The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
It seems almost like a spoof, considering that “lack of space” is the most common topic for grumbling about NYC rental apartments, but according to a just-released study by the non-profit Citizens Housing and Planning Council, the problem is real: there’s a severe shortage of rental apartments in New York City for people who can [...]
From the confirming what you already know department: Manhattan and Brooklyn rental apartments are pricey, scarce. Every month I say the same thing, because every month the only thing to say is the same thing: Manhattan rental apartments, and Brooklyn rental apartments, continue to go up in price, landlords continue to enjoy low vacancy rates, [...]
Fewer New Yorkers are living by themselves now than in more than a decade, which means more of an emphasis on finding the best roommate for your situation. One recent report put the number of households in this town functioning as a “single” at 46.3%, which is still high as compared to rest of the [...]
I’m feeling a bit like a broken record on this front, but here’s the latest story on Manhattan rental apartments: rents are high, vacancies low, concessions few and far between. And while it sometimes seems like that’s ALWAYS been the case (or, at least, for the nearly 30 years that I’ve been renting apartments in [...]
New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy is one of the great repositories of information about the way we physically live, today in New York City.
