let's bring in scott durkin. ot of people and who could remember that newspaper headline that implied that new york city was dead it seems all has been forgiven in the real estate market in the course of 18 months. >> that's a wonderful way of putting it it's come back with a roar not only sales, but rentals as well you can't find a rental with concessions anymore. the sales market has sky rocketed with people returning to the city and preparing for the best fall we've ever seen in the history of the company >> scott, what's behind it what exactly is driving people back to buy manhattan real estate when they were shunning it a year plus ago what is having them sign the rental agreements? they didn't want to be here. they wanted to be in florida or suburbs or north carolina. >> it was seetemporary. it was 18 to 20 months long. friday the 13th, we left and we left with food on our desks and we never came back we are shutdown in manhattan so we could not show property there was a lot of catch up. now people are able