Thinking your first home purchase should be outside the city? You're not alone (but read this first)

… choose to abandon their city buying plans continue renting here and buying outside the city instead The upsides … to 4 percent The bank didnt look at it as a secondhome purchase he writes because they didnt own their first home But our experts say if youre filing your tax returns in …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |April 7, 2017 - 9:59AM
Any regrets? A check-in with a first-time buyer who chronicled her agonizing apartment-hunt for Brick

… for us years ago in our Diary of a FirstTime Buyer column Elle Bee not her real name spent two years of onandoff again … attorneys and three brokers and recorded it all for us Elle ended upspoiler alertbuying a onebedroom in a prewar … more limiting than I thought In terms of the neighborhood Elle says she probably wouldnt choose to live there again …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |April 6, 2017 - 12:59PM
Real-life buyers on the mistakes they made and what they learned from buying in NYC for the first time

… Upper East Side I would ask the prior owner for records of renovations We have been the victim of a lot of doityourself home improvements from nonexperts and we have spent the last … extra tax and maintenance for it Kathy Upper East Side … Be renovationready … Find out the rules and restrictions and …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |April 6, 2017 - 8:59AM