Strategies for rental bidding wars, NYC sales listings increase, & more

By Austin Havens-Bowen | March 25, 2022 - 3:00PM

This week readers visited Brick Underground to read how to beat the competition in bidding wars for rental apartments. Yes, those are a thing: Bidding wars are becoming widespread in the city's competitive rental market so it's important to know a few tactics.

Also of interest: A record number of New York City sellers listed their properties in February, according to a new StreetEasy report.

Here are this week's top five posts:

1) With bidding wars for rentals increasing, here's how to stay on top of the competition

2) A record number of NYC sellers listed properties in February, a sign the market may be shifting

3) What does 'net effective rent' mean? Here's how to calculate your real monthly rent

4) Our crazy Brooklyn rental hunt: We kept losing places to others willing to pay more and sign longer leases

5) What the Federal Reserve's move means for NYC buyers and sellers

Austin Havens-Bowen

Staff Writer

Staff writer Austin Havens-Bowen covers the rental market and answers renters' questions in a column called Realty Bites. He previously reported on local news for the Queens Ledger and The Hunts Point Express in the Bronx. He graduated from Hunter College with a BA in media studies. He rents a one-bedroom apartment in Astoria with his boyfriend and their two cats.

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