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The Department of Buildings requires all AC units to be properly installed and supported, and your lease likely has similar guidelines.

Renting in this city is more complicated than in other cities—and NYC is still under shutdown orders, which makes finding an apartment even more complicated than usual—but it's not impossible. 

According to the latest weekly Manhattan sales market report from UrbanDigs, during the fourth week of May, 166 new listings were added to the market. This is the fifth weekly increase in new listings and represents a 13 percent increase compared to the prior week.

Check out this interview with Teri Rogers, founder and CEO of Brick Underground. She was featured on The Real Deal’s “The Interview,” a series of conversations with real estate leaders and newsmakers hosted by Hiten Samtani, associate publisher.

Real estate is part of the Phase 2 reopening for NYC. The threshold for entering Phase 2, according to CDC guidelines, includes “a downward trajectory (or near-zero incidence) of documented cases for at least 14 days after entering Phase 1,” among other metrics.

The shift to the suburbs was already underway before Covid struck. That’s the conclusion of new report from UrbanDigs, a Manhattan real estate analytics platform, which compared the ratio of new sales listings to signed contracts in order to measure demand in Manhattan and its surrounding suburbs.