The Next Move Team - NCY Real Estate Experts for Baby Boomers / Seniors Real Estate Needs

Taxi and Uber surcharge would hurt seniors Taxi and Uber surcharge would hurt seniors Some New Yorkers can't use subways but don't qualify for Access-a-Ride 0  Comments Email   Print   0   0   0   Re “ A way out of Albany’s congestion-pricing pickle”  (March 19): Congestion pricing will hurt one particular group of people. The task force’s recommendations include a taxi and for-hire vehicle surcharge of $2 to $5 per ride. Many partly disabled people and many senior citizens can’t use subways or buses and they don’t qualify for paratransit service. This group must rely on taxis and for-hire vehicles, and the surcharge would make transportation unaffordable for them. Sheldon Burke

We, at The Next Move Team, are a unique team of experienced and dedicated Real Estate Professionals in New York, focused on working with Mature Adults / Seniors / Baby Boomers and/or their families in all related Real Estate needs they may have now, and/or in the future. Our services include but are not limited to the selling of current homes, relocation, downsizing, and/or upgrading purchase of a new home, and any additional specialty services that may be required in the process. We are a group of Real Estate Top Brokers, who understand the issues that this so important group of our population may be facing, in regards to their next move. We understand, and have a special skill set to be there, side-by-side with our Clients, supporting, and leading them through this very often emotional, potentially very complicated, and demanding process. Experience has shown us that when these necessary decisions are made with good understanding, knowledge, and thoughtful, thorough planning, it...

Manhattan and Queens Rentals See Record Volume of Price Cuts  By  Casey Roberts Jan. 25, 2018 A glut of high-end housing in Queens caused landlords to cut rents at the end of 2017. As the typical winter slowdown hit the New York City real estate market in late 2017, landlords cut asking rents, causing the share of rental discounts to rise dramatically across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, according to the Q4 2017  StreetEasy® Market Reports   [i] . More than one-third of Manhattan rentals (34 percent) and 28 percent of Queens rentals received price cuts in the last quarter of 2017 — the highest levels on StreetEasy record  [ii] . Twenty-eight percent of rentals in Brooklyn saw a price cut, just below the borough’s all-time high of 29 percent, recorded in the fourth quarter of 2016. Compared to the same time the previous year, median rents in Manhattan and Brooklyn were essentially flat at $3,125 and $2,524, up only 0...

Downsizing on the Upper East Side w/ Ina Torton - Next Move Team Harriet Brent Magzis was raised on the Upper West Side, and later moved to Westchester County with her husband and their two young sons.  In 2000, after getting divorced and remarrying, Ms. Brent Magzis, who worked as a pianist and piano instructor, returned to New York City with her second husband, a book editor who wanted to escape his long commute.  The couple bought a Classic Six in a West 90's Coop building, circa 1914, with a big living room for her Steinway grand piano. Her husband sometimes remarked that the apartment was too large for them, but she never thought so.  They lived there together until he died in 2006. "I am old as the hills," said Ms. Brent Magzis, who is not 81. After living in the apartment alone with her dog, Sacha, she came to realize that her husband had bee right: It was not only too large, but too expensive. The maintenance was around $1,850 a month, and they h...