Issue № 04Spring 2026

Section 06 · The Journal

Notes from
the desk.

The journal runs once a month. Market notes, case files, and a handful of essays on the practice. No email gate, no signup wall — read it the way you’d read a magazine you picked up.

№ 01The lead — April 2026

Editorial overhead of a curated UES desk — fountain pen, leather binder, vintage Manhattan map, brass desk lamp.

№ 16April 2026 · Market Note

The discount window is closed on the Upper East Side.

Six factors are running in the same direction this spring: low inventory of restored prewars, a wave of post-pandemic family upgrades, the return of foreign buyers from a small list of jurisdictions, and three building-specific events that drained the comp set above $8M.

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№ 02Recent entries

Three more from the season.

Hamptons cedar-shingle house from the dune side at golden hour.

№ 15March 2026 · East End

What the Hamptons looks like at $30M+ this season.

Four houses I'd consider, two I'd pass, and the comps that explain why pricing has gotten harder to read.

9 min read

Study in a prewar apartment — bookcases, leather chair, drafting table.

№ 14February 2026 · Case File

An off-market case file: how a $14M Carnegie Hill listing closed in nine days.

Annotated timeline, the four conversations that mattered, and what carried the deal across the finish line.

11 min read

Carnegie Hill prewar penthouse terrace, Central Park canopy in distance.

№ 13January 2026 · Buyer's Side

Three reasons a working buyer should still consider new development this year.

Not every new building is the same investment thesis. The window for the right ones is narrower than the press suggests.

7 min read

“The four conversations that decided this deal happened in the order most agents reverse: closing attorney first, lender second, seller third, buyer fourth. The brokerage was the smallest part of the work.”
— From entry №14 · the Carnegie Hill case file

№ 03The archive — entries 03 through 12

The back catalog.

Ten earlier entries below. The full archive (entries 01–02 included) is available in print on request, along with the four annual market reports.

№ 12Dec 2025Year in review — closings, narrative, and the four trades I'd repeat.Read →
№ 11Nov 2025What an off-market introduction actually looks like, end-to-end.Read →
№ 10Oct 2025Carnegie Hill: the quietest market that isn't.Read →
№ 09Sep 2025The pre-listing renovation question, reframed.Read →
№ 08Aug 2025Why I won't take a 5% co-broke on a $20M deal — and what that costs me.Read →
№ 07Jul 2025Wainscott vs. Sagaponack on the comp file: a full year of closings.Read →
№ 06Jun 2025Three buyers' broker mistakes I see at the $8M+ tier.Read →
№ 05May 2025Reading the May numbers: where the inventory is hiding.Read →
№ 04Apr 2025What a 36-page brochure does that a website can't.Read →
№ 03Mar 2025The closing attorney is the most underrated relationship in real estate.Read →

№ 04Market reports — printed quarterlies

Three printed reports — by request.

We publish four longer-form reports a year. Each runs 18–28 pages, case-bound, mailed to current and past clients. Available on request to qualified readers — no email-list trade, no marketing sequence.

MR-04Spring 2026 Market ReportManhattan and Hamptons. 24 pages, comp file appendix.April 2026
MR-03Year-End 2025 Closing BriefEvery Voss closing in 2025 with the metric set.January 2026
MR-02Off-Market AnnualTwelve off-market introductions made in 2025, anonymized.December 2025

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