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Hello! I hope this finds you well. I wanted to let you know that I recently switched firms and I am now working at Nest Seekers International. I am primarily focusing on sales these days but remain well educated on the NYC rental market. Please feel free to contact me should you be looking for a new home. Also, please feel free to refer any friends who are looking to buy, sell or rent. I would be happy to help with all their real estate needs. Best regards, Ivie Clifford iviec@nestseekers.com Nest Seekers INTERNATIONAL   Manhattan * LIC * Brooklyn * Miami * Hamptons * Beverly Hills * International 415 Madison Avenue NY,  NY 10017 M  + 917.755.2527  F   + 212.252.9347

Helpful article today in BrickUnderground on “Top Negotiating Mistakes of Sellers and Their Brokers” (3-part series). Check out the Kevin/Spire quotes:

Top negotiating mistakes of sellers and their brokers | BrickUnderground www.brickunderground.com We've already covered the top blunders buyers can make during the negotiation process, but what about sellers (and their brokers)? Here are some of the worst, from the experts. 1. Don't blab about personal information This negotiating gaffe is typically committed by the seller’s agent--though buttoning your own lips may be the best way to prevent it. “A seller’s broker needs to keep a lot of the personal reasons for selling confidential, because a well-prepared buyer’s broker will use all such information against the sellers when negotiating,” says Rodrigo Guzman of Rutenberg Realty. Though it violates a selling broker's fiduciary responsibility to the seller, brokers leak personal information “often,” says Victoria Shtainer of Prudential Douglas Elliman.  “The sellers are getting divorced. The owner lost his job. They need to move because of job relocation....As soon as I hear that, I think, ‘Desperate.’ I can negotiate and I can low ball." 2. Don't take a lowball offer as an insult—or fail to respond to one Yes, this sounds suspiciously like broker spin, but worth mentioning as it was by far the most repeated lament of the brokers we spoke to--and really, what have you got to lose by seeing if you can get a low offer up to an acceptable level? “Probably 75 to 85% of lowball offers end up being the deals that get done, and they get done within 5 to 10% of list price,” says Ariel Cohen of Prudential Douglas Elliman. Moral of the story: Always counter a lowball offer—even if your counter is your asking price. “This shows a willingness to say, ‘I am serious about my price,’” says Brad Malow of Rutbenberg Realty. “’Please come back with a bit more of a serious offer.’” 3. Don't make a counteroffer that’s too small   While sticking to your asking price can be an appropriately strategic response to a lowball offer, counteroffers that are too small risk backfiring. When responding to an initial offer, a reduction of less than 1% of the asking price (for example, a $5,000 reduction on an $800k asking price) “is actually an insult to the buyer” that may drive him or her away, says Bevan Versfeld of Rutenberg Realty, whereas a reduction of 1 to 3% “shows your willingness to play ball.” 4. Don't focus exclusively on price If you’re deadlocked on price, it’s time to get creative. There’s a lot more to a real estate deal than sticker price. “The seller wants to sell,” says Malow, so “what are the other issues that might be adjusted to yield a common ground? Closing costs? The purchasing timeline? Adding or dropping contingencies?” 5. Don't accept the first offer as is It’s a buyer’s market, but it’s still a negotiation. Accept the first offer as is and you may be leaving money on the table, says Kevin Kurland of The Spire Group.

13. Hell’s Roofdeck

(54th to 60th Streets, Tenth to Eleventh Avenues)

Because it’s a no-man’s-land no longer.

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  By S.Jhoanna Robledo 
• Published Apr 3, 2011

(Photo: Courtesy of Extell Development Center)

Despite being sequestered in the heretofore nameless netherland behind the Time Warner Center, the blocks north of Hell’s Kitchen have begun morphing into a luxury corridor of sorts, replete with rentals and condos in buildings gilded with all sorts of amenities. (It seems only right that Urbani Truffles, the Italian supplier of fancified funghi, chose to open their American flagship here.) Donald Trump’s march southward on Riverside Boulevard has been leapfrogged by Extell and its army of gleaming residential towers. Last December, the City Council approved the developer’s plans to build Riverside Center on eight acres hugging the waterfront, with five glassy high-rises stocked with market-rate and affordable housing, a movie theater, a school, a hotel, and nearly three acres of parkland.


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Neighborhood Series Part 2 - Gramercy/Flatiron

Serene and upscale, the Gramercy Park neighborhood was named for the elegant one-square-block park of the same name created by Samuel B. Ruggles in 1831. Its clean streets stretch from 20th Street until the start of Murray Hill at 34th Street, and are bordered by the East River and Park Avenue to the west. The townhouses around the park, built before the Civil War, are among the oldest and most outstanding in the city, and many tend to be handed down through the generations. Highly desirable for its classic architecture and close proximity to fine dining and shopping, Gramercy Park.

The Flatiron District is bounded on the north by the triangular Flatiron building (known as the Fuller Building, which was built in 1902, at the corner of 23rd Street), goes south to 15th Street, extends as far east as Park Avenue South and west to Sixth Avenue. Union Square sits on the southern boundary of the Flatiron neighborhood. At the time it was built, the Flatiron building was New York City's first skyscraper, and thought not only to be the tallest building in the world, but also the first skyscraper ever created. Today the neighborhood is booming with abundant restaurants, shopping, and convenience.

Boundaries

14th St. to 34th St., East River to Broadway.

Subway Station

L to First Ave. | L to Third Ave. | 4,5,6,N,Q,R,W,L to Union Square | 6 to 23rd St.| R,W, to 23rd St. | R,W to 28th St. | 6 to 28th St. | B,D,F,N,Q,R,W,V to 34th St.-Herald Sq.| 6 to 33rd St.

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