Must Reads

  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 1/10/12 - 10:07 AM
    A recent New York Times story characterizing 2011 as the year of the board turndown held out a sliver of anecdotal hope for rejected buyers: A broker tells the Times that she persuaded an...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 11/01/11 - 7:15 AM
    BrickUnderground is extremely pleased to announce the relaunch and expansion of our Agent Referral Service, designed to take the Russian Roulette out of finding a good New York City real estate...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 9/13/11 - 7:19 AM
    The rent for my 225-square foot, one-bedroom apartment in a Murray Hill non-doorman building is $1,525 a month. When I travel, I offset my costs by renting out my apartment by the night (three-night...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 6/27/11 - 2:58 PM
    The heat is definitely on when it comes to renting a NYC apartment in the hottest market in five years.  We recently shared a few tips with NY1 real estate reporter Jill Urban (above)...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 6/21/11 - 8:01 AM
    It was a dream come true:  Six-hundred square feet of outdoor space accessible from both levels of a duplex, garden apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan...250 square feet of tiled patio...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 6/06/11 - 8:15 AM
    BrickUnderground officially kicks off our Renter Referral Program today, a new referral service designed to take the Russian Roulette out of finding a good Manhattan rental agent.The...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 5/24/11 - 2:02 PM
    Q.  I recently bought a co-op apartment half a block from a fire station. Between the sirens and the garbage trucks hauling trash in the middle of the night from the restaurant across the...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 3/14/11 - 7:58 AM
    Good news: New Yorkers have apparently become as Type A over bed bug prevention as they are about preschool admissions."New Yorkers are ahead of the curve on their bed bug education because they have...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 3/08/11 - 7:02 AM
    As part of BrickUnderground’s ongoing effort to demystify the NYC rental experience (see our Renter's Survival Kit), we're turning our attention to security deposits.  You may already...
  • by Teri Karush Rogers | 2/08/11 - 7:20 AM
    Renting is supposed to be a carefree existence:  When your apartment malfunctions—be it a stuck window, your incessantly running toilet or a section of the ceiling that collapses onto your...