Emily Myers

This one-bedroom apartment, 414 East 52nd Street, 6G, is in The Southgate complex in Manhattan's Beekman neighborhood. The area consists of a few blocks within East Midtown that sit south of Sutton Place. Originally designed by the architect Emery Roth, the prewar brick building is in the middle of a dead-end block by the East River. The asking price for this unit is $675,000 which is also the current median sales price for the area. 

Don't take money out for your retirement plan and other words of wisdom from financial planners who've seen people trying to scrape together the funds for a down payment in NYC.

There's a new financing option available to New Yorkers wanting to buy an apartment. Unison, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the largest firm offering this kind of funding and has recently helped buyers in Brooklyn and Harlem get on the property ladder.

Local opposition has put the breaks on a NYCHA plan to lease an East Williamsburg site to private developers for market-rate housing and a homeless shelter on the Upper West Side has been given the go-ahead by a judge who threw out a lawsuit fighting it.

It is possible to find a three-bedroom condo under $2 million in New York City but rare to find one that's 2,215 square feet, has three and a half bathrooms, plus a deeded parking space and is still under the $2 million mark—which makes this condo, 120 North 7th St., #1E all the more interesting. The median sales price for a three-bedroom unit in Williamsburg is $2,395,000 and this apartment is well below that at $1,850,000. 

This three bedroom, 61 Eastern Parkway #4D, in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights is on the market for $1,495,000, which is below the median sales price of $1,860,000 for similar-sized units in the area. The apartment is newly renovated and the virtually staged photos show off its practical layout, high ceilings, and hardwood floors.