In The News...


NYTimes -  Making Every Pixel Count and here it is in a simple video
From NAR - Total existing-home sales rose 0.6 percent
NAR - Home sales during the rest of the year will be lower than earlier projections
Annual Harvard Housing Study Says Expect No Major Decline
NY Yankee pitches new steak house in New Rochelle OPEN 7.13.06
Rye beats Greenwich on Forbes list 
New law in effect for home inspectors in NY
New commission for Greenwich waters
Here is more on Home Staging - increasing value up to $20,000
Postal rates are going up
More records set for Rye....now its commercial
Rye residents worried their apartment complex is going condo
Cops looking to keep drunken drivers in check
Pressure increases on Lower Hudson neighborhood moviehouses
Media claims about a "housing bubble" are nothing new....Now that the market for homes has finally slowed a bit, the media are declaring the bubble has burst.
Diamonds are dazzling, but homeowners and prospective buyers may be more impressed with gifts of granite and stainless steel.
The Home Builders Association of Connecticut has announced the 2005 home building industry awards
Afforable Housing Proposal Goes Another Round.Darien couple to bring affordable housing to Nearwater Lane.
Berman Feted in Adopted Hometown. Chris Berman is used to it by now. His face has become the hallmark of ESPN.
NEW ROCHELLE - Developer Louis Cappelli is seeking some $3.6 million in mortgage and sales tax relief while building the downtown residential and retail tower Trump Plaza
A contract to acquire the Highland Hall Apartments in Rye, New York has been signed by a group of New Yorkers
Approaching the bench in Judge Joan O. Cooney's courtroom yesterday was ....rows of dressed-up children waiting for their adoptions to become official.
Greenwich officials say they will not approve a long-delayed Pemberwick residential complex ... the developer is charging too much for the complex's affordable housing units.
 Westchester County is proposing to buy the staff residence at the shuttered New York United Hospital Medical Center
Port Chester cineplex opens Friday
SLEEPY HOLLOW -  the developer of the former General Motors plant has cut the size of the mixed-used community it wants to build along the Hudson River.
10/21/05 - Lily's Path is one of the more recent multimillion-dollar condominium complexes rising in the Milbank Avenue area of downtown Greenwich
Real Estate Mania in Westchester Magazine
Downtown Stamford has become an enticing place to live
The New New Rochelle - The classic Westchester suburb is being reinvented: less Laura Petrie, more Carrie Bradshaw
New London woman asks Congress to step into eminent domain case.
Unique contemporary for sale in Harrison
 It's a Sears, Roebuck and Co. house, ordered from a catalog and shipped by rail to be assembled on site. Now for sale for almost a Million!

This is a must read   http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/  OCTOBER 2004!

Stretching space: Creating bathrooms in small places
 Realtors form foundation for Katrina victims
Spotlight on Eastchesters' Lake Isle
Greenwich, Architects move into construction; agents seek independence
Don't be greedy with asking price...Three months later, he hadn't gotten a nibble, much less a full price offer.
The historically hot housing market will inevitably slow, with a possible decline in home prices and consumer spending, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said this weekend.
Home buyers keep moving north..."I paid half the price for a tremendous house,"
GEs Dredging of the Hudson River will begin in May 2006 and continue into October. ..... dredging must occur 24 hours a day, six days a week.
The supercharged real estate market momentum of last year could not continue forever..... But prices continued to move up everywhere.
The famed Nyack mansion known as "Pretty Penny" is on the market for the second time since May, but the $7.5 million asking price may make it a tougher sale this time around.
4th District Gets $93 Million For Transit....U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) was scheduled yesterday to travel to Connecticut to talk about the new transportation funding for the state..
The First Home Club provides subsidies to assist very low- and low-income households overcome the financial difficulties of purchasing a home.
"How can I get your food into my home?" It was this frequent question from his diners that prompted Polpo owner Ron Rosa to develop Polpo Out.
The median price of single-family houses in Westchester County reached a crowning $700,000 in the second quarter of 2005
 Stamford shopping plaza set to open this summer off Route 1 By Peter Healy
Whose home inspection is most reliable? Many sellers ordering pre-sale reports; buyers wonder who to trust By Dian Hymer Inman News
Stamford Some Avalons may go condo
Summer slows down area real estate market
New Rochelle - New London - High court ruling stirs IKEA battle memories
Housing Bubble -- or Bunk?  Are home prices soaring unsustainably and due for plunge? A group of experts takes a look -- and come to very different conclusions. Businessweek.com
Parents learned a lesson after attending college orientation: It wasn't a financial option.
Children in more than 3,000 schools across the country raised more than $4.7 million for Save the Children's tsunami relief
The Fed chief rejected the fears of some analysts that a nationwide housing "bubble" exists that could bring down the economy if it bursts
Byram burns the midnight oil at new java joint
Hearings tomorrow on air quality in Westchester
$22M asking price sets New Canaan record  A new asking price record for a single-family home actively on the market.
Is It Time To Buy Or Sell in Real Estate?  When Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan used the word "froth" in connection with the current real-estate market last week, he was rather late to the party