Brick Underground

Your building owner is required to keep the indoor temperature during the day at 68 degrees when it falls below 55 degrees outside. This is called "heat season," and it runs from October 1st through May next year. Your building owner also faces inspections and fines if they don't keep indoor temperatures above 62 degrees overnight.

New Yorkers will see letter grades on the front of all residential and commercial buildings over 25,000 square feet that indicate well building owners are addressing energy efficiency.

How Bolster stepped in to help a couple finish renovating their Flatiron apartment after their original designers went out of business.

810 Fulton, a modern affordable building at the junction of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, offers 37 studios, one and two-bedroom apartments to middle-income New Yorkers.

The market’s late June opening and the amount of listings available—double what you normally see for August—is contributing to what a new weekly snapshot from UrbanDigs calls a “buyer’s market on steroids.” That’s one of the findings from a pair of new market reports that pinpoints the NYC real estate market’s recovery so far.

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.