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What’s going on in the Manhattan rental Market? Let’s take a look at July 2020 data…
With the withdrawal of some of the restrictions due to Covid-19 emergency, new rental activity surged month over month but still well below the year-ago levels.
The Number of New Leases (excluding renewals), went down – 23.4% to 4,949, ...
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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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We studied hard to deliver a brand new report to you. The reality check on the Manhattan Luxury Market. Every week we hear of multi-million dollar properties going on the market and sometimes the asking price seems exorbitant because it is!
With this report, we are going to tell you at what prices luxury properties are actually closing and what was ...
At the beginning of the crisis we had 136 weekly contracts signed in Manhattan. That number progressively went down during the crisis to reach a low of 31 contracts signed 12 weeks into the crisis. Last week was week 13, and we had 61 contracts signed! Could be the first sign of a recovery? In a normal market we ...
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You’ve been able to find your perfect house even during the pandemic and you’re now ready to make an offer, congratulations! Here is some advice on how to prepare an offer without expecting surprises.
1. How low can you go?
Not as much as you would think.
“Banks have rolled out mortgage forbearance programs, so most sellers are not in immediate danger of losing their home, even if they just lost their job or their income has been significantly cut,” says Caleb Liu, ...
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The National Association of Realtors reports that total existing-home sales dropped, nation wide, 8.5% in March. Despite the decline, home prices are still steady. The median existing-home price in March was $280,600, UP 8.0% from the same period in 2019. Total housing inventory at the end of March was down 10.2% from one year ago.
Many sellers had withdrawn their properties from ...
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