick Peters, President of Warburg RealtyAt a recent meeting at the Real Estate Board, the smart, extremely successful developer sitting next to me asked, “How’s business?” He then...
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