A Treat (or Trick?) for the Real Estate Market

Whether you're haunting for your dream home or considering listing your current batcave before the ghoulishly busy holiday season, it's a fang-tastic time to sink your teeth into the real estate market!

Thinking of making a move? Don't be a scaredy-cat or let this opportunity vanish into thin air. Let's treat the October market as your next big opportunity. After all, in real estate, timing is everything, and sometimes, the biggest treats come when you least expect them!

Happy House Hunting (or Selling!) and Happy Halloween!

Compass in the News

Anywhere and its Family of Brands and Businesses Have Agreed to Join Compass!

I’m excited to announce that Anywhere and its family of brands and businesses have agreed to join Compass. This marks a monumental step for the future of our company – one that fulfills our mission to empower agents with everything we need to grow our businesses and better serve home sellers and home buyers.

By bringing together these two companies, we are unlocking new opportunities for agent-to-agent client referrals, expanding our reach to ~120 countries and territories, and enhancing our ability to deliver more value to home sellers and home buyers at every stage of their real estate journey.

Read all about it!

Compass Wins Inman Innovator Award

I'm excited to share that Compass ONE has won the 2025 Inman Innovator Award for Most Innovative Client Experience Solution!

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Compass One is an all-in-one client dashboard that delivers 24/7 transparency before, during, and after every transaction. It's the only platform designed specifically to keep clients and their agents connected at step of the real estate journey. LEARN MORE.

Real Estate in the News

Manhattan Prices Don’t Follow Mortgage Rates

Conventional wisdom suggests that when mortgage rates rise, home prices fall. The logic is as straightforward as it is obvious: as borrowing becomes more expensive, fewer people can afford to buy, so prices must drop to fill the gap. Conversely, when rates fall and affordability improves, buyers compete with one another to secure a deal, and prices tend to rise. (FORBES).

More on Mortgage Rates...

American Dream of Affordable Home Ownership?

Modular homebuilder Fading West is planning to be part of the solution to a wide-ranging dilemma. The company assembles modular homes inside a 110,000 SF factory. Compared to traditional on-site stick-built construction, they claim its lean manufacturing principles reduce costs by up to 20% and delivers a finished house in half the time.  CNBC.

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Why Selling Without an Agent Can Cost You More Than You Think

Cutting out the agent might seem like a smart way to save when you sell your house But here's the hard truth...

Courtesy of Keeping Current Matters

MANHATTAN/BROOKLYN MARKET REPORTS

We are excited to announce the release of the Compass

Q3 2025 Manhattan Market Insights Report & Brooklyn Market Insights Report. These reports highlight the prevailing trends shaping the market.

Download Manhattan Report

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Local News & Happenings

NYC subway lines have banned dogs unless they fit inside a bag. Creative New York commuters did not disappoint!

September 25 - October 31

Harvest Glow -

The Bronx Zoo

Experience Harvest Glow at the Bronx Zoo this fall—a reimagined, family-friendly nighttime Halloween event featuring an animal-themed illuminated Jack O’Lantern Trail, nighttime Dinosaur Safari, live pumpkin carving, and Wildlife Theater.

Click HERE to learn more!

through October 25

Reimagining of ‘Into the Woods’ Takes Place in a Deep NYC Forest

If you’ve ever wanted to venture literally into the woods with Sondheim, now’s your chance—no teleportation or upstate trek required. Theater Director Miles Sternfeld will bring a site-specific, immersive production of Into the Woods to Staten Island’s 140-acre Camp Pouch, transforming the wilderness into a fairytale under the stars. Read TimeOut for more.

Health Vs Wealth

Earn More, Live longer

Older people who earn less than $20,000 a year die 9 years sooner on average than those who earn $120,000 or more. Around 80% of older adult households, about 34 million, don't have the financial resources to weather a shock such as sudden widowhood, serious illness or need for long-term care.

Courtesy of USA TODAY

Movie Monsters & More...

MONSTERS AND MAKERS @ the Paris Theater

A complete retrospective of Guillermo del Toro’s feature films that will take you on a fantastical journey through the director’s many wondrous, otherworldly creations, and the dark sides of humanity they reveal. ALSO included, screenings of: James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein,and 35mm shows of Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête & Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive. Click, if you dare!

Horror & Halloween Movie Screenings

Check out some of the best horror and Halloween film screenings in the city this month!

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Did You Know?

The risk of a fatality from commercial air travel was 1 per every 13.7 million passenger boardings globally in the 2018-2022 period — a significant improvement from 1 per 7.9 million boardings in 2008-2017 and a far cry from the 1 per every 350,000 boardings that occurred in 1968-1977, MIT study finds.

Featured Listings

Midtown East

100 United Nations Plaza, Unit 8A

2 BD 3 BA 1327 SF $1,350,000

TESTIMONIALS

Jeffrey Bua

RMJ Home Team at Compass

Lic. Assoc. R.E. Broker

M: 917.991.1792

jeff.bua@compass.com