(Photo: Hannah Whitaker/New York Magazine)

Barbara Slaska
Dentist
Lives in Chappaqua and in a Murray Hill rental, and is looking at pieds-à-terre in the area around her current apartment.

You’re bucking the tide—does that worry you at all?
If I wait ten years before I sell it, I’m sure I’ll be fine. [Friends and family] are telling me to wait until summer, to see where the economy is going, but interest rates are, historically, at their lowest. What else can we ask for? Prices may go lower but interest rates higher.

And have you found a place?
We’ve put out four offers. I’m taking my time—I’m in no rush.

But do you like what you see?
There are many good choices right now … I think after the summer, that’ll change. That’s my deadline.