Whether you coming from Brooklyn and need to know more about Staten Island has to offer, or you're looking for the history of some Staten Island landmarks? Or maybe just a Staten Islander wanting to know more about the history of the neighborhood? We have been compiling some of the best local information on places across New York City's outermost borough.
We always felt it was imperative for us to provide the best information available about what this great borough has to offer. Whether it's exploring Seguine Mansion and Alice Austin House, while learning about the neighborhood of Great Kills or New Dorp, we are putting people in the know.
I found it amazing that some Staten island’s more popular lakes like Silver Lake and Grasmere Lake were used for ice harvesting. I also learned that the Dutch mined Todt Hill for iron ore and the community was once called “Yserberg," the Dutch translation for Iron Hill. The community of Todt Hill was named Iron Hill prior to Todt hill. This is to name just a tiny amount of the research we collected on Staten Island towns and their history.
We have provided our visitors with of the most insightful research and reports on the history, origins and people that once called Staten Island their home. You can find out about Staten Island neighborhoods under our buying guide tab. We hope you have fun knowing about what our hometown has evolved from. Over the next few weeks we will have even more history and facts about Staten Island for our visitors to enjoy. See you then...
Locally, many potential home buyers and sellers like to catch a glimpse of what homes for sale are available within a particular neighborhood. While we do offer more advanced map searches, we found many of our website visitors like to make their home search more encompassing without some of the more technical map search features.
Locals are also, more particularly, knowledgeable about the zip codes they live in or maybe looking to see what’s on the market. The difference between a zip code search and a particular neighborhood search is it covers more territory. For example, someone looking forward to seeing what homes for sale in 10314, would find listings within Bulls Head, Westerleigh, Manor heights, Castleton Corners, which gives the visitor a greater spectrum to work within. Same would be searching for homes in 10306, which would include New Dorp, Todt Hill, Grant City, Oakwood and Bay Terrace. What we are trying to accomplish is simplicity for our visitors, which is both more encompassing without having to be neighborhood specific. Not to mention, a bit simpler to navigate. So if you’re looking for a home in 10301 on Staten Island’s North Shore, somewhere in between like 10308 or wander down to see what homes are available in 10307 on Staten Island southernmost side, we made it a bit more east to find.
Once again, we continue to strive in providing our visitors a much simpler approach to finding their next home, or just browsing to see what’s up for sale in their community. See something you’d like us to help improve, as always, we’re open ears.
Over the last several months RealEstateSINY.com has worked to provide an enhanced look at Staten Island neighborhoods. What we have been able to accomplish gives prospective buyers and homeowners a detailed look into the history of the neighborhood they plan to purchase or currently live in. You will find that it's easy to navigate each neighborhood where can you find backgrounds on each. If you take a look at some of our neighborhood profiles like About Tottenville, Todt Hill, Princes Bay, Annadale, Randall Manor among 36 others, you will find is chock-full of information and a history resource for locals looking to know more about where they live.
We didn't stop there; we provided an experience for the user to gain insights into Staten Island historic districts, community landmarks, Staten Island parks, and publicly recorded home sales data. Over the coming weeks and months, you'll see a series of updates don't provide detailed insights into many of the aspects of understanding Staten Island real estate. Not to mention, we provide quick and easy access to Staten Island real estate listings in a simple and easy format to navigate without having to filter through advertising and other methods that require more steps in trying to find a home a homebuyer seeks.
At RealEstateSINY.com, our commitment to providing a resource and guide to Staten Island will help make our buyers and sellers more educated about places they live or soon to be living in. Our company has grown considerably based on our understanding of what consumers look for and need when it comes to their community, and we will continue to provide the best experience to those who seek the best information available locally.
Have an idea for our company, or think we can be doing something more and better, let us know. So go ahead and check us out.
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Even though it is a buyers market, people looking to buy a home make some very common mistakes. It doesn't matter if you are buying your first home or you are re entering the real estate market.
The market got a temporary boost when the government put the federal homebuyer tax credit into effect. In April when those tax credits expired, the market dropped to the lowest levels in ten years. The buyers who stand to benefit the most from the weak market and low interest rates are first time buyers who don't have an existing home to sell. But even with these things in your favor, there are still some very commen mistakes that can be made.
Many people think that they don't need an agent to help them find a home. And while it may be true that you can find a home on your own, a qualified and compitant real estate agent can make the process easier. Real estate agents know the current market and have access to all of the most up to the minute listings. They can help you find a house in your price range, they will do all the negotiating for you, set up home inspections and guide you in the area of financing. Find an agent that you are comfortable with. Ask friends and relatives for referrals and meet with 3 or more agents before selecting one to work with.
There are many tools available to you on the internet that can be used to help you in the search for a home. But you should use them as guides and let a professional help you in the end. Many people use 
and mortgage sites to find out what they can afford to spend on a home, only to be disappointed when they find out that lenders will not land them the amount they thought they qualified for. The process for obtaining a mortgage has changed tremendously in the last few years. Applicants will be subject to stricter criteria and several credit checks. It is best that you visit a bank or mortgage lender before you even begin your search for a home. Most agents won't even take you out looking for homes without a pre-qualification form a lender. Once you have your pre-qualification, you will know what price range to look in.
Another common mistake is the home buyer who wants to buy an older home at a lesser price, and remodel it. The cost of remodeling and rennovating older homes is not always worth the lower price of the home. These repairs can be very costly. If you have your heart set on an older home, ask for a long due-diligence period, this way if you find out that the cost of the repairs isn't worth it, you have time to back out.
Along the same line, don't fall so hard for a house that you neglect to take in the neighborhood. Sometimes when you love a house so much you tend to block out the negative things about the neighborhood. Is it too noisy? Too many kids? Not enough parking spaces? These things may not seem as important when you first start looking, but you will live in this home and this neighborhood for a long time, so you should make sure that you will be comfortable there. You can always fix up the home that way you like, but there isn't much you can do about the neighborhood.
Finally, with the market being hit so hard, many home buyers think that they can pay what ever they want for a home and make very low offers. While it is okay to start off low, you should keep your offer as close to the comps as possible. Granted, in this market, most homeowners are not fielding multiple offers for their homes, but they don't want to give them away either. When you find a home that you are interested in, base your bid on the prices of recenly sold comparable homes in the area. There are good deals to be had out there, keep your expectations realistic and you will find the home for you.
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Our Company
Over the past several years much has changed in the real estate industry. Besides being one of the most challenging markets we have seen in a century, the dynamics of how the market moved was drastically changing as well. While the macro economic conditions did not favor the real estate market, there were other shifts in how the market moved. Today 90% and soon likely near 100% of home-buyers will use the Internet as the key resource in finding their next home. We saw this change coming for years, and while RealEstateeSINY.com may appear as a new company, it actually existed for over 4 year . In that time, we have had experiential growth with the help of several platforms bringing us nearly 3 million users and a sales growth of over 300% in that time. Consequently, that was a market that had shed nearly 70% of its volume sales over the same period.. In that respect, what we have been able to accomplish over the past several years seems rather remarkable. How and why we came about. We looked and studied the pattern s of today's much savior home-buyer and presented them with a much more complete approach to their home buying experience. While I'm sure you have come to know more of the national sites that feature listings in our community, we took that concept but were able to move it much further. The main key was to make our website as engaging and resourceful to keep home-buyers in tune with us daily? For us, that meant keeping every available Staten Island listing updated and easily searchable by users of our website. In turn, that allowed us to engage clients proactively. We knew,, It was imperative for our business model to be in control of how potential buyers viewed their homes we listed. That means controlling the advertising medium in which we now operate. Beyond just a real estate company we are an entire Internet media channel for Staten Island real estate. What does that mean for our clients? It means, we can market the way we want, without much reliance on third party marketing venues. Ultimately, it puts our client's listings ahead of other companies who rely primarily on third party advertising venues to advertise their client's listings. Basically we have control over an entire advertising medium. For Buyers, we offer a full resource website to buying that surpasses any single entity that can be found locally, even nationally. We provide the most accurate and updated data on every available property listed on Staten Island.. Its searchable, easy to manage and is a one stop resource to home buying consumers interested in purchasing a home on Staten Island.. Our knowledge of communities have allowed us categorize locations and towns based on buyer needs. With a click of a mouse, a call, or even the ability to chat right online to set appointments, ask questions means our ability to service clients is unprecedented for a local real estate company.
What it meant for our sellers. We're not just another real estate company, but an entire local real estate media channel. Our company name is part of our marketing strategy, it's both generic, and Staten Island specific. Meaning, those buyers who live outside of Staten Island won't have to fumble around looking for specific company websites to find us. By keeping it simple it allowed us to stay more engaged with potential buyers because we featured every home. The number one job of any real estate broker is to generate buyers, no one has done a better job than us in creating a complete strategy that feature both proactive marketing and reactive marketing strategies. Total control of your home's advertising position. Basically, if buyers are consistently engaging us it allows us to market homes listed by our company by positioning our seller's homes where buyers will be looking, that puts us in control vs. relying on third party advertising companies. By being proactive in our marketing, we carry more of our registered buyers who engage our website allowing us to efficiently match our client's listings with those buyers specific criteria. That contrasts what you might know about what real estate marketing is, and that's what we mean by being proactive. This feature alone is one of the key reasons we have been as successful as we have been in getting our clients homes sold. Using a public relations format to advertise our listings. There is little about real estate marketing that's so exciting, but we've changed that quite a bit. One thing you'll notice about real estate marketing is a quick summary about the specifics of the home and maybe a few one line highlights. Instead, we provide a comprehensive overview of the entire experience of being in your particular home, neighborhood, and positive aesthetics that your home offers. This is done in story form and not just a quick summary. Through the use of our blog platform you're able to syndicate this information as a newsworthy story and shown as headline news on WCBS New York and the New York Post. Not to mention, several other newsworthy online sites. We are the only company locally that is able to perform this level marketing. In conclusion. Our company was built on not just an idea, but a completely tangible and carefully explained marketing approach to what may be our client's greatest asset. The simplest example of that is reading this company profile alone. Basically it's comprehensive, more than that we are proud about telling you every detail, and it's that pride that has driven us to increase business over 300% in the last three years. Our agents and company leadership are proud about being at the forefront of what the real estate industry has become, and we have hired the very best in exceeding your expectations. That means our clients are getting the very best service and we stand for nothing less.
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