MLS Real Estate & Listings Blog

I left my old corporate job, with its lovely 401(k) that offered cushy matching funds, in 2005.

The year after was such a financial disaster — I piled on credit-card debt like, well, a sailor on shore leave with a fistful of credit cards — that I didn’t make any retirement contributions at all.

But now, I am doing my 2007 taxes, and (huzzah!) I get to be responsible again. That means I’m making a contribution to my retirement funds.  more…

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I have a new listing on the market and it’s generating a lot of excitement — a few dozen visitors in the first week and a half it’s been listed. As a result, I have not only seen clients in various shapes and sizes, I have also seen just about every style of buyer’s broker imaginable. In a world where the listing is in play (and people don’t necessarily know that they’re going to be written about) I don’t want to be too specific, but here are some composite impressions that might be helpful to buyers and buyer’s brokers everywhere.  more…

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I have a new listing for a $2 million, two-bedroom condo in SoHo. For those of you who don’t live in the amusement park that is Manhattan, let me assure you that that is cheap, and I have been showing — so far by appointment only — like crazy. By the time my first week ends, I will have had a dozen showings, including one second showing, before I even get to my open house.  more…

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I met Alice Heiman, as I have done so many serendipitous things, online. (Longtime readers of this column will know that’s how I met my husband.) A sales coach — whose background is in sales training, so she has "trained the trainers" — she is based in Reno, Nev., where she offers some of the best advice for salespeople I have ever seen.  more…

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