Inside Stories

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Negotiating + Financing

How I cut my monthly mortgage payment in half so I could keep my Staten Island home

By Celia Young |March 4, 2024 - 9:30AM

Affordable Housing

How I won a $444 UWS studio in NYC's affordable housing lottery

By Lcee |December 19, 2023 - 12:30PM

Barbara Fleischman with Chef Jim at Sunrise at 56th

The Market

At age 99, I moved to a luxury senior living facility. Here’s what it’s like

By Marjorie Cohen |November 28, 2023 - 9:30AM

Buy

The outrageously priced Brooklyn condo that I thank god we didn't end up buying

… With all of its activity and people New York City is a place of chance encounters and … city stocked with the ones that got away and roads not takenfor better or for worse And that includes spaces to live both rentals and sales to which you just couldnt commit whatever the reason …

By Mimi OConnor |November 1, 2023 - 3:30PM

Roommates + Landlords

My NYC rental felt unsafe, but a squatter using the basement as a bathroom was the last straw

By Celia Young |August 7, 2023 - 1:30PM

Live

I live in a five-floor NYC townhouse with a private elevator

By Mimi OConnor |June 27, 2023 - 12:30PM

Live

Nightmare in Park Slope: My ‘luxury’ basement apartment flooded three times in two months

By Anonymous |March 30, 2023 - 12:30PM

Sales Market

How the 'real estate whisperer' won a 30-way bidding war and landed his dream house

… Years ago my husband and I won a sevenway bidding war for a Brooklyn condo When I got the news from our broker … come away from winning an unusually large 30way bidding war at the height of the market last summer feeling elated … most quoted experts on housing markets and Business Insider called him the most honest man in real estate in a recent …

By Jennifer White Karp |January 18, 2023 - 9:30AM