Jennifer White Karp
Managing Editor
Jennifer steers Brick Underground’s editorial coverage of New York City residential real estate and writes articles on market trends and strategies for buyers, sellers, and renters. Jennifer’s 15-year career in New York City real estate journalism includes stints as a writer and editor at The Real Deal and its spinoff publication, Luxury Listings NYC. A longtime Brooklynite who has sworn off basement apartments, she graduated from Wesleyan University and has an MFA in nonfiction writing from the New School.
Posts by Jennifer White Karp:
StreetEasy launches tool for NYC owners to track their property values
October 15, 2020 - 13:30 PM
StreetEasy, which functions as the de facto multiple listing site for renters and buyers in New York City, yesterday added a new tool for owners and sellers. It’s called the StreetEasy Valuation, and it provides an AI-powered estimate of an apartment's or house’s value, along with an estimated price per square foot and monthly rent.
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Pandemic silver linings: How NYC real estate has changed for the better
October 13, 2020 - 12:30 PM
While it is a very tough time for apartment sellers and owners, there have been a host of unanticipated ways in which the real estate market has changed for the better, shifting from transactions dependent on paper documents and in-person meetings into the modern era, with Zoom co-op board interviews, electronic document signings, and video apartment tours as the standard.
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Eviction cases may restart, home improvement escapism, & more
October 12, 2020 - 10:30 AM
TV execs bet what homebound Americans need now are shows about how to make the places we can’t escape look prettier.
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The slowing flight to the burbs, a very large private garden, & more
October 9, 2020 - 10:30 AM
One Manhattan Square on the Lower East Side unveiled the city’s largest private garden, with more than an acre of landscaping and recreation areas.
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Brooklyn's median price holds steady, despite sharp fall in the number of sales
October 8, 2020 - 11:30 AM
In the third quarter of this year—when the number of sales fell 43 percent compared to the third quarter of 2019, Brooklyn’s median sales price was $790,000—the same as a year ago, according to the Elliman Report for the third quarter for Brooklyn, Queens, and Riverdale. The number of sales, however, fell at the largest year-over-year rate in more than 11 years, according to the report.
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Lease signings picked up in September—as landlords dropped rents and offered more freebies
October 8, 2020 - 09:30 AM
There were 5,018 new leases signed in September, compared to 5,019 in September—essentially a zero percent change, according to The Elliman Report for Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens rentals. That contrasts with a decline of 23.7 percent for August and a drop of 23.4 percent in July.
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