Brick Underground

Tribeca, which is historically one of the most expensive in the city, for the first time in at least five years did not make it onto the top tier of PropertyShark’s annual list of 100 priciest zip codes in the U.S.

Bolster, a New York City-based renovation company that offers a suite of project delivery methods to meet homeowners’ needs, including Agile, Build Only, and Design-Build.

The latest weekly report from UrbanDigs notes that Brooklyn sales appear to be slowing and there was a dip in contracts signed compared to previous weeks. The new report, which covers the second week of November (6th-12th), shows that Brooklyn properties are now spending nearly twice as long on the market as they were during June (a median of 79 days).

The number of new signed contracts in October for Manhattan co-ops (510) came close to the same level seen in October 2019 (531), according to the Elliman Report, which looks at new signed contracts and new listings for Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island, Hamptons, North Fork, Westchester County, Fairfield County, and Greenwich, CT.

A new Brown Harris Stevens Development Marketing report found that 17 percent of 301 rental buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens were offering three months free and an owner-paid broker fee.

The law protects your right to participate in a tenant organization without retaliation. Under the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, passed in 2019, if a landlord attempts to evict you within a year of you forming a tenant association, it’s presumed retaliatory, and the landlord must provide a credible explanation otherwise.