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It’s recovery time. In Manhattan, new lease signings rose to their highest level for the month of January, since the last financial crisis: up 57.6%year over year.
Lowered rents prompted an increase in the new lease contracts activity. Tenants are moving back to the city in search of good deals as they sense the leverage in their ...
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Sensationalism helps sell news, garner headlines and win clicks. And sensationalism has reached real estate these days. Yes, we have an evolving real estate market as we went through the lockdown and emerged from it; so it is easy for some news outlets to publish partial information to make it look like the end of the world is looming.
Bloomberg reported that a quarter of the city’s apartment renters haven’t paid since March, according to the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP). ...
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It’s already been a year since Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly called off the dreaded 15-month L train shutdown, replacing it with a “slowdown,” to repair the Canarsie Tunnel.
Back in December 2018, median asking rents in the neighborhood fell to $2,899/month, according to StreetEasy. Then, in early January 2019, when Gov. Cuomo announced that the complete shutdown of the L train ...
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