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:
Tale of two Manhattan markets: Rents for doorman apartments surge 18 percent, non-doorman units see small rise
November 11, 2021 - 09:30 AM
The high end of the Manhattan rental market is behaving very differently from the low end, according to the Elliman Report for the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens rental markets for October 2021. Doorman rentals saw a much greater increase in rents than non-doorman rentals.
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What you need to know about financing a pied-à-terre in NYC
November 8, 2021 - 16:30 PM
Compared to a mortgage for a primary residence, you can expect to pay a slightly higher rate for a secondary residence (usually less than half a percent higher than your primary home rate.)
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Compromise on the SALT cap, return of international buyers, & more
November 8, 2021 - 10:30 AM
A deal included in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan would raise to $80,000 the annual amount of state and local taxes that taxpayers can deduct according to the New York Daily News.
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Hunters Point construction boom, apartment hunting as a future pet parent, & more
November 5, 2021 - 10:30 AM
Hunters Point ranks third on a list of U.S. neighborhoods with the most newly built rental units in the past five years, according to a new survey from RentCafe.
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9 of the 10 top sellers’ markets are in Brooklyn, StreetEasy says
November 4, 2021 - 15:30 PM
According to a new report from StreetEasy on the 10 top sellers’ markets in NYC, in some Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, and the Rockaways in Queens, the median-sale-to-list-price ratio was 100 percent in the past six months. It's likely that many of these transactions involved bidding wars.
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New report says more inspections, deeper reserve funds can help buildings prevent tragedy
November 4, 2021 - 14:30 PM
A new report from the Community Associations Institute (CAI) recommends stricter rules on building inspections and prescribed levels of reserve funding to prevent a tragedy like the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo from recurring.
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