The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit the 6 percent range after historic lows during the pandemic (The Real Deal)
New York City's $101 billion budget includes $2.4 billion for homeless services in the next fiscal year (City Limits)
An apartment hunter's TikTok of a $12,000-a-month, two-bedroom rental in the East Village goes viral (New York Post)
An 1870 three-bedroom carriage house asking $5.5 million tops Brooklyn's luxury market (The Real Deal)
Furniture flipping is the latest response to supply chain issues (The New York Times)
A North Carolina-based exterminator will pay you $2,000 to unleash 100 cockroaches in your house (The Cut)
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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