Inside the Freak-out Housing Market of Upstate New York
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: dbimages/Alamy Stock Photo In the past year, the real-estate market has — well, gone berserk. Houses are going for millions over asking in Boise and Albuquerque. Buyers are offering to name their firstborn baby after sellers. In this new series, Realtor Diaries, we talk to the people at the center of it all — about the 2 a.m. emails from clients, the 16-hour, six-day-a-week workdays, and the all-cash offers coming in from people who’ve never once seen the property they’re buying. This past year, in upstate New York, city dwellers swarmed...