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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s house on the market

Posted on September 21, 2012 | 1 comment

Sarah Jessica Parker and her lovely husband Matthew Broderick (or Ferris for friends) have done quite the house flip. They put down $18.995 million for a Greenwich Village Redstone townhouse and now put it back on the market for $24.995 million. That is quite the increase and would make for a lovely profit to enhance their already comfortable means…. There’s some debate as to what exactly they did with the place as even the art in the pictures is the same from an original listing back in 2009, but it sure looks nice enough to me!

SJP’ townhouse Greenwich Village

Interior shots of Sarah Jessica parker’s house flip

More interior shots of Sarah Jessica Parker’s house flip

The floor plans show that there are 7 bedrooms, including one in the garden room right by the kitchen. Great for a maid or au-pair! 5 full, and 3 half baths make for enough to not to worry about standing in line in the morning. The kitchen looks great. But the two back bedrooms on the third floor look odd to say the least. The entire fourth floor is reserved for the master bed, bath and his-n-hers walk in wardrobes.

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videotour of NYC’s most expensive penthouse at $100 million

Posted on August 15, 2012 | 1 comment

Not sure how the Dutch saying ‘Baas boven baas’ translates to English, but the $65 million apartment in an earlier post has met its match. The penthouse in the video below is on the market for $100 million… the most expensive listing the city has ever seen….

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Realtors for shame!

Posted on August 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

In january 2009, in an article about how not to present your home when selling, I wrote about a detached 30’s style home close to Amsterdam. It has everything going for it. Close to the city, large garden, great lay-out, views, dead-end street etc. The decor is hideous, but the current owners will take that with them. Lick of paint, maybe a new floor and some finishing touches here and there, and the house is as blank a canvas as any other.

You can imagine my frustration when I saw the pictures the realtor put up. Closed curtains, shady shots of storage rooms, cluttered bathrooms etc. To top it all off; the realtor added floor plans of a different house! And I still think that the little convertible on the drive way is the realtor’s. Parked as a getaway car: “I’ll just run in, take a few shots and that’s it”.

No surprise that three years down the line the house is still on the market. It looks very unappealing and

For shame! Even if your clients refuse to take any advice, there is no excuse for the way you present it online. And how hard can it be to add the right floor plans!

American abandoned houses

Posted on August 9, 2012 | 1 comment

There is something eerie about abandoned homes. Especially if parts of the inhabited past is still there, like furniture, curtains or other traces of the times when people called it home. Photographer Kevin Baumann photographed a 100 of them. Each of them with a story that the spectator is left to guess or fantasize about. Was it the crunch that drove the occupants away? Or did they die alone with no family left to take care of their homes? I love this series.