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According to a report from The Real Deal via the Wall Street Journal, mortgage brokers are seeing rates vary by a couple of percentage points, unlike the typical 10th of a percentage point. One mortgage broker told the WSJ that he saw a 3.25 percent rate and a 5 percent rate.

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Welcome to our bi-annual Best of Brick week. Over the next five days, while our staff is on vacation, we’ll be posting our most popular and instructive stories of 2020, including multiple articles that will help you get your head around NYC real estate in the Covid era.

Part three of a first-time buyer's story of finding a studio in Chelsea and partnering with Bolster to renovate it.

Rent-to-own contracts can be negotiated on any type of property—condos, co-ops, or townhouses—and typically give you the option to buy the apartment at a certain price at the end of a two- or three-year lease. In the current climate, you may be able to lock in a price to your advantage. 

New York City's new Landlord-Tenant Mediation Project will focus on neighborhoods hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic.