Brick Underground

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.

The number of Manhattan sales contracts signed for the third week of July more than doubled from the previous week, from 68 to 155. It’s encouraging news, the latest weekly Manhattan sales market report from UrbanDigs notes

A new rental report from RentHop found demand plunged for rentals in pricey Manhattan neighborhoods in the second quarter, but only dipped slightly in Brooklyn and Queens.