{"id":2580,"date":"2014-02-28T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:45:44","slug":"my-brother-phil-gets-quoted-again-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"My brother Phil gets quoted (again) in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/local\/westchester\/2014\/02\/26\/winter-didnt-freeze-out-regions-homebuyers\/5838851\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Winter didn&#39;t freeze out region&#39;s homebuyers<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For the second consecutive month there has been a decline in sales of existing homes nationally. The drop was 6 percent in December, and more of the same is expected for January and February when those numbers are announced, said the National Association of Realtors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">******<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Not so for markets in Westchester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There has been good business in this post holiday and pre-spring period, said J. Philip Faranda, broker\/owner of Philip Real Estate LLC, and president of Hudson Gateway MLS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&quot;I can understand how the national numbers would be dragged down a bit by the very extreme weather we see in other regions of the country. Overall, I expect the market to catch up as people dig out in the snow belt,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter didn&#39;t freeze out region&#39;s homebuyers For the second consecutive month there has been a decline in sales of existing homes nationally. The drop was 6 percent in December, and more of the same is expected for January and February when those numbers are announced, said the National Association of Realtors. ****** Not so for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/8377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}