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A few fun things that caught my attention this week:
🌈 Happy Pride weekend!! I’ll be taking it easy and staying in BK, but my many years of cheering on the parade means I have a couple tricks up my sleeve. Here’s the route—text me if you want any recs on where to go or what to do!
👕 Thom Browne is one of my favorite designers and his recent runway show in Milan was jaw dropping. Digging these looks big time. Which one is your fave?
🖼️ Love this portrait so much. Will be making a trip to see it!
🍅 I love Ingas, so am very excited to try this new Boerum Hill spot. The food looks fantastic.
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Hot Homes 💡
Here's something most agents miss: the sale doesn't start with a house. It starts with a question.
I recently sat down with my lovely clients who found themselves at a crossroads. They thought they had to make a decision on selling, but the more we talked, the more I realized the question they were asking wasn't the real one.
So I asked the ones that were. Do you love this home? This city? Where do you see yourselves and your family in five years? Then we crunched the numbers: what’s the financial payoff for keeping this home versus selling? What could the liquidity unlock somewhere else?
That conversation is how I came to represent one of the most beautiful homes I've had the privilege to list: a showstopping Park Slope townhouse that I'm genuinely a little obsessed with.
There’s 5,000 SF across four floors with windows and natural light pouring in from all four exposures. It’s a freestanding Park Slope unicorn, truly. My favorite amenity is the rooftop: a covered loggia, a sun terrace, and a full wet bar made for your summer hosting era.
I had a lot of fun prepping this home and bringing it to market. From staging to photoshoots with the ultra-talented Haley Ellenday to my first attempt at drone footage and the mailers and online buzz, this was a labor of love.
But my not-so-secret secret: I bring the same all-out effort to every home. Whether it's $600K or $6M, my clients get the works. Because my system is never about the price tag. It's about the people.
I just know this home is going to make someone very, very happy.
Ask the (RE) Expert 🏡
This has come up on two of my listings, so it’s a timely question. A sale contingency means you'll buy the new home, but only once your current home sells. If yours doesn't sell in the agreed window, there’s no deal.
This offer can work well in a slower market. If a home's been sitting, your contingent offer might be a seller's best bet. But contingency offers aren’t going to win in a hot market. I received a contingency offer on a recent listing and it went to the bottom of the pile—they’re a hard sell when someone else is ready now.
What’s interesting is that we’re receiving contingency offers at all. The market used to move too fast for buyers to even try, but nowadays we’re starting to see them trickle in again—which is a sign of a changing market.
My advice: buyers, lean on your agent to know your competition before you ask. Sellers, look hard at your offer pile before you say no.
Got a real estate head-scratcher? Reply and I’ll answer it next time! 😉
Trivia
Photo cred: Stephanie Keith for BK Mag
In honor of this weekend’s Pride, do you know which Brooklyn neighborhood hosts the borough's annual Pride street festival?
Park Slope
Williamsburg
Fort Greene
The answer is at the bottom of this email!
Listing I’m Lovin’ 🌈
This Pride, I'm celebrating the NYC neighborhoods that have always celebrated us. From the Stonewall stomping grounds of the West Village to the heart of Hell's Kitchen (my former neighborhood, which will always have a place in my heart!) to my beloved Park Slope, here are three homes in three corners of our history.
1 Bed, 1 bath | $1,799,000 | West Village | Scott Hustis
It feels right to start with a listing in the West Village, where the movement did. This turnkey junior-4 sits on the 17th floor with 360-degree views, but it's the Hudson River views and sunsets that'll get you.
1 bed, 1 bath | $995,000 | Hells Kitchen | Nathan Bradshaw
Full disclosure: I'm biased about Hell's Kitchen, because I called it home for years. This bright one-bedroom is one of the largest layouts in the building, with floor-to-ceiling windows, a quartz waterfall island, and a spa-inspired bath with a rainfall shower.
3 bed, 1 bath | $1,595,000 | Park Slope | Grant Braswell
This bright pre-war floor-through co-op in Park Slope has all the charm you'd want: original pocket doors, a working woodburning fireplace with the prettiest original mantel, and a rambling layout with rooms to spare. Three blocks from Prospect Park, half a block from PS 321, and tucked on one of the quietest, leafiest blocks in the borough.
To all my Buyers, Sellers, or Renters looking to make moves, let’s make it happen!
I’ll be back in your inbox in two weeks.
P.S. The trivia answer is A), the parade happens in Park Slope—specifically along 5th Ave.
