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:
2020 NYC real estate forecast: Buyers trade up, renters lose advantage, and sellers...quit?
January 2, 2020 - 08:30 AM
Brick Underground breaks down what you need to know in order to achieve your real estate goals for 2020. Buyers, sellers, and yes, renters, now are more interdependent than ever before.
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A new 'gentrification tax,' how NYC can scavengers scrape by, & more
December 30, 2019 - 11:00 AM
New affordable housing lotteries open in Brownsville and East New York.
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New NYC rent laws require security deposits to be returned in 14 days and landlords are fuming
December 27, 2019 - 14:00 PM
While most of the rent reforms were aimed at strengthening protections for stabilized tenants, there are some measures that protect market rate tenants as well. One of these regulations, a new requirement to return a departing tenant’s security deposit within 14 days, is nearly impossible to comply with, landlords say.
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Welcome to Brick Underground’s favorite stories of 2019: Holiday week edition
December 23, 2019 - 09:00 AM
Welcome to our annual Best of Brick week: We'll be posting our most popular and instructive stories of 2019.
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New bill requires rentals for homeless, faulty pipe to blame for Queens sewage mess, & more
December 20, 2019 - 11:00 AM
And, a case for getting life insurance along with a new mortgage.
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Would you rent this six bedroom in Manhattan Valley for $6,000?
December 18, 2019 - 13:30 PM
This six-bedroom, two-bath rental, 106 West 105th St., #6, in Manhattan Valley, is asking $6,000 a month. Or is it a five bedroom? When it was listed in September, it was cheaper ($5,750) and there were one fewer bedrooms.
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