2017 real estate forecast: The Trump effect, concessions-mania, Bronx hype, the battle for the BQX, and more

… code word softening at the top of the luxury sales and rental markets while everyone in more downtoearth price … who has taken over Midtown a flood of concessions in the rental market the neverending fight for affordable housing … a boom of new development inventory There are so many different markets in Manhattan its very bifurcated says Compass …

By Virginia K. Smith |January 2, 2017 - 11:55AM
Here's how incomes—and rents—are REALLY calculated in NYC's affordable housing

… for a spot in one of the citys rare affordable 8020 rentals often when you look into a buildings income requirements and rents theres an inevitable followup question Who can really … … Whos determining the income caps … Short answer the federal government The longer answer is that the basis for …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 15, 2016 - 8:59AM