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Total existing home sales rise by 4.5% in June 2012 over last year, while prices rise 7.9% from a year ago to $189,400. This marks four back-to-back monthly price increases from a year earlier, which last occurred in 2006. Lawrence YUN, NAR chief economist noted  the more important story of decreasing inventory and prices, ...

The median price for a single family home in Westchester was $630,000 in 2010, up by 8%. The number of transactions also rose by 16% over 2009. Westchester had seen somewhat of a recovery last year, given the three year consecutive price drop, and six year consecutive drop in volume for single family homes. These numbers are important because ...

Jimmy McMillan, candidate for New York State Governor, started his own political party called the Rent 2 DAMN High Party. His whole platform is to fix the state economy by lowering rents for families in the state. It's been reported that he pays zero rent in New York City for the past ten years. So how are rents in Westchester? Are Westchester ...

Coyotes have been sighted in Westchester County since an alert went out in March 2010. Two people have been attacked. Therefore AskRey.net is issuing these uncommon sense warnings if you see a coyote in your neck of the woods.   The Coyote, otherwise known as "Carnivorous vulgaris", "Famishius fantasticus" or even ...

Which school districts have the best elementary schools in Westchester? If you ask someone, you might get a good argument for the Scarsdale or Rye districts. Part of reason people from all over the world move to Westchester is to take advantage of the areas top schools, which are competitive with any district in the nation.  However did you ...

HousesClosings were up 77% to 756 closings for single family homes in Westchester County in the first quarter of 2010. Prices were also up 13% respectively for the same period in the county, making the median price for a new house $599,500. These closings reflect activity that occurred the Fall of 2009. Realtors remain optimistic that a ...

HousesClosings were down 12% to 3,358 closings for single family homes in Westchester County in 2009. Prices were down 11% respectively for the same period in the county, making the median price for a new house $580,000, just above prices in 2003. Normally a dismal reporting period, but with an up-beat tone, since each quarter saw progressive ...

Westchester County NY reported a 9.7% decrease from last year’s 3rd quarter home sales transactions. The median sale price of a single family house in Westchester was $630,000, a decrease of $80,000 or nearly 11% from last year. This would be horrible news if it weren’t for the abysmal performance of the market in the first two ...

Pennington Elementary School in Mount Vernon, the Greenvale School in Scarsdale and FE Bellows Elementary in Mamaroneck have been awarded the 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools by the Federal Department of Education. The prestigious Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools that are either academically ...

This guy has been getting a lot of flack lately. Most of it unjustified. However you Empire state home buyers should be giving Gov. Patterson a standing ovation for creating the NYS Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC). It allows first time home buyers to claim a tax credit equal to 20% of your annual mortgage interest costs. Most of you are aware ...