For outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy ATVing, hunting, snowmobiling, fishing, canoeing, hiking … well, you get the gist … a house in one of the hunting and fishing clubs here can be an ideal option. The older established hunting clubs here, like Excelsior, Iroquois and Indian Fields, own vast swaths of acreage, usually a thousand or…
DetailsI just pulled the latest sales data for single family homes in Sullivan County from the Sullivan and Hudson Gateway MLSs. The numbers that came up shocked me, so much so that I went back and checked and double checked. For the most recent quarter (3 months ending June 30, 2015), the median sales price…
DetailsYesterday I discovered that new listings from the Sullivan MLS weren’t showing up in the property search system on my website. The last update was a week ago, on 7/7. I’ve been trying to get at the root of the problem today, which turns out to rest with the Sullivan County MLS system provider. That provider,…
DetailsWe’ve definitely hit the peak summer frenzy. After a pretty tepid winter and spring, the floodgates opened the last week of June, and it’s been crazy busy since. Now, the six or seven weeks from July 1 until mid August is typically the peak of the year here, but this year it seems busier than…
DetailsThere are a handful of houses that I always love showing, like this house northeast of Parksville. This one is quirky and fun, in a good way. The property was lovingly crafted by the owners, who are huge gardeners, over two decades. There are incredible perennial gardens. with winding paths, rock outcroppings and a lovely…
DetailsIt takes a lot to surprise this jaded and opinionated real estate hand. Before I walk into a house I can usually tell what the inside is like or how stylish (or more usually, not stylish) a house is. At Emerald Green, a lake community near Rock Hill dating from the 60’s and 70’s, a…
DetailsMy trusty 2003 Dodge Durango finally bit the dust. It was a great workhorse, albeit a thirsty one, and could go almost anywhere. I knew the end was near, and have been shopping for a new ‘real estate car’ for a few months. (I have a cool little Chevy Sonic, too, for runs to the…
DetailsGALA Catskills is throwing their annual Day to Be Gay Event this Saturday, June 20th, from 12 to 5pm at The Pavilion at Fat Lady Cafe on Horseshoe Lake Road in Kauneonga Lake. Free admission and parking.This is a great event, and has been a must-go on the l/g/b/t summer calendar here for 14 years.…
DetailsThis was a great week for new listings, including two contemporaries on larger acreage in the $600s, the modern house in Claryville I blogged about a couple of days ago and a new motorboat lakefront listing on Swinging Bridge. Motorboat lake houses have been in particularly short supply, so that one is really welcome. The…
DetailsSullivan County loves festivals and parades, and one of the quirkiest if the annual Trout Parade in Livingston Manor. It kicks off at 1PM this Saturday, June 13, 2015 on Main Street. The day wraps up with an ‘after party’ at the Catskill Brewery at 5. If you’re in the area tomorrow, be sure to…
DetailsTruly modern houses are pretty rare here, so when a new listing comes to market, it definitely catches my attention. I’ve been waiting for this one since I heard through the grapevine a few weeks ago it was going to be listed. I know the house, because I sold a house on an adjacent property…
DetailsA favorite event of the summer is the Callicoon Tractor Parade, this Sunday June 14, 2015 from Noon to 3PM on Main Street in Callicoon. Dozens of farm tractors will parade down Main Street, including quite a few lovingly maintained vintage ones. Kids love it and it draws a big crowd. Before the parade, from…
DetailsLakefront cottages with good lake frontage generally start in the mid $200’s here, with very slim pickings much less than that. That’s where this little lakefront gem on Wanaksink Lake started when it was first listed last year ($254,900). Under $200,000, lakefront buyers usually have to settle for a tiny lake, a house in really bad shape…
DetailsA number of the new listings that came to market over the past week caught my eye. including a modest little lake cabin up at Lake Muskoday at $169K and a large family-sized contemporary on Swinging Bridge, a motorboat lake, at $649K. There hasn’t been a 4+ bedroom lakefront on a motorboat lake in the…
DetailsIt was a quiet rainy day yesterday, and data geek here got an itch to find out just how prices compare in Sullivan County to the other Catskills and Hudson Valley counties that are within the search circle for New York City second home buyers. I pulled sales data from the Realist property record database…
DetailsI’ve been planning for a while now to get the property search system on Catskill4sale more in sync with the main site. Over the winter I did an overhaul of the main site to make it more responsive for folks using tablets and phones, but the property search side was still more desktop than mobile…
DetailsFriends know I have a couple of other passions beyond real estate (and, no, kink isn’t one of them — I’m a pretty vanilla guy). I love theater and travel, and last night I was checking out posts at Flyertalk, one of my fave travel sites. There was this article on a new website, Kinkbnb.com,…
DetailsIt’s been happening for a while now, the “modern rural evolution” of the Delaware River Valley, on both the New York and Pennsylvania sides of the Delaware River. Artists, musicians, photographers, organic farmers, chefs, and shopowners have been quietly and steadily transforming the river hamlets into a unique upstate ‘eco system’. Now it’s all being…
DetailsSullivan County has two summer theaters. Most folks here know about the Forestburgh Playhouse, our more traditional ‘summer stock’ venue with an 8 play season (7 musicals, 1 drama), opening with Damn Yankees on June 16th. But there’s also the NACL Theater (North American Culture Lab) in Highland Lake, our ‘off-Broadway’ venue that presents new…
DetailsToday is Assessment Grievance Day in most towns in Sullivan County, as well as most of New York state (with the exception of a handful of downstate counties that have a different schedule.) This is my third year sitting on my town’s Board of Assessment Review, and this year I’m chairing it. The BAR in…
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