An American in Paris: How a New Yorker should handle an apartment hunt in the City of Light

… In our new column the Expat Renter we check into how leasing an apartment works in other cities and compare it to the … apartments in Paris The big apartments in Haussmanianstyle buildings of western Paris in the 16 th 18 th  and 8 th …

By Julie Strickland |March 30, 2017 - 8:59AM
Broker fees on rentals are now banned in the U.K., but New Yorkers shouldn't bank on it

… back we wrote about a petition to ban socalled letting fees the UK equivalent of the broker fees many New Yorkers pay on rentals After more than 250000 people signed off on the … crisis We need a safer fairer and more secure private rental system which works for tenants not just letting …

By Virginia K. Smith |December 8, 2016 - 1:59PM