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:
Manhattan sales show an increase for the first time in four quarters
April 2, 2021 - 09:30 AM
The number of first quarter closed sales in Manhattan, 2,457, was an increase of 2.1 percent over the first quarter of 2020—when the shutdown started mid-March, according to the latest edition of the Elliman Report. Co-op sales have more than doubled since the lockdown. The sales pace is a positive sign for sure.
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Newly comfortable with online tours, some buyers make offers on condos sight unseen
April 1, 2021 - 13:30 PM
A handful of buyers—especially international buyers of new condos and New Yorkers who have been sheltering elsewhere—feel the market has hit the bottom and want to act quickly. For them, video tours are standing in for the real thing and they are making offers on condos sight-unseen.
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Asian woman beaten in front of luxury doorman building
March 31, 2021 - 09:35 AM
Another example of an Asian hate crime was captured on video and is all the more shocking because it appears to show building staff not coming to a woman’s aid as she is being beaten on the sidewalk outside the front door.
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Wall Street bonuses jump, housing inspector suspended over slur, & more
March 29, 2021 - 10:30 AM
The average Wall Street bonus was up 10 percent last year, despite forecasts for a disastrous year.
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NYers bring higher rents to burbs, vacation bookings heat up, & more
March 26, 2021 - 10:30 AM
And, many struggling NYC renters are trapped under a mountain of debt and scared about what happens after the eviction moratorium expires.
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Missing your fellow NYers? A new study tracks where they went
March 25, 2021 - 12:30 PM
A new study from Placer.ai tracks where Manhattanites moved during the pandemic. They didn't go far, it seems. Most went to neighboring counties and states.
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