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:
The average rent for a Manhattan apartment keeps climbing above $5,000. What happens when demand falls?
August 11, 2022 - 09:30 AM
The average rent for a Manhattan apartment hit $5,113 last month—another record in a string of record months for NYC rents, according to the July Elliman Report for the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens rental markets.
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Want that rent-stabilized apartment? You may need to win a broker fee bidding war
August 9, 2022 - 16:15 PM
Some renters say they are getting blindsided by escalating broker fees for rent-stabilized apartments. In other cases, apartment hunters are offering higher broker fees to get past the broker “gatekeepers.”
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Criminal background check ban, squatters in Bayside, & more
August 9, 2022 - 10:30 AM
New York City is likely to join other cities in banning landlords from screening prospective tenants based on their criminal records
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Bidding wars for broker fees, TikToker blasts Montauk 'scam,' & more
August 8, 2022 - 10:30 AM
Not only are bidding wars for rentals a thing now, apparently so are bidding wars for broker fees
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Manhattan sellers unbothered, mortgage rates drop below 5 percent, & more
August 5, 2022 - 10:30 AM
New listings dropped 17 percent in Manhattan last month in part because "sellers are not panicking."
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Moving companies duke it out, fear of crime, & more
August 1, 2022 - 10:30 AM
A NYCHA resident organizes her neighbors to fight for working elevators, heat and hot water, and pest-free apartments in a story by The New York Times.
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