Lucy Cohen Blatter

The owners of this 640-square-foot one-bedroom Park Slope condo are renting it out for $2,600 a month. They are willing to offer a one or two-year lease, as well as a lease renewal after two years.

This has been one crazy decade for real estate -- there's been a "boom," a "bust," and several plateaus too.

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This $3,200 a month three-bedroom apartment is located inside a three-family brownstone at 163 W. 129th Street in Central Harlem.

Built from the ground up in 2002, the space has approximately 2,400 square feet, and a backyard, too. The kitchen, while spacious, has standard, non-luxury appliances. Rent includes heat and hot water. 

Many if not most NYC renters wind up paying a broker fee ranging from one month's rent to 15% of a year's rent when signing a lease on a new apartment. Find your next apartment through RentJolt, an online apartment marketplace that launched its beta version last weekend, and you'll pay 5.75% of a year's rent.