Tweet A few weeks ago,I got a message from a friend (who also happens to be an Upper East Side resident and broker) telling me one of my favorite local places had shut down. How did she know to mention ? Well,I tend to check in on Foursquare when I stop in for drinks or…
Category Archives: Random Ruminations
Back to the Future
Tweet Frederick Peters,President Over the last fifteen years, all our lives have ben revolutionized by technology in ways we could not even have imagined when the Internet (or World Wide Web as it was known in those days) first came onto the horizon. Business has been profoundly transformed by the transparency inherent in full access…
Gratitude- latest blog post from Warburg President Frederick Peters on what he is thankful for…
Tweet This is the time of year to express what you are thankful for. Frederick Peters, president of Warburg Realty, shares his annual professional gratitude list. Frederick Peters, President As I have mentioned before in these blogs, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Last week 30 of our closest family and friends gathered at the house…
I Don’t Ask for Much- latest blog from Warburg President Frederick Peters
Tweet The internet and social networks have certainly changed the way we receive news. But how has it changed the way the news is reported? Frederick Peters, president of Warburg Realty, weighs in. Frederick Peters, President Last week The Real Deal held its annual forum at Avery Fisher Hall. I found myself in the surprising…
We Love New York latest blog from Warburg President Frederick Peters,reflecting and remembering on 10th anniversary of 9/11
Tweet Frederick Peters, President My daughter returned home from a year long stint working in orphanages in Thailand and Vietnam on September 10, 2001. My wife was in Berkeley helping my brother get his kids organized for school while my sister in law was in the hospital. On the morning of the 11th I went…
Latest from Warburg President Frederick Peters on the Warburg Realty Blog : MUCH HAVE I TRAVELED IN THE REALMS OF GOLD
Tweet Frederick Peters, President This wonderful opening line from Keats’s poem “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” also accurately describes my excitement (Philistine that I am!) every time I open the Select Register to look at a floor plan! In many ways I became a real estate agent, back in 1980, because of my love…
Feliz Cinco De Mayo
Tweet A repost from last year. What Cinco de Mayo is *actually* about…briefly ! —- Happy Cinco de Mayo ! Over dinner last night,my dear s/o and I were discussing how often many people don’t know the true significance of various holidays,for example Cinco de Mayo.He commented that on a recent business trip someone said…
Manhattan Market Mondays : Reflections….
Tweet A rare departure from my posts about real estate and life in New York City,and a brief detour into the personal.By now,we’ve all heard the news on the death of Osama Bin Laden. I’m not writing this as Republican, or Democrat-but as an American.As a New Yorker. This weekend,was an unusually pensive one,filled with…
Sometimes you need a kick in the tush-looking back on my first year of blogging
Tweet Where or where do I begin. I started using ‘the Twitter’ in August of 2009. It appealed to me,eventually,as a means of connecting and engaging with people locally,globally,across a variety of topics,not just real estate.And..it appealed because I could do it from my smartphone. I simply was NOT interested in blogging.I heard ALL the…
