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‘Faster than you can keep up’: the highs, lows, and hustle of NYC housing brokers | New York
When Keyan Sanai moved to Manhattan and started working as a real estate broker in 2014, he was eating 12 to 15 cans of tuna a week to keep costs low. “I said to my friend, ‘My mouth tastes like a fistful of old pennies all the time,’” he says. After a doctor’s visit, he found out he had mercury poisoning. His first few years as a broker were rough. Working at a “boiler room” brokerage, he got acquainted with what he calls the “dark underbelly” of the industry. “The script is basically to lie to people: ‘Put up [an ad] that says ‘no fee’, and once you get ’em…
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Chicago real estate market: Near South Side properties are gaining value, selling faster than those on Near North Side: data
CHICAGO (WLS) — An evaluation of house values reveals new insight about the actual estate marketplace on Chicago’s South Side, which is also dwelling to some of the city’s premier new development designs. Alexandra Roman and Justin Zamarripa not too long ago married soon after conference at perform on a job together. Then they bought their very first dwelling, a apartment in Bronzeville. “We ended up initially likely to present a thing less than the record value but the moment we realized that there was so significantly opposition to get this place, we upped it higher than the inquiring price,” Zamarripa reported. “It was a ton,” Roman mentioned. “It was…
