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🌆 What if NYC told you your home could face a second-home tax and YOU had to prove it wasn’t? About 17,000 owners got notices. Now a judge has stepped in. ⚖️ What happens next?

#NYCRealEstate #PropertyTaxes

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Judge orders New York City to restart secondary-home tax rollout; city appeals | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
💰 NYC counted on a new second home tax to raise $500M a year and help close its budget gap. Now a judge has ordered a do over. When Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented his $124.7 billion Executive Budget ...
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September 30, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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👀 One of Brooklyn’s most unusual historic sites may be getting a surprising new chapter. The plan for Floyd Bennett Field raises a bigger question about what NYC could do with places built for another era. ✈️

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#Brooklyn #NYC
Turning an Airfield in Brooklyn Into a High School | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
✈️ Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes once made history at Floyd Bennett Field. Nearly a century later, big plans are taking shape for this old Brooklyn airfield. Floyd Bennett Field was once associate...
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September 29, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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🤖 One of the more unexpected skills gaining new value in the AI era has nothing to do with coding. Some Gen Zers are going back to something many never learned properly. ⌨️ #AI #GenZ #FutureOfWork #DigitalSkills

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These Gen Zers are teaching themselves typing to prompt AI better, or have a leg up in the work world | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
⌨️ Gen Z grew up with smartphones and tablets, and now AI is giving some of them a reason to learn an old skill that many were never taught properly. That skill is typing. For years, technology seeme...
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September 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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👀 Compass says data it provides to MLSs is being sold to technology companies that help competitors recruit its agents. Now it wants that stopped. Who should control the data real estate professionals help create?
#RealEstate #MLS #Compass

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Compass to MLSs: Stop ‘weaponizing’ agent data | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🔐 What if data you’re required to provide is helping your competitors recruit you? A new fight over control of real estate information is emerging, and this one is not about whether a home appears on...
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September 27, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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🏙️ How does a 150 year old New York landmark stay relevant? 92NY is betting on flexible spaces, better access and a $250M reinvention built for how people gather now. #NYC #92NY

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92NY’s $250 Million Renovation Transforms an ‘Amazing Jigsaw Puzzle’ | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏙️ 92NY is undergoing a $250 million transformation. The bigger story is how a 150 year old New York landmark prepares for its next century. For generations, 92NY has occupied a rare place in the lif...
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September 26, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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👀 Not every “Coming Soon” home is equally visible. Compass’ See It First, OneKey and the RLS show how early access, syndication and registration can shape what buyers actually find before a home goes fully public. #NYCRealEstate #Compass #OneKeyMLS

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The future of Zillow and Compass as ‘See It First’ goes live | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏠 What if the home you want is already for sale, but not where you’re looking? Compass has introduced “See It First” as part of the largest redesign of Compass.com in a decade, giving buyers another ...
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September 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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🏙️ In 2017, brokerages pushed back on StreetEasy. In 2026, Bess Freedman says consumer habits changed the stakes. If buyers changed how they search, should brokerage strategy change too?
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#NYCRealEstate #StreetEasy
The StreetEasy fight puts company over consumer: Freedman | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏙️ What changed between StreetEasy in 2017 and today? According to Bess Freedman, consumers did. In a new Inman op ed, the Brown Harris Stevens CEO looks back at a period when several major New York ...
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September 25, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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🏙️💸 NYC’s expiring tax abatements could change more than monthly bills. They may reshape affordability, condo vs. co-op choices and resale value. Buyers should ask one question now: what will this home cost when the tax break is gone? #NYCRealEstate #NYCHousing

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Expiring Property Tax Breaks Are About to Make New York Even More Expensive | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
💸 Imagine buying a New York City home with a $140 annual property tax bill and watching it rise to $7,600, with $10,500 projected next year. That kind of tax shock is becoming a reality for thousand...
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September 25, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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🏠 Waiting for 6% mortgage rates? Be careful what you wish for. Lower rates could bring more buyers back, increase competition and support prices. #MortgageRates #Housing
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Mortgage rates face several hurdles before they can return to 6% | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
📉 Everyone is waiting for mortgage rates to return to 6%, but reaching that number may not tell us whether housing has truly become more affordable. The bigger question for buyers and sellers is how...
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September 24, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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🏙️ Who should control how a home reaches the market? NYC’s listing battle is testing the balance between buyer access, seller choice and platform power. My take on Pam Liebman’s Inman op ed.
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#NYCRealEstate #SellerChoice
New York City's housing market is not one-size-fits-all | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏙️ If you were selling your home, should a real estate platform get to decide how and when it goes to market? Pamela Liebman, President and CEO of Corcoran, raises that question in a new Inman op ed...
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September 22, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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🌍 What happens when America trains top scientists and engineers, then makes it harder for them to stay? H-1B uncertainty is pushing some talent to build careers elsewhere. #H1B #STEM #GlobalTalent
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They planned their futures around America. The past 12 months have left them rethinking that dream. | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
✈️ What if one policy change could determine where you build your career, your home and your future? For thousands of highly skilled professionals, that is not hypothetical. Business Insider spent th...
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September 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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🔒 Have a job? You may not want to leave. Own a home? You may not want to move. America’s job and housing markets are increasingly stuck, making it harder to move up, move out or move on. Is this the new normal? 🏠💼

#Jobs #RealEstate

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Waiting for a better job and housing market? You could be waiting a while. | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏠💼 What if waiting for a better job market and a more affordable housing market is no longer a strategy? For years, Americans frustrated by a difficult job search or the rising cost of homeownership ...
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September 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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🤖What happens when AI helps build the next generation of AI? The technology could accelerate faster than humans can understand or control it. Now the debate is shifting from how powerful AI can become to whether the guardrails can keep up. ⚠️
#AI #AISafety

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Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
⚠️ Slowing down AI sounds straightforward. Proving that everyone actually slowed down may be much harder. Three of the most influential and fiercely competitive figures in artificial intelligence hav...
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September 18, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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👀 Are you actually seeing every home for sale? The fight over pocket listings, online platforms and referral fees is escalating, with Zillow, Compass and Redfin caught in a growing debate over who controls access to listings and consumers. 🏠

#RealEstate #MLS

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State AGs urged to probe Zillow, pocket listings, referral fees | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🔎 You click “Contact Agent” on a home you love. Who gets your inquiry, who gets paid for it and who decided which homes you saw in the first place? Some of the biggest fights unfolding in residential...
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September 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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👀 The AI race was all about going faster. Now its biggest players want to slow down. The safety concerns may be real, but so are questions about who benefits from the rules. Who should decide how fast AI advances?

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#AI #AISafety #AIGovernance
AI leaders calling for a slowdown right now is awfully convenient | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🤖 When the people building the world’s most powerful AI start saying it may be advancing too quickly, shouldn’t the rest of us be asking why? For years, the artificial intelligence race has largely b...
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September 15, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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🇫🇷💶 What if your dream home in Paris came with an American premium? 👀

Americans are moving across the Atlantic, but unfamiliarity with the French market may be costing some buyers.

Why local knowledge matters

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#ParisRealEstate #RealEstate
Americans are flocking to Paris real estate — and French agents know they'll pay a premium | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🇺🇸➡️🇫🇷 Forget Florida. Americans are retiring to Paris, and they’re changing its real estate market. Americans buying homes in Paris is nothing new. What appears to be changing is why they are buying...
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September 13, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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🏙️ They wondered whether Lower Manhattan would come back. It became a neighborhood where 70,000+ people now live.

25 years after 9/11, its story is about rebuilding, community and never forgetting those we lost. 🕊️❤️

#NeverForget #September11 #NYC

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In the 25 years since 9/11, lower Manhattan went from wasteland to real estate hotspot. Here’s how. | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏙️ 25 years ago, many wondered whether Lower Manhattan would ever recover. Today, more than twice as many people call it home. On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable happened in the heart of New Yor...
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September 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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👀 More choices. More price cuts. Fewer buyers pulling the trigger. U.S. home sales plunged 10.7% in August as mortgage rates above 6.5% squeezed affordability. 🏡

#MortgageRates #HousingMarket #RealEstate

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Zillow: Homebuyers drop anchor as mortgage rates rise | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏠 More homes are for sale. More sellers are cutting prices. So why did home sales plunge 10.7% in just one month? After increasing 6% in July, U.S. home sales reversed course in August, falling 10.7%...
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September 11, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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🛢️ Oil is back above $100, and the ECB responded today by raising rates to 2.5%. Could the Fed follow next week?

Renewed inflation concerns are changing expectations for borrowing costs and mortgage rates. 🏠

#ECB #Fed #MortgageRates #RealEstate

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The ECB Just Raised Interest Rates. Here’s What to Know. | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🏡 Think lower mortgage rates are just around the corner? What happened in Europe today may make you think twice. The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate to 2.5%, its second increase th...
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September 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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💼 Americans have slammed the brakes on changing jobs. With fewer people willing to leave, fewer opportunities open for those trying to get in or move up. Is staying put becoming the safest career move?

#Jobs #Economy #FutureOfWork

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American Workers Have Slammed the Brakes on Switching Jobs | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
💼 What if having a job has become the safest place to be, and looking for one has become the risky part? The latest employment numbers suggest a resilient U.S. workforce. Employers added 162,000 jobs...
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September 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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💼 162,000 new jobs, yet finding one can still feel incredibly difficult.

Beneath the headline, AI, wages, inflation and interest rates are reshaping where opportunities are growing and disappearing. What does the future of work look like?

#Jobs #AI #Economy #RealEstate

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US nonfarm payrolls blow past expectations in August; unemployment rate steady at 4.1% | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🇺🇸📈 162,000 new jobs. Unemployment at 4.1%. So why does finding a job still feel so difficult for so many Americans? The U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly triple the roughly 56,000 economists...
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September 5, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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🕊️ Gloria Steinem helped change what America once told women they couldn’t do. She died at 92, with some of those battles won and others fiercely contested again.

Her influence spans generations. The work continues. ⚖️

#GloriaSteinem #WomensRights

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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🕊️ Many of the freedoms American women consider ordinary today were considered radical when Gloria Steinem began fighting for them. Gloria Steinem, the journalist, author, organizer and activist who ...
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September 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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⚖️ $110.6M in real estate commission settlements just survived an appeal.

For the second time in 13 days, the 8th Circuit upheld settlements tied to the lawsuits that changed how agents are paid. 🏠

What it means 👇🏾

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#RealEstate #NAR #Gibson
8th Circuit upholds $110.6M in Gibson commission settlements | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
⚖️ Think the fight over real estate commissions is over? Another major court ruling just pushed the industry closer to an answer. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld $110.6 mi...
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September 2, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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🌊 $150M to bring a buried Bronx stream back to life?

NYC plans to daylight Tibbetts Brook, creating a new waterway that could prevent 215M gallons of sewage from reaching the Harlem River each year. 🌿

See how it works 👇🏾

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#NYC #TheBronx
A Buried New York City Stream Gets a Second Life | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE,
🌊 What if one answer to New York City’s flooding problem has been buried beneath our feet for more than a century? New York buried a Bronx stream generations ago. Now the city is spending $150 millio...
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September 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Ots really good, my kids are obsessed so I was about to say they habent ahwd badly, lol, just not my type.
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