Inman, Bloggers & Flight Delays
A: Well, it was a blast spending time with great people helping to shape the real estate industry across the country. I was honored to speak in front of over a thousand people at the Inman Real Estate conference with such great bloggers including Kevin Boer, Jonathan Miller, Ardell Dellaloggia, and Theresa Boardman, Jim Cronin, Dan Green, Mary McKnight, Brian Brady, and Charles Turner. All these guys are providing a great service to their readers by discussing real time tips from street level so that everyone can learn a little bit more about real estate, mortgages, appraisals, and starting a new real estate blog to take your career up a notch or two. I also spent time with Joe & Rudy of Sellsius, Drew Meyers of Zillow Blog, Lockhart Steele of Curbed.com, Pat Kitano of Transparent RE, Jim Duncan of Real Central VA, Phil & Christian of Wellcomemat.com, Kris Berg of San Diego Real Estate Blog, Todd Carpenter of Lenderama, Joel Burlesom of Future of Real Estate Marketing & New Inman Partner, and Im sure a few more Im forgetting (sorry!).
What sucked was the flight back to New York which was delayed 2 hours leaving San Francisco, then delayed 2 hours in the air as we were rerouted to Virginia awaiting air traffic control to organize the backlog of flights landing in JFK, then running out of fuel and landing in Atlantic City, and finally being grounded in Atlantic City for another two hours waiting for thunderstorms to clear out of New York. Fun! All in all, what was supposed to be a 8:30 arrival time turned into a 3:30AM arrival time in JFK.
The silver lining was that I realized I was trapped on the same flight as superstar appraiser Jonathan Miller and got the great opportunity to talk to him about the current credit mess, thoughts moving forward, how companies can help solve the problems, fed talk, real estate talk, and tools both of us are working on to make real estate analysis more transparent. Jonathan truly is a stand up and down to earth guy and I'm just happy to have got to known him a bit better. Fact is, he doesn't have to blog on his incredibly informative site Matrix, but he does out of the passion for writing and bringing readers inside tips and thoughts on his industry and the real estate market in general. Very admirable in my opinion for a guy that has a wealth of information to share and is a consistent source of information in the most respected media outlets.
Moving on, I'm about to start publishing what I think are incredibly informative posts about the macro economics of what is going on right now. I hope you understand the short term disconnect in writings about the NYC real estate market as I attempt to cover the issues we currently face in the credit markets and how that effects us.
Posted by Larry Nusbaum
Sat Aug 4th, 2007 01:35 PM
I plan to check out the blogs listed. Thanks.
I was in SF last weekend......
next time fly into Oakland.
Look forward to your posts on the general market.
Posted by Noah
Sat Aug 4th, 2007 01:43 PM
Thx Larry! Long time. How have you been? Great predition on the strength of the commerical markets by the way a ways ago!
Posted by Larry Nusbaum
Sat Aug 4th, 2007 02:01 PM
We are all fabulous. Thanks
SF was booming. No real estate bust there or in San Jose, San Mateo or Marin County.
btw, now that you mention it, certain sectors of commercial RE are topping.
What people often forget is that topping, unlike the stock market, does not have to mean price declines.
Strip centers in well selected neighborhoods is the key going forward. Also, "A" credit quality tenant office buildings should continue to shine.
Finally, I would think that apartment buildings in weak housing markets should also thrive.
Depending on the state, there are pre-foreclosure bargains in housing galore. Two ways to buy: direct with homeowner or using a wholesaler. I prefer the latter.
Be well. How is your dad?
Posted by Jim Cronin
Sat Aug 4th, 2007 02:27 PM
Noah,
It was a pleasure having the opportunity to spend some time with you and your wife in SF. Hope to meet up again in NY in January.
Posted by Noah
Sat Aug 4th, 2007 05:20 PM
you too Jim! Good times!!! By the way, I had to go to LI for the day. Just got back. Ill mail out the thing on Monday overnight. Hope you can last a few more days.
Let me know if you come to NYC anytime soon!
Posted by Kris Berg
Sat Aug 4th, 2007 11:06 PM
a: Noah, it was a tremendous pleasure meeting you and your GORGEOUS and equally charming wife.
I have rarely had the pleasure of meeting people who are at once brilliantly intellectual and disarmingly, hysterically funny. I count Noah among this crowd. I thoroughly enjoyed it. While I will pass on Winter in New York, I hope to see you again next year on the (warmer) west coast.
Posted by Teresa Boardman
Wed Aug 8th, 2007 12:09 PM
Loved meeting you Noah!