Homemade sweets to say “thank you” Every year, we host a dessert party to thank our clients and friends for their business and for trusting us with their referrals. This year’s dessert party menu This year, we made a bunch of recipes we’ve never made before and stuck with a few of our favorites. I […]
Digs hit a huge milestone last week: we have given over $4,000,000 in commission discounts and rebates to our clients since 2014! February 5th was a HUGE day for Digs Realty. Not only was it me and Dan’s 9th anniversary, but it marked the day we officially gave our clients over $4MM in commission rebates […]
No More Rental Fees in NYC? There are still rental fees in NYC, but the new guidance is pretty huge for the residential real estate community: landlords, agents and renters! The Facts On Tuesday, the New York Department of State issued Guidance that a landlord’s agent cannot be compensated by a prospective tenant. The DOS suggests […]
Best Value NYC Neighborhoods | Where is There Still Room to Grow? 10 NYC Neighborhoods Where Home Prices Rose the Most in 2010-2019 At the end of 2019, Streeteasy reported that 8 of the 10 NYC neighborhoods where home prices rose the most in the decade of the 2010s were in Brooklyn. This is not […]
Mortgage Assignments and the CEMA (Consolidation, Extension and Modification Agreement) Back in 2017, Dan wrote a post about CEMAs. Fast forward a couple of years to 2020, and many players in the residential real estate market (including many real estate brokers) still don’t know what a CEMA is. For this reason, we’re writing another post […]
It’s a buyer’s market. Should you sell? Pretty much everyone is in agreement that today’s market is more favorable for buyers. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t sell now, but it does mean that you should be mindful and realistic about how much you will sell for. In this post, we will share with you […]
The Death of Fairway Market | Impact on UWS I’ve been reading a lot of articles today about what is going to happen to Fairway Market. We heard rumors over the past few weeks that Fairway might file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and close its stores. This morning, the Post put out an article, and […]
Digs in Vermont Every year over MLK weekend, we take a road trip and head to Vermont. We rent a big house near Okemo Mountain with lots of beds and get a great group of friends together for a long weekend of skiing, snowball fights, food, wine and hot tubbing. This year in Vermont We […]
A smarter way to sell | Digs Realty broker commission discounts One of our biggest challenges is educating home sellers that our commission discount model exists. Most people are not aware that they can hire a real estate broker to sell their home who charges a fraction of the commission traditional brokers charge. Digs has […]
Digs in Panama While Digs operates solely in New York, we have many friends and clients outside New York who are very good to us who we try to see periodically (so they don’t forget about us). Why Panama? As we have written about before, every year on Thanksgiving, we host a charity auction. All […]