The Pesce & Lanzillotta Team at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, New York Real Estate Podcast

What's up loyal listeners!?  Today we kick off the podcast with the news regarding reopening New York.  Very exciting news!!  The capacity restrictions are ALL lifted!!  But lets not forget, 6 feet of distance at all times.  We then go into a deep discussion about NYC office space.  What's going to happen with it all?  If people don't fully return to work, then the demand for office space in New Y...

Good day ladies and gentleman!  Mike & I Start off the podcast with a little discussion about our recent exercise habits.  The Peloton has become a savior for my health and many more during this pandemic.  Its a bit of a cult, but we really recommend everyone give it a try who values their health and wants to be proactive about it during these precarious times.  We then have a discussion about a new listing ...

What's up loyal listeners!!!  Today we dive into the hottest topic in all of real estate, How to become a solid listing agent.  There are some core competencies that a solid listing agent needs to posses.  First, you need the gift of gab!  Some people are natural born salespeople.  They literally came out of the womb selling and influencing people around them.  Others, are not so gifted.  But not ...

Good day loyal viewers and listeners!  Today we dive deep into what may be the most important skill in real estate today!  WINNING THE BIDDING WAR!  So as we all pretty much know by now, inventory is extremely low nationally.  Due to the fact that there are no homes on the market in most markets, a lot of real estate agents are having trouble getting accepted offers with all the competition.  All that being...

Boy are we happy to be back! SO MUCH has changed for us since our last podcast, which looking back at it was this past June. We had a banner year in 2020, sold over 50 million dollars in real estate with 3 months on the sidelines not being able to work because of covid.  The team has grown, there's so many new characters and contributors to the machine and we couldn't be any more excited!  We've got one of the tightest re...

Good Morning Everybody!  Its been two weeks since our last podcast, we apologize for that, but it's been SO CRAZY in the real estate world and it hasn't left us any time to do anything but work.  Since we've entered phase 2 on Long Island, we have seen an insane rush of houses that are going up for sale and selling at incredibly high numbers.  The Coronavirus has paved the way for one of the best markets that we've e...

Fellow listeners, I hope you all doing well!  America is going through some tough times.  The last three months we've been dealing with a pandemic that has completely thrown our country into a terrible place.  We've been quarantined to our homes, a lot of us have lost our jobs (about 40 Million to be exact), and a lot of us are still afraid to go out and interact with others.  Our daily routines are changed fore...

What's up Long Island!  Today, we enter Phase 1 of re-opening our economy here on Long Island.  As one of the hardest hit places in the country, and one of the longest shutdowns in the country, this is AMAZING NEWS!!  On this podcast we discuss what phase 1 entails.  We also discuss our fun and interesting Memorial Day adventures, and weekend fun.  A lot of changes have been upon us with re-opening and we'r...

Greetings loyal listeners!  We are unfortunately still stuck in this terrible lock down from the global pandemic that is the coronavirus.  Many other states are starting to open up and we are watching with cautious optimism  because soon enough the re-open date will be upon us New Yorker's.  Some parts of New York State are opening back up, good for them, but unfortunately we are where the state was hit the hard...

What is up loyal listeners?!  Welcome back to another juicy podcast where we discuss the new 3 trillion dollar stimulus proposed by the democrats in the house.  This stimulus has a lot of economic implications that are going to serve as a new benchmark for a lot of things coming down from the federal government.  Mike and I discuss all of the finer points of the original proposed stimulus plan, and give you our thoug...

Whats going on loyal listeners?!?!  The Coronavirus has given us so much to talk about.  First, The virus itself.  It seems like no one has a true grasp on what it actually is.  What symptoms it presents, who is more at risk and who isn't, whether or not they'll be another wave of this in the fall, etc.  There is also plenty of discussion as to whether or not the quarantine is the right thing to be doing at...

Hello Everyone and Welcome Back!  Man, times have for sure been extremely crazy these days with this pandemic.  If I were to tell you two months ago that the entire country would be locked down, you wouldn't be able to leave your house, all business had come to a screeching halt, real estate was on a "virtual only" basis, would you believe me?  I wouldn't either!  Mike and I sit down to discuss all things Corona...

HEY THERE everybody!  Today we had one of our best guests ever, a woman of many talents and accomplishments, Mrs. Jessica Askari.  Jessica started out her career at the young early age of 16, where she worked for the man responsible for taking a chance on the Wachowski brothers.  For those of you living under a rock, the Wachowski brothers are the ones who wrote and directed The Matrix.  During this time in her ...

Welcome Back!  Today we had the pleasure of sitting down with one of Long Island's top lenders, Danny Pisani.  Danny wears many hats, one of which being that he's on the ground level originating loans and operating at a very high level doing so.   He's built his illustrious career on relationships and referrals, which as we all know is a recipe for long term success.  He also sits on the executive board of ...

Hey there everyone!  Happy New Year from The Pesce & Lanzillotta Team!  We've recently made some big changes to our business and joined the fastest growing real estate brokerage on Long Island, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International.  BHHS is the number one brokerage in the country and likely one of the fastest growing.  We had the pleasure today to sit down with John Schoonmaker, one of the ma...

What is up everyone!   We are back again with an awesome guest who is a young gun in the game of slinging mortgages.  We interviewed Eric Braun of Contour Mortgage out of Garden City, NY.  Eric is a young man who's on a mission to be the biggest mortgage broker in the industry.  We start off the podcast talking about Eric's journey coming into an industry that's full of older and well established profession...

In this episode of The Pesce & Lanzillotta Team Podcast, we discuss a recent transaction we had where solar panels were a real problem for our seller.  When we started this podcast, we would have never thought we'd be discussing a subject like this as its probably the most boring thing anyone could spend time listening to.  However, this recent issue with our seller made it very clear to us that some consumers don't u...

Whats up everyone?!?!  In this episode of The Pesce & Lanzillotta Team Podcast, we have a VERY SPECIAL guest on and his right hand man.  Tony Pec is the self proclaimed "Godfather of Instagram" - Just three years ago, Tony was a college graduate with an engineering degree who was day trading penny stocks.  He'd always spent a lot of time around his older network of friends at the cigar lounge, where he was downlo...

Bryan Casella is a Southern California real estate powerhouse!  Once an international basketball player, Bryan found himself in his mid 20's with a lot of uncertainty as to what he was going to do with his life.  He found real estate, and took to it like a natural.  He immediately made himself a name in the business by out working and out hustling the competition - eventually building what is today one of the most su...