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      <image:title>Blog - Home is where one starts from - A Reflection of 2025 - Dear friends,</image:title>
      <image:caption>Happy New Year’s Eve from my Airbnb in Costa Rica, where I’m spending the ethereal period between Christmas and New Year with my husband, my mum and my cousin! Spending this holiday with my cousin, who is living away from China for the first time and watching her experience her first snow, glazed ham and homesickness made me reflect on my own journey leaving home at fourteen. It also made me reflect on the concept of home, and how it evolves with time and our lived experiences.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Home is where one starts from - A Reflection of 2025 - Finding meaning in the daily</image:title>
      <image:caption>Most importantly, I am finding meaning in every conversation I have, every call I make, every step I take on my path, because I care about each of you whose journey that I am lucky enough to be a part of. Thank you, from the depth of my heart bursting with love and appreciation, for allowing me to be here for you. For being a part of my journey. For being a part of my home. Love, Judy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>November 30, 2025</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Certainty is seductive, and so are tax savings for owning homes! - How’s NYC Real Estate Post-Election?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The real estate market in New York City is busier than I would have imagined this holiday season. In Manhattan, buyers are not only out shopping, but they have also signed over 950 contracts in the month leading up to Thanksgiving! Sellers have put almost 350 new listings on the market in the single week before Thanksgiving – a 40% increase from the same week the prior year – with Lenox Hill seeing 36 new listings last week (for my buyers who are excited about moving uptown, this is wonderful news).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dear friends, October is typically a sad time in my world.  I grew up in a climate with lush green leaves reflecting sunshine from January to December and thick canopies that shielded me from the hot and high sun in October. And so, for the past 16 years since I moved to NYC, when October rolls around, while I see the leaves turn golden and red and appreciate the visual feast nature puts on, melancholy fills my heart as I dread the next six months of barren branches and lip-bursting wind. This October, for the first time since becoming a New Yorker, I find my heart filled with something else: so much hope, pinching-myself-to-see-if-it’s-true happiness, and bucket loads of gratitude.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In our new upstate garden the morning of our closing</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - 3 ways to get top dollar for your NYC home - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - 3 ways to get top dollar for your NYC home</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you’ve been watching the Manhattan real estate scene, you know it’s been a buyer’s market for a couple of years. What you might not have heard is that, back in Q2, sales volumes reached the highest level since 2023. Sure, inventory is at its highest in 5 years, and buyers have options. But here’s the thing: homes are selling, and at strong prices—if they’re positioned right.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dear friends, Wherever you are this weekend, I hope you take a moment to pause and look around you, and savor the sky, the air, the sounds, the people by your side.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - From founding a translation agency at 23 to building a real estate practice in New York City - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - From founding a translation agency at 23 to building a real estate practice in New York City</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dear friends, The air conditioning was freezing in the Hong Kong office where I signed the incorporation papers for my first company at age 23. I was excited, but nervous. The AC helped calm me down, but my fingertips were ice cold. I had put down HK$10,000 (about USD $1,300 today) for the initial company shares, and received a heavy emerald green binder box with my company ink seal and a clip seal with “Cantos Translations Limited 融意专业翻译有限公司” carved out in what looked like gold.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - From founding a translation agency at 23 to building a real estate practice in New York City - 4. Be authentic and be yourself. You’ll attract the people who align.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I grew up in mainland China, spent my teen years in England and France, and landed in New York for college. For a long time, I tried to “blend in.” I wanted to speak English without a foreign accent. I cut my hair really short to try to look more mature. Perhaps it’s because I have the privilege to live in one of the biggest melting pots in the world. Perhaps it’s because my friend pulled me aside and told me point-blank that I didn’t need to keep trimming my hair to seem professional (and that she didn’t really like my short hair—which, while harsh, was something I secretly agreed with lol).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From the Brooklyn Heights promenade. I took this pic in July 2025, 10 years into my entrepreneurial journey!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>What’s the difference between a co-op and a condo?  The most important difference: ownership!   Buying a condo is much more similar to buying a house—you’re buying actual real property, with a title and your name on it. If you stop paying your mortgage or real estate taxes, the bank or the government can foreclose on your property.   Buying a co-op is not buying real property. It’s more like getting into business with your neighbors in the same building. You’re actually buying shares of a company that owns the entire building. Along with the certificate of shares, you get a “proprietary lease” which entitles you to live in your particular unit for as long as you own your shares of the co-op. If you stop paying your bills, your neighbors might have to pick up your slack. Do you see why co-ops might have a harsher approval process than condos now?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The 4-step guide to negotiate a lease renewal. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The 4-step guide to negotiate a lease renewal. - #2. Know your options for renewing your lease</image:title>
      <image:caption>The key to negotiating is being able to walk away. But… how much exactly would that cost? Calculate how expensive moving would be (include moving company fees, possible broker fees, other building fees, etc.) How does that number compare to your current apartment's proposed new rent?  This will allow you to come up with a counteroffer, and help you know how much you're willing (and not willing) to spend on your current place.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>No, I’m not talking about Greenpoint or Astoria. (Maybe next blog?) I’m talking about the Upper East Side! Seriously, the UES has been topping the most-searched neighborhood chart in Manhattan for many months now. So why is the UES getting all the love? Because it offers some of the best value for your money for real estate in all of the city, and it has so much to offer for just about everyone, with the convenient subway access, shops, restaurants, Central Park and East River Parks, world-class museums and more!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How moving in together almost broke us up, and the 3 real estate lessons learned - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:caption>And some days you just need to sit down with the most important person in your life and talk about money. Or how to get enough of it to buy a home together, since for so many people it’s the biggest financial investment they’ll ever make. That’s why, after you’ve had “the talk” with your partner, you should both have a talk with me. I’ve been helping couples navigate the world of real estate since my first day on the job! That’s because being a real estate advisor is kind of like being a couple’s therapist. My role is both to be your representative when you buy or sell your home but also to be someone you can direct your thornier questions to. And I don’t take sides when it comes to sharing my professional advice, even if I’m your wife’s college roommate.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dear friends, A few months ago, I announced that I was going independent. I’m still immensely grateful for all the support you’ve given me—it’s really made the transition feel so right, and I continue to be reminded of why I made this momentous decision in the first place. It’s about the people I’m lucky enough to help, and the journey we’re taking together.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Let’s get right to the topic du jour: Renting vs buying, or “to buy or not to buy.” (Years of English Literature classes prepared me to come up with this pun.) I was recently quoted in Investopedia on this age-old question, and I wanted to share my full approach with you all here. As you might know, I work on both rentals and sales, and part of my responsibility is figuring out whether renting or buying is the better fit for each of my clients. There are many ways to look at the rent versus buy conundrum.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dear friends, I wrote and rewrote this many times before it arrived here. I have always wanted to provide value in each of my blogs, both educational and entertainment. But this month, I had a dilemma. Something monumental has happened in my world, in my work as a real estate agent, and it’s caused me to reflect on the journey I have had since arriving in New York 15 years ago. I really wanted to share my reflections with you, so I’m dedicating this month’s newsletter to this.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Within a short amount of time, the stock market bounced back, with the S&amp;P 500 reaching new all-time highs. And the Fed kept rates the same last month, although they announced it was time for a policy change. The path for future Fed rate cuts is more certain. As shown by the Fed funds futures, the market predicts a 0.25% rate cut for this month and potentially a whopping 0.5% cut in the Fed’s meeting in November.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In April 2021, after running my own translation business for six years (woohoo Cantos Translations!), I got my real estate license. Interest rates were 2.65%, open houses had long lines, and bidding wars were happening everywhere.</image:caption>
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