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I have been positive on NYC since people started writing it off a year ago – I guess everyone knows that by now. You may find this hard to believe, but I think I missed the biggest reason for positivity.  And…

Read More New York City is a Power Niche

So it seems like there is a decent chance that the tax on capital gains will swing to 40% from 20%, or something close to that.  So my Opp Zone partners and I were kicking around how this would affect Opportunity…

Read More Opportunity Zones – Taxes – Duval & Stachenfeld OZ Hub Taking Off

Right now, interest rates – and inflation – have been tame for so long that I wonder if we are not really considering a possible imminent outcome, which is that due to all the government spending, inflation goes kind of…

Read More What if Inflation Goes Crazy?

Alas, I am not as famous as Seinfeld (at least not yet), but we said the same things about NYC only a few months ago, and it is starting to look like we have a solid point. To start out by…

Read More Seinfeld, The Real Estate Philosopher, and NYC, Oh My!

Hello, real estate friends.  Welcome to 2021.  I am guessing you might feel a sense of relief that 2020 is over with.  COVID is still circulating and as awful as ever – and actually worse than ever - but at…

Read More Predictions and Trends for 2021

Here is a thought piece from your Real Estate Philosopher that I am confident you will “like” even if you think I am dead wrong.  In brief, I will stick my neck out to say:             2021 Will Be A Boom…

Read More 2021 Will be a Boom Year for Real Estate

No, I haven't lost my mind. Or if I have, I am not cognizant of it. Let me get right into it. Retail has been pasted as possibly the "worst" asset class right now. There are words like "Zombie Malls"…

Read More Time to Look Seriously at Retail! / Announcing our Win/Win Retail Hub

At the worst part of the COVID pandemic panic, I said that the US would not only recover but experience a Big V Recovery, which was a phrase I coined.   I made this prediction not once but multiple times in multiple articles…

Read More Big V Redux – Was I Right?

"The office is dead," say the headlines all over the place. Seriously? That is what I am hearing. Since clients and others keep asking me what I think about this, I will weigh in. I have a few thoughts to start with:      …

Read More The Office, As We Know It, Is Dead? No, It Isn’t – Not One Bit!

Perhaps my biggest defect as a predictor of the future is that at heart, I am sometimes too optimistic. Maybe it is my natural contrarian instinct not to fall prey to the media’s irrepressible spirit to seek out and promulgate…

Read More Buy New York City Now! And Lend, Invest, Lease Here as Well