WRITING
Writing
Occasional essays on selling, buying, and the market in southeastern New England.
The better you do it, the less of it anyone can see.
A real estate agent’s best work leaves no evidence that it happened.
September 2026
Picture a sale that goes well. The seller signs some paperwork, the house goes live on a Thursday, there are showings all weekend, an offer is accepted Monday, an inspection happens, and six weeks later there is a closing.
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Into the Family Life and Out
On the shape of a working relationship in real estate.
May 2026
The work is an immersion. When I take on a client, I am for a window of weeks or months a kind of temporary extension of their family. Then it ends.
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What the Data Doesn’t Say
Why the numbers matter and why they are never the whole story.
March 2026
Every pricing conversation starts the same way. The seller has a number in mind. The agent has a comparable sales report. The two numbers rarely match.
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The Preparation Most People Skip
Why seller representation is a research problem.
March 2026
At twenty-one I moved to Los Angeles with no connections and no safety net. None of that was real estate. All of it was preparation.
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