I would rather show you how I think than claim expertise, so this site will fill up over time with writing about the Buffalo and Western New York housing market — the clear, useful analysis I would want if I were the one buying or selling.

A note on what shapes that writing. My background is in computer science and applied statistics, and I approach pricing as a data problem rather than a matter of instinct. Buffalo makes that genuinely interesting: the housing stock is old and uneven, two homes on the same street can be worth markedly different amounts for reasons that aren’t apparent from the listing, and taxes, weather, and reassessment all shift the math. Those are the things worth writing about.

The pieces here will favor the practical and the specific — how to read a comparable sale, what actually drives price in a given neighborhood, where the local market is tightening or loosening, and the structural quirks of older Buffalo homes that catch buyers off guard. Some of it will be data-driven; some will simply reflect what I have learned on the ground.

I won’t commit to a posting schedule I can’t sustain, or pretend that every week brings something newsworthy. I would rather publish something worth reading when I have something worth saying. If that’s useful to you, check back — and if a question about your own situation comes up in the meantime, reach out. That’s what I’m here for.