Leah Hochbaum Rosner

In a city where 70 percent of residents rent, disputes between landlords and tenants arise with predictable regularity. Is rent owed? Can your subletter be evicted? Does the tenant-on-record’s ex have a right to stay on in a once-shared rent-regulated apartment following a breakup?

Imagining how you’d set up your furniture in a new apartment is more fun than imagining how you’re going to scrape together the money for a broker’s commission, traditionally 12-15% of the annual rent. Fortunately, you can narrow the gap between fantasy and homelessness by narrowing your search to no-fee or low-fee--the latter carrying a broker's fee of no more than 9% of a year's rent. Browse through the low-to-no-fee listings here or conduct your own search by clicking the “low-fee” search box on apartment-search site Naked Apartments.

It's no secret that no-fee apartments in NYC can be harder to get your hands on than a cronut. That's why a low-fee place--like those available by clicking the “low-fee” search box at rental website Naked Apartments—may be the next best thing. In this edition of the Low-Fee Rental Roundup--apartments with a broker's fee of zero to 9% of the annual rent instead of the usual 12-15%—we found a low-fee 4-bedroom on the Upper West Side with a chef’s kitchen and fireplace, a no-fee 3-bedroom in a Roosevelt Island doorman building, and more.

Just a few short months ago, insect experts were predicting a summer cicada invasion that would leave New York City looking like Egypt during the Biblical plague of locusts. So did they ever come? We posed this and other burning bug questions to entomologist Gil Bloom, president of Standard Pest Management—a member of BrickUnderground’s Real.Est List resource directory and the focus of this week’s Real.Est List Spotlight series—to get the latest on the city’s copious creepy-crawlies.

Looking for a new place to call home, but can’t fathom how you’re going to swing the rent and the broker’s fee—which can be as much as 12-15% of the annual rent? You’re not alone. So why not try to find a no-fee or low-fee (meaning a 9% or less commission) apartment like the ones you can find by clicking the "low-fee" box on rental search site Naked Apartments? In this week’s Low-Fee Rental Round-Up, we found a low-fee 2-bedroom in Chelsea with in-unit laundry and a 9% broker's fee, a no-fee one-bedroom in Williamsburg, and many more. Want to look at one of these places post-haste? Choose a time that works well for you and Naked Apartments will send a broker over to meet you there via the site's new Showings on Demand feature.

With rents in New York City as high as they are, it’s nice to know you can still get a bit of a break sometimes with a no-fee or low-fee place (zero to 9% of the annual rent instead of the usual 12-15% commission) like the ones on offer via Naked Apartments' "low-fee" search option. This edition of the Low-Fee Rental Roundup includes a low-fee duplex on the Upper East Side, a no-fee 1-bedroom in Long Island City and more. Still haven’t found what you’re looking for? Visit Naked Apartments and check off the low-fee search box. Want to tour one of these places today? Pick a time and Naked Apartments will find a broker to meet you there pronto with its new Showings on Demand feature.