{"id":111496,"date":"2026-08-06T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnerwithez.com\/blog\/?p=111496"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:14:34","slug":"new-york-real-estate-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnerwithez.com\/blog\/new-york-real-estate-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Real Estate Leads: Reach Owners Before They List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New York has the lowest homeownership rate in the country, about 54%. It also has 35 counties, out of 62, where more than 70% of households own their home. Both numbers are correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gap between them is where most New York real estate leads come from. Four counties produce that statewide figure: Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. Everywhere else the owner base is deep, stable, and almost entirely out of the market on any given day. Homeowners now hold a median of 11 years before they sell, a record according to the National Association of Realtors. That is a long time to be invisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An owner who bought eleven years ago is not looking for an agent this week. They are watching their value and wondering what their taxes are doing. They have told no one. By the time they call somebody, the decision is mostly made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows is where New York’s owner base sits, what moves it, and how a team reaches them in the years before anyone raises a hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York’s owner base is bigger and more concentrated than the headline number says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York has the lowest homeownership rate of the fifty states, roughly 54% against 65.8% nationally, and that figure is the most misleading number a New York team can plan against. It describes a state almost nobody works in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Buildings of ten or more units make up 90% of Manhattan’s housing stock. A borough of rental towers reports a low ownership rate because it is a borough of rental towers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Four counties produce it. As of 2020, homeownership ran 45% in Queens, 30% in Brooklyn, 24% in Manhattan, and 20% in the Bronx, according to the New York State Comptroller’s analysis of Census data. Housing stock explains the whole thing. Buildings with ten or more units make up 90% of Manhattan’s housing, 68% of the Bronx’s, 42% of Brooklyn’s, and 36% of Queens’s. A borough of rental towers reports a low ownership rate because it is a borough of rental towers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comparison across states lands the same point. Only two others sat below 60% in 2021, California at 55.9% and Nevada at 59.1%, and both share New York’s heavy multi-unit stock. In nearly all thirteen states above 70%, single-family homes make up more than 70% of the housing. Ownership rates track building types closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now take those four counties out. Every remaining county in the state sits above the statewide average, and 35 of New York’s 62 counties are above 70% homeownership<\/strong>. Single-unit homes are the majority of the stock everywhere outside those four. That is the New York a team upstate, on Long Island, or in the Hudson Valley is standing in, and it looks nothing like the headline. New York’s own rate has been climbing, from a low of 50.2% in mid-2018 to 53.6% by mid-2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planning error is easy to make and expensive to hold. A broker who reads “lowest homeownership rate in the country” and concludes the owner base is thin has described Manhattan and applied it to Oneida County<\/a>. The reverse is closer to true. New York held about 20.0 million residents on July 1, 2025, per Census Vintage 2025 estimates published by the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics, and the large majority of owner-occupied homes sit in counties where seven in ten households or better own the roof over their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the pool is deep. It is also slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homeowners nationally now hold a median of 11 years before selling, a record, according to National Association of Realtors data carried in the New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae 2025 annual report. Put that tenure against an owner base this large and the arithmetic gives a steady, predictable flow of sellers arriving out of a very deep pool, spread across sixty-two counties, most of them years from a decision on any given day. The pool stays large. The wait between listings gets longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the shape of the opportunity, and it is also the problem. The owners who will list next year are sitting in those counties right now, in homes they bought around 2015. None of them look like a lead today. They are not on a list, they have not filled out a form, and they will not respond warmly to an agent who turns up in the last three weeks of an eleven-year hold. For a team building a pipeline in this state, that is the whole problem worth solving: finding those owners early, and staying in front of them through the years in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What New York’s statewide sales numbers say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York home sales have been flat for three years, and flat is the national condition rather than a New York one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the ten-year record, compiled by the New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae from the state’s multiple listing services. Closed sales ran 129,833 in 2016, 133,676 in 2017, 130,914 in 2018, 130,802 in 2019, and 129,661 in 2020, a five-year band about three percent wide. 2021 spiked to 149,690. 2022 came back to 132,661. Then 2023 stepped down to 106,474, and the level held: 105,340 in 2024, and 105,279 in 2025. The ten-year average sits near 125,400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 step down was real and it has not reversed. It was also not a New York event. National existing-home sales, per the National Association of Realtors, ran 4.10 million in 2023, 4.06 million in 2024, and 4.06 million in 2025, a two-year move of about one percent. New York’s equivalent move over the same three years was 1.1 percent. Two flat lines, one national and one statewide, track each other almost exactly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If someone has told you this market is dying, that is the number to hand them. Three years at the same level describes stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prices ran the other direction throughout. The statewide median sale price was $234,000 in 2016 and $430,000 in 2025, and it reached a record $475,000 in June 2026. Inventory has now risen year over year for sixteen consecutive months, reaching 32,508 homes on the market in June 2026, and pending sales that month were up 8.1 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those last two figures measure different things and get conflated constantly. Inventory counts homes sitting on the market at a moment in time. Closed sales count deals finished across a period. Inventory climbing means supply is rebuilding from a low base, 23,405 homes at the end of 2025 against 58,544 back in 2016, which is a separate statement from anything about how many New Yorkers are buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a team planning the next two years, the read is unglamorous and useful. Sales volume is steady, supply is improving, and prices are at records. Nothing in the statewide data argues against building a pipeline in this state. The figure that should shape the plan sits somewhere else entirely: the eleven years an owner holds before they call anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most New York owners are years from listing, and they plan in private<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At any given moment, no more than 5% to 10% of people are actively buying or selling a home. Set that against the 105,279 sales New York closed in 2025 and the proportion gets concrete. A small, visible band of transactions sits on top of an owner base spread across sixty-two counties, and the great majority of that base never surfaces in a given year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The owners who will list in 2029 are sitting in these houses right now, years into a hold that no one else can see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Homeownership moves through stages, and only the last one looks like a transaction. A person dreams. Then they gather information, what homes cost in the places they are weighing and what their own place is worth. Then they plan, which means financing, payments, the logistics of a move, and often the school calendar. Only then do they become active, first on one side of the move and then, because most people are both, on the other. That path runs anywhere from a few days to several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The part that decides who wins the listing is that most of it happens in private.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a couple, one spouse frequently explores a move, or runs a valuation on the house, for months before raising it with the other. Someone anticipating a major life change may plan six to twelve months ahead of saying anything to anyone. These are not people being coy. They are working through the largest financial decision of their lives and they would like to think about it before a stranger starts calling. That is precisely why they will not do that thinking anywhere a single search turns into a wave of calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put that against New York specifically. The owner base sits in the thirty-five counties above 70% homeownership. The median hold is eleven years. Somewhere around year eight or nine, a homeowner in Oneida or Ontario or Dutchess County<\/a> starts checking what their place is worth, and tells nobody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every lead source built to surface people who have already raised a hand is competing for the last few weeks of that process. By the time a form gets filled in, the owner has been thinking for a year or more and has usually formed an impression of who they will call. The agent who arrives at the form is arriving late to a decision that got made somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teams that win those listings were already present through the years in between. That is a different discipline from prospecting, and it is the one this state rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The buyer you are not working is the seller you want<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most New York teams run two separate campaigns. One markets “list with me” to homeowners. The other buys buyer leads, usually cold and usually shared with several other agents. Two budgets, two message sets, and two lists all aim at what the team treats as two different populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are mostly the same people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First-time buyers accounted for 21% of all home purchases by the middle of 2025, according to National Association of Realtors data carried in the New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae annual report. That leaves about four in five purchasers holding a house they plan to sell so they can buy the next one. The same report puts the typical first-time buyer at a record age of 40, and the median age of all buyers at 59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be precise about what that means. On any single house, the buyer and the seller are different people. The point is that across a move, one person is usually both, and they almost always start on the buy side. An owner weighing a sale begins by finding out what their equity buys somewhere else. They shop first and list second. A team chasing listings alone hands four in five of those people to whichever agent met them while they were still shopping, and that agent collects the listing later as a matter of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three groups sit inside that, and they need different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one in five buying a first home have no equity to work with. They need affordability, plain explanation, and enough confidence to act. The four in five who are both need something harder: a credible number on the house they are leaving behind, a sequence that keeps them from carrying two mortgages or none, and both sides of the move run as a single transaction. Seller-only situations are the minority, and they look like an estate settling, a landlord cashing out, or a parent moving in with adult children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most agents pick a lane and stay in it. The advantage available in New York comes from reading behavior instead, and serving whichever side is live at the moment. A valuation checked, an equity question asked, a home-value page opened twice in a week: those say the listing discussion has started. A search picked back up, an alert opened the morning it arrives, a showing booked: those say the purchase is live. Most people generate both sets, in order, buying first and listing a year or two behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is what the two-campaign split costs in a state with an eleven-year median hold. The buyer lead a team writes off as unqualified in March is frequently the listing that closes with somebody else in the spring after next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What moves a New York owner to sell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Four things move a New York owner: equity, a life event, timing, and taxes. The last one carries more weight in this state than in most, and it is the one an agent can see coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York carries one of the heaviest residential property tax loads in the country. Three of the six US counties where the median property tax bill runs above $10,000 are Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester, according to the Tax Foundation’s county property tax data. Half the counties in America at that level sit in one state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mechanism matters more than the number. A recurring annual cost comes out of the sale price rather than getting added to it. A buyer prices a home on what it costs to hold, not on the sticker, and the house delivers the same shelter either way, so the tax gets absorbed into what someone is willing to pay. A tax bill that climbs over a decade holds down what a home can eventually sell for. Almost no owner works that out on their own. They see the bill go up and they file it under annoyance, not under equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York City second-home surcharge that took effect in July 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

New York City added a new one in 2026, and it is the sharpest example of everything above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of New York State’s fiscal 2026-2027 budget, enacted in May 2026, the city now imposes an annual surcharge on residential property that does not serve as a primary residence. It took effect July 1, 2026 and runs until June 30, 2031, and it carries a retroactive edge, because it reaches obligations back to January 1, 2026. It applies to one-to-three-family homes, townhouses, condominiums, and cooperatives, and the Department of Finance makes an annual determination of whether a property is somebody’s primary residence. A trust, an LLC, or a partnership does not sidestep it, because the rules look through to the individual behind the entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read those two blocks together rather than separately. The co-op and condo percentages look punitive because they apply to the Department of Finance’s existing comparable-rental valuation, which runs substantially below what those units sell for. Quote 6.5% against a sales price and you badly overstate the bill. From July 1, 2028 condos and co-ops get revalued on comparable sales and everything converges on the $5 million threshold and the lower rates. Sullivan & Cromwell and Holland & Knight both flagged the valuation gap in their 2026 client alerts: do not read those percentages against a sales price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The calendar matters as much as the rate. The Department of Finance must notify every covered owner by August 30, 2026, and an owner who misses the department’s response deadline loses the right to contest non-primary status for that year. Estimates of the scope run from roughly 10,000 properties to the 14,000 Holland & Knight cited in its June 2026 alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now run the arithmetic on a Class 1 property, because those already use market value. A $6 million townhouse held as a second home carries $48,000 a year on top of existing taxes. Discounted at 5% across the five years to the 2031 sunset, that stream is worth roughly $208,000, about 3.5% of the value. If buyers instead assume the surcharge gets extended and price it as permanent, the same stream capitalizes to roughly $960,000, about 16%. Those are illustrative figures on stated assumptions rather than a valuation of anyone’s home, and none of this is tax advice. The point is the spread. Whether the surcharge expires or renews is worth about three quarters of a million dollars on one property, and nobody can tell an owner which way to price it without doing the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other three, sized for New York<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Equity is the one owners misjudge most. An owner who bought in 2015 and held the median eleven years is sitting on a different number than they think, and county medians in 2025 ran from $153,000 in St. Lawrence to $805,000 in Nassau. The gap between what someone assumes and what the data says is the whole conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life events arrive on their own schedule. Timing is harder in New York than most places, because selling one home and buying another without carrying two mortgages or none is a genuine problem in counties running 0.5 to 1.2 months of supply. And relocation moves a steady share of owners every year, which the next section takes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every one of these is a question whose answer is a number. An automated valuation model, or AVM, paired with property-tax detail at the state, county, city, and ZIP level is what lets a partner answer that question before the owner has thought to ask anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where New York’s owner base is deepest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York’s ten largest counties by population are not its ten deepest markets for owner-occupied homes, and the reason is the one from earlier: four of the top six are the four counties with the lowest ownership rates in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n

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New York homeowners now hold a median of eleven years before they sell. Most of that time, nobody knows a decision is coming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Population figures are Census Vintage 2025 estimates published by the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suffolk<\/a> closed 13,111 sales in 2025, more than any other county in the state. Kings has the largest population in New York and a fundamentally different business behind it. Onondaga, which contains Syracuse<\/a>, sits eleventh at 466,584 residents and therefore never appears on a top-ten population list at all. A team choosing ground off population rank alone walks past it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we ran the numbers a different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Department of State publishes its active real estate license file daily, listing every salesperson and broker holding a current license along with a business address. The New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae publishes closed sales by county. Our analysis joined the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One caveat belongs in front of the table, because any working broker will raise it immediately. The raw licensee count means little on its own, since a large share of licensed agents close nothing in a given year. The ratio between counties matters more than the headline count, because whatever share of licensees sits inactive applies roughly evenly across all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County<\/th>Active licensees<\/th>Closed sales, 2025<\/th>Closed sales per licensee<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Oneida<\/td>661<\/td>1,578<\/td>2.39<\/td><\/tr>
Monroe<\/td>3,518<\/td>7,020<\/td>2.00<\/td><\/tr>
Onondaga<\/td>2,188<\/td>4,141<\/td>1.89<\/td><\/tr>
Erie<\/td>4,354<\/td>7,461<\/td>1.71<\/td><\/tr>
Ulster<\/td>1,105<\/td>1,721<\/td>1.56<\/td><\/tr>
Orange<\/td>2,282<\/td>2,985<\/td>1.31<\/td><\/tr>
Dutchess<\/td>2,059<\/td>2,483<\/td>1.21<\/td><\/tr>
Suffolk<\/td>13,837<\/td>13,111<\/td>0.95<\/td><\/tr>
Rockland<\/td>2,502<\/td>2,298<\/td>0.92<\/td><\/tr>
Westchester<\/td>9,833<\/td>7,582<\/td>0.77<\/td><\/tr>
Nassau<\/td>16,599<\/td>9,838<\/td>0.59<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The spread runs about four to one, and it runs upstate. Roughly six in ten of New York’s licensees list a business address in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, or Westchester, the end of the table where transactions per licensee are thinnest. Those are also the counties where the owner base is shallowest. The deep owner bases and the favorable ratios sit in the same places, and those places are not where most agents are standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three caveats belong on the record. The county field records a licensee’s business address rather than where they transact, so a White Plains brokerage counts in Westchester while selling in Putnam. The five New York City counties are left out because the state association’s Manhattan data is incomplete and borough licensees do heavy rental and cooperative business that never reaches a sales count. Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Montgomery, and Schoharie are left out because the Greater Capital Association of REALTORS\u00ae reports them separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of that changes the shape. A team in Oneida or Monroe County<\/a> works a market with roughly three times the closed sales per licensed agent that a Nassau team works, in counties where seven in ten households own their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check whether your county is still open.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conditions across New York’s regions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No two New York regions hand an agent the same conditions, and the differences run wider than any statewide average shows.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Capital Region grew 1.0% since 2020 on the strength of Schenectady and Saratoga counties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Population figures come from the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics; market figures from the New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae 2025 annual report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mid-Hudson<\/strong> is where New York is growing. Rockland added 5.6% since 2020 and Orange 4.1%, the two strongest county gains in the state, and Orange County’s median moved from $350,000 in 2021 to $450,000 in 2025. Dutchess, Ulster, and Sullivan all grew as well. For a team, this is the region where new owners keep arriving and the owner base is expanding rather than turning over in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long Island<\/strong> runs on price. Nassau’s 2025 median reached $805,000 and Suffolk’s $670,000, and Suffolk closed 13,111 sales, more than any county in New York. The equity conversations here involve the largest numbers in the state outside Manhattan, and the property tax load is among the heaviest in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Capital Region<\/strong> grew 1.0% on the strength of Schenectady and Saratoga. Note a practical wrinkle for anyone comparing county data: Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Montgomery, and Schoharie report through the Greater Capital Association of REALTORS\u00ae rather than in the state association’s county tables, so those counties will look absent from statewide county lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Finger Lakes and Western New York<\/strong> are where homes sell fastest and above asking. Monroe County ran 0.5 months of supply in 2025 with sellers receiving 115.1% of original list price, and Wayne County reached 110.4%. Statewide the figure is 101.6%. Erie County<\/a> closed 7,461 sales, up 2.2% in a year when the state was flat, at 1.2 months of supply and 105.4% of list. Ontario, Livingston, Genesee, and Niagara all cleared 100%. Both regions lost population since 2020, and both are seller markets. Those two facts sit together without contradiction, and any read that treats a falling headcount as a falling transaction count has confused the two.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monroe County ran 0.5 months of supply in 2025, with sellers receiving 115.1% of original list price.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Central New York<\/strong> is the region with a date on its calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Micron build in Onondaga County<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Micron’s semiconductor campus in the Town of Clay is the largest private investment in New York’s history. The Governor’s office put the figures on the record in October 2025: up to $100 billion, 9,000 direct jobs on site, and over 50,000 new permanent regional jobs across thirty years, alongside tens of thousands of construction jobs over twenty. The campus will hold roughly 2.4 million square feet of clean room, the largest in the nation, and by the end of the decade one in four US-made chips is projected to come from in and around Upstate New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figure a team should mark is not the headline investment. State projections put an additional $3.3 billion of annual disposable income into Central New York by 2035<\/strong>, averaging $5.4 billion a year through 2055. That is buying power arriving on a published schedule, in Onondaga and the ring counties around it: Madison, Oswego, Cayuga, and Oneida. Onondaga’s median already climbed 48.5% between 2021 and 2025, the largest four-year gain of any large county in the state, at 1.2 months of supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supply has started to move with it. Onondaga County<\/a> issued more than 1,700 housing permits in 2025, a 400% increase over two years, and upward of 1,300 of those were multifamily units, better than double the county’s ten-year average, according to County Executive Ryan McMahon’s March 2026 State of the County address. Stock is arriving on roughly the same clock as the buying power, which rewards the team already known in Onondaga and its ring counties when those buyers show up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mohawk Valley, Southern Tier, and North Country<\/strong> lost population since 2020, at 1.0%, 2.1%, and 2.9% respectively. Those are real numbers and worth planning around, but they describe how many people live in a region, not how many homes change hands there. Oneida County, inside the Mohawk Valley, closed 1,578 sales in 2025 and carries the highest closed-sales-per-licensee ratio in this article. Jefferson County closed 1,133, up 10.3% on the year. Steuben rose 7.3%, Chemung 3.4%. A region can hold fewer residents each year and still hand a well-positioned team more transactions per agent than Nassau County<\/a> does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counties and communities beyond the metros<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York’s growth over the past five years has not happened in its largest places, and the counties where a single team can still hold an entire market are the ones most agents never plan around.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An owner in Cooperstown or Rhinebeck thinks of themselves as living in that village, not in a county.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
County<\/th>Population, 2025<\/th>Change since 2020<\/th>Communities<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Saratoga<\/td>241,343<\/td>+2.5%<\/td>Ballston Spa (county seat), Saratoga Springs, Clifton Park, Malta<\/td><\/tr>
Schenectady<\/td>162,581<\/td>+2.9%<\/td>Schenectady (county seat), Niskayuna, Rotterdam, Scotia<\/td><\/tr>
Dutchess<\/td>300,708<\/td>+1.2%<\/td>Poughkeepsie (county seat), Beacon, Rhinebeck, Fishkill<\/td><\/tr>
Ulster<\/td>183,330<\/td>+0.8%<\/td>Kingston (county seat), New Paltz, Saugerties, Woodstock<\/td><\/tr>
Ontario<\/td>113,130<\/td>+0.6%<\/td>Canandaigua (county seat), Geneva, Victor, Naples<\/td><\/tr>
Oswego<\/td>118,569<\/td>+0.9%<\/td>Oswego (county seat), Fulton, Pulaski, Phoenix<\/td><\/tr>
Otsego<\/td>60,589<\/td>+3.6%<\/td>Cooperstown (county seat), Oneonta, Richfield Springs, Milford<\/td><\/tr>
Sullivan<\/td>80,586<\/td>+2.5%<\/td>Monticello (county seat), Liberty, Callicoon, Livingston Manor<\/td><\/tr>
Warren<\/td>65,020<\/td>-1.1%<\/td>Lake George, Glens Falls, Queensbury, Bolton Landing<\/td><\/tr>
Montgomery<\/td>50,046<\/td>+1.0%<\/td>Fonda (county seat), Amsterdam, Canajoharie, St. Johnsville<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Population figures come from Census Vintage 2025 estimates published by the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at the growth column. Montgomery County<\/a>, with roughly 50,000 residents, was the fastest-growing county in all of New York in the most recent year at 0.94%. Otsego<\/a> added 3.6% since 2020, third-best in the state. Sullivan<\/a> added 2.5%. None of those counties holds a major metro, and none of them shows up in a conversation about where New York real estate is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transaction activity followed. Warren County<\/a> closed 780 sales in 2025, up 12.7% on the year. Oswego closed 949, up 7.0%. Sullivan closed 806, up 4.1%. Ulster closed 1,721, up 3.4%. Those are gains posted in a year when the statewide number moved 0.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These counties matter for the reason this whole article has been circling. Homeownership runs highest here, well above the 70% mark that 35 of New York’s 62 counties clear, which means the owner base per capita is deeper than anywhere downstate. The transaction-per-licensee math from earlier favors them by roughly three to one. The competitive picture changes shape entirely at this scale. A team that becomes the recognized name in Otsego or Montgomery County is up against a handful of local firms, where the same team in a downstate metro would be one of several thousand licensees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities carry weight here that census tracts do not. An owner in Cooperstown<\/a>, Rhinebeck, Skaneateles, or Bolton Landing thinks of themselves as living in that village, not in Otsego or Dutchess or Warren County. The teams that win these markets are the ones whose name attaches to the village, and that recognition compounds over the eleven years a typical owner sits in the house before calling anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The owner who leaves still owns a house here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A past client who begins planning a move out of the area pulls the agent’s attention toward the purchase they cannot serve, and the listing they were positioned to win changes hands to somebody else before they ever see it coming.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Start with the size of the flow, because the story most people carry about New York migration is running behind the data. Net domestic migration was negative 130,436 in the 2024 American Community Survey. In 2021 it was negative 283,792. In 2018, before the pandemic, it was negative 203,567. Fewer New Yorkers are leaving on net today than were leaving in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gross numbers matter more than the net for anyone building a pipeline. Across New York’s ten largest migration-partner states in 2024, 700,172 people moved in or out. That nets to negative 130,436, which works out to roughly 285,000 people arriving from those ten states against roughly 415,000 departing. Close to seven people move in for every ten who move out. New York posted outright net gains from California at 6,440, Colorado at 4,193, and the District of Columbia at 1,678. New Jersey and Florida sit in the top three for both directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The population line closes the argument. New York counted 20,203,696 residents at the 2020 Census, bottomed at 19,713,025 in 2022, and stood at 20,002,427 on July 1, 2025. That leaves the state one percent below 2020 and up 289,402 from the trough. Natural increase now runs about 43,000 a year against net international migration of roughly 100,000. All of these figures come from the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics, working from Census and ACS data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the part a team can act on. Every departure is two pieces of business, not one. The purchase happens in a market the agent cannot serve, and it is the piece everyone fixates on. The listing is the house the client still owns in the agent’s own county, and it is worth more to that agent than the referral fee on the other end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That listing is what slips. A client planning a move wants a feel for what their money stretches to in the new market, so they open a legacy portal, connect with whoever is attached to a listing there, and start a relationship the original agent never sees. The home in the agent’s market then lists with that new contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Census figures put the base rate at roughly 2.1% of Americans moving to a different state each year, and another 3% or so moving to a different county within their own state. Over the years a team stays in touch with a client, those odds compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National coverage changes what the agent can see. When the client researches Charlotte or Tampa or Saratoga on the partner’s own co-branded platform instead of leaving for a portal, that search surfaces as an early signal, months before anything lists. The agent reaches out while the local listing is still winnable, talks through selling the current home, and refers the client onward for a fee. The move stops being a loss and becomes two transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remote and hybrid work is a settled buying signal in New York’s smaller counties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Remote work stopped shrinking several years ago, and the federal data has refused to cooperate with the obituaries ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the fourth quarter of 2024 the Bureau of Labor Statistics put the number of Americans doing at least part of their work from home at 36.7 million, against 32.5 million in the same quarter a year earlier, and the national telework rate reached 23.4%. Employers say the same about their own plans. The Business Trends and Outlook Survey, run by the Census Bureau across roughly 150,000 US firms, found 31.2% with at least one employee putting in a full day from home, and those same employers projected that level holding five years out. Pew’s October 2024 survey found 75% of employees whose jobs can be done remotely working from home at least some of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration consequence shows up in federal data too. Rural counties gained 974,000 net migrants between 2020 and 2024 according to the USDA Economic Research Service, and the inflow concentrated in working-age adults between 25 and 44 instead of retirees. That is the remote-work-eligible cohort, and it is the first sustained rural in-migration of its kind in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every figure above is national. None of them becomes a New York statistic by being repeated next to one, and any agent quoting them as local numbers will get caught. What they establish is that the demand is real and lasting. New York’s own growth data establishes where it is landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mid-Hudson counties sit inside reach of the city without city pricing, which is why Rockland and Orange lead the state in growth and why Dutchess, Ulster, and Sullivan followed them up. The Capital Region ring runs the same pattern through Saratoga, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Washington. Otsego, Warren, and the Finger Lakes counties offer the lifestyle version of it. Those are the same counties that showed up in the growth rankings earlier in this article, and the overlap is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What matters for a working team is what these buyers ask for, because it differs from what listing copy in those counties usually describes. They want a room with a door that closes, not a corner of the dining area. Households running two remote jobs look for a separate structure or an accessory dwelling unit. They need more square footage than the same budget bought them before. And they need broadband that holds a video call, which across parts of the North Country and the Southern Tier is a genuine filter on which homes are even viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A partner who knows which streets in Saugerties or Ballston Spa have the service, and who prices a home office as a feature rather than a spare bedroom, is talking to that buyer directly. Most listings in those counties still say “bonus room.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See whether your county is still available.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why you cannot simply call them<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The obvious way to reach an owner who is years from listing is to pick up the phone, and New York restricts that channel more tightly than most states realize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York General Business Law section 399-z is the state’s telemarketing and do-not-call statute, and it carries a provision that catches real estate prospecting directly. Subsection 5(a) makes it unlawful for a telemarketer doing business in New York to knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any person located in a county, city, town, or village under a declared state of emergency or disaster emergency, under sections 24 or 28 of the Executive Law. Statewide declarations count. The New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae maintains a standing advisory on this and tracks which executive orders are live, because the answer changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cold calling is not prohibited outright in New York. It is heavily conditioned, and during declared emergencies it is prohibited, and those declarations recur often enough that the association keeps a running page about it. None of what follows is legal advice, and any team running a calling program should be checking with their broker, their counsel, and that advisory rather than with an article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The penalty structure is what makes this a broker’s problem rather than an agent’s. Violations carry a civil penalty of up to $20,000 each after notice and a hearing, every unlawful call counts as a separate violation, and the Division of Licensing can run suspension or revocation proceedings alongside. A dialer that makes several hundred calls into a covered area generates several hundred violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The routine obligations sit on top of that. Calls are restricted to the hours between 8am and 9pm at the consumer’s location. Opening disclosures are required. An internal do-not-call list has to be maintained and honored firm-wide, across every office and every agent, not agent by agent. And the statute carries a 24-month record-retention expectation covering dialing lists and their sources, proof of registry scrubs, suppression lists, and opt-out logs. A compliance program that cannot produce those records tends to get treated as no compliance program at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is section 175.25 of the Department of State’s regulations, which is where this stops being about the person who dialed. New York treats marketing and communications as part of the regulated brokerage business, so a broker who supplies scripts, distributes lists, or adopts calling tools is supervising a brokerage activity. The exposure runs to the broker-owner and the team lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchased lists make it worse rather than better. If a consumer on a vendor’s FSBO or expired list files a complaint and never gave consent, the law puts the job of proving consent on the broker, not on the consumer, and not on the vendor who sold the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more constraint shapes the early conversation. In April 2026 HUD issued a “Dear Colleague” letter telling licensees that discussing neighborhood crime rates and school quality does not violate federal fair housing law. NYSAR’s published position is that New York law is separate and its members may still face state liability for those discussions. So the two questions a planning buyer asks most are the two a New York licensee is least free to answer, which raises the value of a platform where the consumer researches schools, taxes, and neighborhoods on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this touches the approach that works. Nothing in section 399-z restricts sending an owner an accurate number about their own home, and nothing restricts being the place they already go when they want to look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How teams work the database today, and where each approach breaks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Every serious New York team already knows the database is the cheapest business they will ever get, and most of them have bought something to work it. Each of those tools solves a real piece of the problem, and none of them solves the piece that matters most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predictive-seller software scores a database and ranks who might list. The scoring works reasonably well. What it produces is a name with a probability attached, and a probability is not a relationship. Somebody still has to build the one that turns a high score into a signed listing agreement, and in New York that somebody is working under the calling constraints from the previous section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A home-value tool sends an automated estimate every month. That is a genuinely useful thread, and it is one thread. It tells an owner a number without giving them anywhere to go with it, and it does not know whether they opened it because they are curious or because they are eighteen months from a move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A done-for-you content service fills the inbox with material the team did not have to write, and that is worth something. It is also one more subscription and one more system to administer, it sits apart from wherever the client spends their time, and what it produces is opens rather than intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generic all-in-one platforms promise to hold all of it together. In practice the team spends the first quarter configuring the thing and every quarter after that administering it. The tool becomes a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shared leads bought from legacy real estate portals get sold to several teams at once, and they are priced highest in exactly the downstate counties where the transactions-per-licensee math from earlier is worst. A team in Nassau pays the most per lead to compete with the most agents for the fewest deals per head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paid ads and self-produced content work while the spend and the calendar hold. Both stop the week they slip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Door knocking and farming still produce in New York, precisely because neither is a phone call and neither runs into section 399-z. They are also capped by the number of hours in one person’s week, which is a ceiling no amount of skill raises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underneath all of it sits the same structural gap. None of these is a place a past client goes back to on their own. They are all outbound, and outbound decays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list decays too, whether or not anyone works it. Something on the order of 15% to 22% of email addresses stop working every year, and as many as one in ten people change their phone number. A database that looked complete eighteen months ago is partly unreachable today, and the contacts that go dark first are frequently the ones worth the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What changes the math is a place the client returns to voluntarily, month after month, for their own reasons. They come back to watch their value, to check what their taxes are doing, and to see what the house down the street just sold for. That kind of engagement turns a name in a CRM back into a conversation, and the conversion window it produces runs 30 to 60 days rather than the same afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What an Exclusive County Partnership gives a New York partner, and why counties close<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An Exclusive County Partnership hands one agent, team, or brokerage an entire New York county, co-branded across the consumer experience, and no second partner works that territory. The partner owns the leads. There is no charge per lead and no share of the commission at closing, so a strong month in Erie or Dutchess County is a strong month rather than a bigger invoice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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That structure matters more in this state than in most, for a reason the earlier sections established. Where a Nassau team pays the highest per-lead prices in New York to compete with the largest concentration of licensees for the fewest closed sales per head, a county-exclusive partner in Monroe or Oneida is not bidding against anybody for the same names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The connections convert differently too. Somebody who reaches a partner by way of ez Home Search did not come off a purchased list. They have been using the platform, they have shown intent through actual activity, and they are matched with one vetted local expert rather than sold to a rotation of whoever paid most. The Only Confidential Home Search is the name for that arrangement. Nobody sells, recycles, or forwards a person’s contact details and budget to a list of companies they never picked, and the search remains their own. ez Home Search treats that as the baseline, and it is the clearest expression of what the company promises with A Better Way To Discover Real Estate. Relationships that begin there tend to outlast a single closing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The database you already own<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The largest return available to a New York partner is not the new business. It is the database they already have, and the numbers on that are stark. Between 88% and 92% of buyers say they would use their agent again or recommend them, while only about 18% buy through an agent they have worked with before. Repeat and referral business already accounts for roughly 41% of the average agent’s volume. The gap between 90% and 18% is the whole opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ez Home Search handles that reactivation on the partner’s behalf, co-branded and done for them. Partners reactivate past clients, whether through repeat business or referral, at 2.5 to 5 times the market rate. The mechanism is not a newsletter. Past clients keep returning to the co-branded home search, the home value updates, and the listing alerts on their own, which is also how their current email and phone stay current instead of decaying at the 15% to 22% annual rate from the previous section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number the early owner is looking for<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Equity, a life event, timing, and taxes are what move a New York owner to sell. Every one of those is a question with a number as its answer, and the partner has the engine. The automated valuation model covers any US residential property, and the property-tax detail runs by state, county, city, and ZIP, which is what makes the carrying-cost conversation real in Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester. The consumer also researches schools and neighborhoods themselves, which carries particular weight in New York given the state liability question around those discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing who is close<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A contact who picks an old search back up, runs a second valuation, or revisits a saved home is closer to a decision than one who has gone quiet. ez Home Search tracks that and surfaces it in the CRM the team already runs. The connection is fullest in Follow Up Boss, where activity and saved homes appear in the dashboard and ezNurture handles automated follow-up, and it runs deepest in Sure Send\u2122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consent proof, in the state that needs it most<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Given section 399-z and the supervision rules, the compliance piece is not a nice-to-have for a New York broker. ezVerify.ai establishes that the person opted in and holds the recording that shows it, checks the number against a known-litigator database ahead of the first dial, and screens out anything sitting on the Do Not Call registry. It also enriches the contact record. Think of the whole thing as documentation rather than scoring. When a consent dispute arrives, it meets a record instead of an argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when a past client starts searching Charlotte or Sarasota, that activity surfaces on the partner’s own platform in time to win the listing they still own in Ontario or Ulster County<\/a>, rather than after it has gone to a stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why counties close<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One partner holds a county. That is the whole model, and it is also its constraint. A meaningful share of New York’s 62 counties are already claimed, more get taken every month, and the county exclusivity partners we work with consistently tell us the position compounds the longer they hold it. Whether a specific county is still open is not something an article can answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision in front of you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Three paths sit in front of a New York team that has read this far, and only one of them is new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most teams will stay where they are, competing for the small share of New York owners who have already raised a hand, in the counties where the most licensees chase the fewest transactions per head. The channel that gets them there is one the state periodically takes off the table, and the exposure lands on the broker’s license rather than the agent’s. It works. It has worked for years. It gets harder every year that the median hold stretches longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A team can also build the alternative itself. That means the property data, the valuation modeling, a consumer search experience good enough that people return to it voluntarily, the listing alerts, the home value updates, the consent infrastructure<\/a>, and the engineering to keep all of it running every minute of every day. Teams have tried. The data sourcing alone puts it out of reach for almost any single brokerage, and every hour spent administering it is an hour not spent on a client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Exclusive County Partnership is the one that is new. One team holds the county. The leads belong to the partner, with no charge per lead and no share of the commission. The platform is already built and already carries millions of consumers, and the partner’s brand sits on it across the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost side is straightforward. This is a territory commitment with a predictable fee attached, and it works on a 30 to 60 day conversion rhythm rather than a same-week one. A team that needs a closing this month should know that going in, because the model is built around owners who are years out, not days out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number worth remembering is what happens to the database a partner already owns. Partners reactivate past clients, through repeat business and referral, at 2.5 to 5 times the market rate. That figure covers no new names at all. It describes the contacts already sitting in the CRM, the ones the team earned once and then watched go quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you work in one of the 35 New York counties where more than seven in ten households own their home, the owners who will hand you listings in 2029 are sitting in those houses right now, eight years into an eleven-year hold, telling nobody. The only question that has a deadline attached is whether your county is still open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check whether your county is available.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why is New York’s homeownership rate the lowest in the country if most of its counties are above 70%?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Both facts are true at once, and the explanation is housing stock rather than appetite. New York’s statewide rate sits near 54%, the lowest of the fifty states, because four counties with enormous populations are dominated by rental buildings. Manhattan is 90% buildings of ten or more units, the Bronx 68%, Brooklyn 42%, and Queens 36%, and their ownership rates run from 20% to 45%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside those four, every county in the state exceeds the statewide average and 35 of 62 clear 70%, according to the New York State Comptroller’s analysis of Census data. A team planning against the statewide number is planning against a figure that describes almost none of the state’s geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can New York real estate agents legally cold call FSBOs and expired listings?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, and the answer changes depending on what emergency declarations are active, which is why this is a question for your broker and your counsel rather than an article. Cold calling is not prohibited outright in New York. It is heavily conditioned by General Business Law section 399-z, and during a declared state of emergency or disaster emergency it is prohibited into the affected county, city, town, or village, including under statewide declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penalties run up to $20,000 per violation, with each call treated separately, and the Department of State’s supervision rules put the responsibility on the broker for calling conducted under the brokerage’s name. Purchased lists shift the burden the wrong direction, because a broker facing a consent complaint has to prove consent existed. The New York State Association of REALTORS\u00ae keeps a running advisory on which declarations are live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does New York City’s new second-home surcharge change what a pied-\u00e0-terre is worth?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It very likely does, and by more than most owners expect. The surcharge enacted in May 2026 applies to New York City residential property that does not serve as the owner’s primary residence, took effect July 1, 2026, reaches back to obligations from January 1, 2026, and is written to sunset June 30, 2031. A recurring annual carrying cost comes out of a sale price rather than being added to it, because buyers price on what a property costs to hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The size depends entirely on whether buyers believe the sunset. On a $6 million townhouse paying 0.8%, five years of surcharge discounted at 5% is worth roughly $208,000. The same charge priced as permanent capitalizes closer to $960,000. Those are illustrative figures on stated assumptions, and none of this is tax advice, but the spread is the conversation an owner needs to have with somebody before they decide to hold or sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One caution for anyone quoting rates: the 4% to 6.5% brackets that apply to co-ops and larger condos are calculated against the Department of Finance’s comparable-rental valuation, which runs well below sales price. Apply those percentages to a unit’s market sale price and you badly overstate the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do homes in Monroe County and the Rochester area sell so far above asking price compared with the rest of New York?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Supply is the whole answer. Monroe County ran 0.5 months of inventory in 2025, the tightest in the state, and sellers there received 115.1% of original list price against a statewide figure of 101.6%. Neighboring Wayne County reached 110.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two things get conflated here and they should be kept apart. Months of supply counts homes sitting on the market at a moment, while closed sales count completed transactions over a period. Monroe closed 7,020 sales in 2025, up 1.9%. Tight supply and healthy transaction volume are describing the same competitive market from two directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the Micron project in Clay going to change how many listings Onondaga County agents see?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The demand side is on a published schedule, and the timing favors teams that establish themselves early. State projections tied to the $100 billion campus put an additional $3.3 billion of annual disposable income into Central New York by 2035, rising toward an average of $5.4 billion a year through 2055, alongside 9,000 direct jobs and more than 50,000 new permanent regional jobs over thirty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onondaga’s median sale price already rose 48.5% between 2021 and 2025, the largest four-year gain among the state’s large counties, and the county was running 1.2 months of supply. Construction is responding: the county issued more than 1,700 housing permits in 2025, over 1,300 of them multifamily, more than twice its ten-year average, according to County Executive Ryan McMahon’s March 2026 State of the County address. An agent who is the recognized name in Onondaga, Madison, Oswego, or Cayuga County before 2030 is positioned for a demand curve that has dates attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are people still leaving New York, and does that mean fewer listings for agents upstate?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

New Yorkers are still leaving on net, and fewer are leaving than before the pandemic. Net domestic migration was negative 130,436 in the 2024 American Community Survey, against negative 203,567 in 2018. Across the state’s ten largest migration-partner states, 700,172 people moved in or out that year, roughly seven arriving for every ten departing. The state’s population bottomed at 19,713,025 in 2022 and stood at 20,002,427 on July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For an upstate team the practical read runs the other way from the headline. A departing owner still owns a house in your county, and that house is a listing plus a referral if you learn about the move before the listing agreement gets signed somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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