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Miami leads in returning to the office

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Miami is emerging as a frontrunner among major cities in the process of returning to in-person office work, as indicated by a recent report from Placer.ai.

In February, Miami and New York City demonstrated notable trends in the post-COVID return-to-office landscape. In Miami, in-person office visits were down by 9.4% compared to February 2020, while New York City experienced a slightly larger decline of 14.5%.

In New York and Miami, offices drew just 22.5% and 21.9% fewer visits, respectively, in ...

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Manhattan office leasing has busiest month of Covid era

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Companies still want a piece of Manhattan. Some 3.4 million square feet of office space was leased in August, the most since January 2020, when the first Covid cases began to pop up in New York City.

Notably, space in Midtown is steadily getting harder to findMore space was newly leased than became available in Manhattan’s central business district decreased for the sixth straight month, as was the case for Manhattan as a whole.

However, Midtown’s available office space has increased by 36 percent since March 2020. Modest compared to Midtown South (where it has more than doubled), Downtown (up ...

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NYC: more buyers than new listings, but ‘shortages’ are not imminent

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In 2021, new signed contracts for Manhattan and Brooklyn co-ops, condos, and townhouses outperformed last year, with new listings struggling to keep pace with demand.

As a result bidding wars are increasing, the Covid discount is shrinking, and prices are on the rise in NYC.

In November, for example, new signed contracts for Manhattan co-ops under $500,000 increased by 52.7 percent over November 2020, while new listings for the same price category fell by 15.3 percent, according to the latest edition of the Miller Samuel Report. Manhattan condos priced $500,000 to $999,000 saw new signed contracts increase ...

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Manhattan Real Estate Sales Market Update | 2nd Quarter 2021

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The Manhattan real estate market is experiencing a period of significant recovery. Although the inventory is still substantial, sales activity has exploded and the “covid discount” effect is already disappearing. It should be remembered that these data are somehow still influenced by the pandemic as they reflect the difference between this quarter and the same period last year.

Talking by Numbers. ...

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NYC Schools Will Go All In-Person, No Remote Next Year

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New York City’s public school students will all return to classrooms in the 2021-2022 year, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

“It’s good news: New York City public schools, one million kids will be back in their classroom in September, all in-person, no remote,” he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

The announcement represents a significant upcoming return to normal for the city’s schools, which have been at least partially remote since the coronavirus pandemic first struck in March 2020.

(source: patch.com)

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Powerful new rush of buyers sends housing prices soaring

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So far in 2021, residential real estate experts are reporting a powerful new wave of buyers, increasing the demand on an already low housing inventory throughout Miami-Dade County.

The powerful new wave of domestic buyers, purchasing more expensive primary residences and second homes with longer stays, is a also direct result of the pandemic catapulting the remote working trend, tax reform creating tax refugees, Florida’s no state income tax, and the influx of technology and finance companies; not to mention the quality of ...

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