The Main Line and Chester County Real Estate Blog

It has been a busy few weeks, showing houses, discussing the pros and cons of each with our client who was looking for something specific. A duplex or triplex multi-family unit.After several weeks we thought we had found the place, we wrote and presented a contract, after looking at local compara...

Barnacles, would you eat these?We were just in Portugal and ate at a restaurant recommended by one of our guides, Cervejeria Ramiro. If in Lisbon check it out, you do have to wait, but it is well organized. It was a fish restaurant and the Portuguese love their shellfish. He suggested a few dishe...

Last night I was supposed to meet a client to walk through a tenant occupied duplex property. My client is always early, so arriving about ten minutes before our meeting time for an organized Open House I got to talk to the listing agent and observe the other other people who came to see the prop...

When we visited England, we visited my niece and saw this Jamie Oliver Cookbook which was all vegetables, it went by a slightly different name in the UK. But, after photographing multiple recipes we ordered it here and this recipe caught my eye for sharing with my brother and his wife for July 4t...

So from our Tuesday Zoom meetings I got inspired by Paddy Deighan MBA JD PhD to use  https://creator.nightcafe.studio/. Over the past week I have been playing around with creating images from prompts I wrote with some extraordinary results.Today, I was inspired to use an image and use AI to alter...

I always regretted my Dad died so young, I was only in my twenties and ended up assuming the mantle of running the London end of an International antiques business with locations in London and New York. I missed the opportunity to listen to wisdom gained through the Second World War and building ...

I moved to the Philadelphia Main Line back in 1990 with my young family. A lot has changed since then, prices are much higher, interest rates fell and have now climbed higher. There has been lots of new construction either as new developments or infill construction using an existing lot and teari...

I was replying to a post yesterday and used this phrase; "slow listening". It got me thinking about it and what I meant by using that phrase.When I was younger, I often was ready with an answer before the person had finished talking. Sometimes I was so keen I would speak up before they had finish...

Yesterday, my buyer settled on this well remodeled home in Aldan at 426 W Wayne Avenue. We had been searching for a little while and when we walked into this home we both knew this was a great option for her. She had a nice surprise yesterday as she had thought the home was oil heating and I told...

I was refilling my propane gas tank this week and with summer just around the corner realized it was a good time to think about safety when using propane gas tanks. Safety Tips for Using Small Propane Tanks and Gas GrillsPropane grills are a popular choice for outdoor cooking due to their conven...