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Manhattan Rents Broke Another Record

 Average rents reached more than $5000 in July. By Clio Chang
  1. ‘They’re Destroying an Artists’ Block’: Locals on the Vornado Penn Station Plan A furrier, a circus school, and other shops on the big changes coming to their block.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. The Ranch Thinks New Yorkers Can’t Handle the Ranch The luxury Malibu boot camp is coming to the Hudson Valley with shorter hikes and later wake-up times.
    By Clio Chang
  3. The Times’ ‘Hunt’ Columnist Is Being Sued for Back Rent But it looks like Joyce Cohen is just trying to finish out her sublet term.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. Dystopian Housing Issue? There’s an App for That. It’s become so impossible to get an apartment that apps have emerged to make it easier — for a fee, of course.
    By Bridget Read
  5. A Fake Developer Scammed 20 Brooklyn Families Out of $4 Million After trusting a familiar face in the Chinese community, they are suing him to stave off eviction.
    By Clio Chang
  6. Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent Control The move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.
    By Clio Chang
  7. The San Jose Realtor Whose Clients Would Rather Be in Palo Alto “Even my most wealthy and successful clients can’t touch that market.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  8. Bishop Lamor Whitehead Owns a Lot of Real Estate. Or Does He? The Brooklyn pastor, who said he was robbed of $1 million mid-sermon last Sunday, is reportedly in default on a $4.5 million house.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. New York Moving Companies Go to War Over Tech Secrets The long-running grudge match between Piece of Cake and Dumbo Moving and Storage.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. 4 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of Four The search, at long last, concludes.
    By Emily Gould
  11. There Is Now a Raya for Home-Swapping DTC furniture and well-maintained Monsteras only.
    By Clio Chang
  12. When a New High-Rise Means Less Housing A new tower is four times the height of its predecessor, yet it has fewer apartments.
    By Kim Velsey
  13. Let’s Take a Closer Look at Armie Hammer’s Time-shares, Shall We? The décor casts a threatening aura.
    By Rebecca Alter
  14. What Happens to the Listings Project When There Are No Good Listings? Stephanie Diamond’s ethical apartment site runs up against a “disgusting” market.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. The Average Rent in Manhattan Is Now $5,000 Congratulations!
    By Katie McDonough
  16. The Montana Broker Whose Listings Suddenly Won’t Sell “This time last year, we had people sending personal assistants to come look at homes for them and then offering all cash. Now, crickets.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  17. The McKibbin Lofts Super Asked for a Raise But Was Evicted Instead Jose Diaz has worked and lived in the building for 12 years.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  18. The Woo-woo Agents of Real Estate Can unblocking your chakras get you a house? Maybe!
    By Bridget Read
  19. Compass Comes Back to Earth As it lays off 450 employees and its stock price tanks, the great disruptor turns out to be a brokerage after all.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. The Building That Brought Down Anna Delvey Is Back on the Market Maybe she’ll raise the money to buy 281 Park Avenue South for real this time?
    By Kim Velsey
  21. What’s More American Than Living in a Missile Silo? No on-site laundry, though.
    By Clio Chang
  22. The Great Boy Scouts Land Sell-Off Developers and conservationists are battling over the organization’s fantastically valuable property.
    By Molly Osberg
  23. 32 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of Four Too exhausted to go on, Emily hands the hunt over to her husband, Keith.
    By Emily Gould
  24. The Small, Litigious New York Real-Estate Dynasty You’ve Never Heard Of Suing your own mother for being a “slumlord” is just the tip of the iceberg.
    By Bridget Read
  25. The West Village Co-op With a Surprise in the Closet The surprise is a shower.
    By Clio Chang
  26. In a Soho Loft, Tech Bros Plot an Autonomous City Praxis, a “grassroots movement of modern pioneers,” lures members with grocery-store crudités and vague conversation.
    By Nevin Kallepalli
  27. Inside Olympic Tower, Where Foreign Billionaires Have Long Flocked The midtown high-rise is ideal for those who’d rather not do much of anything themselves.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  28. The Year REBNY Tried to Get Cool And the real power players left early.
    By Kim Velsey and Clio Chang
  29. Meet Eric Adams’s Other Brooklyn Apartment An unofficial tour of the Prospect Heights co-op he forgot he still owned.
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Austin Broker With a Robust Country-Club Client Base “A colleague sends me some stats from the Census Bureau saying that Austin’s population is increasing by 146 people every day. Wowza!”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  31. Julia Haart’s $65 Million Penthouse Is Politically Neutral Also it’s technically not her apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  32. Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More Expensive The Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
    By Clio Chang
  33. Billionaires Think a Recession Will Force You Back Into the Office Stephen Ross and friends smell worker desperation in the water.
    By Clio Chang
  34. What Landlords Privately Think About the Real-Estate Boom “Why shouldn’t I charge what I can charge? Doesn’t that sound nasty, though?”
    By Kim Velsey
  35. For Rent: Two-Bedroom, Great Light, and a Tenant With COVID Who is about to show you the apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  36. The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud Hybrid work is supposed to be the future of the office. Except a lot of people just don’t like it.
    By Kim Velsey
  37. Checking In With the Real-Estate Brokers Who Stormed the Capitol And their current listings, from Chicago’s Trump Tower to a Colorado car wash franchise.
    By Bridget Read
  38. Why Do the Men of SNL Live in Such Horrifying Apartments? Live from New York … wow, this is kind of a dump, huh?
    By Rebecca Alter
  39. What Is Going On With This Architect and the Buildings He Fake-Approved? The strange case of Warren L. Schiffman and the Marx Development Group.
    By Clio Chang
  40. The Hamptons Broker Whose Clients Think $60,000 a Month is a Great Deal “My colleague has this funny line that I thought was fitting here: ‘This is the Hamptons, honey. We can disappoint you at any price point.’”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  41. 49 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment For a Family of Four “Even if you could imagine this unit being clean, it still would have a general ambiance I can only describe as serial-killer-y.”
    By Emily Gould
  42. Kelly Killoren Bensimon Assesses Jeffrey Epstein’s Island “Oh my gosh, the real Scary Island.”
    By Clio Chang
  43. The Williamsburg Hotel’s Drawn-Out, Chaotic Bankruptcy Process “I do have some concern that he’ll do something really stupid here.”
    By Clio Chang
  44. The 11-Bedroom Mansion Your Silent Workday Bought Slack founder finds a happy, $32 million home in Southampton.
    By Clio Chang
  45. A Long, Strange Year of Rent Relief It was a tedious, administrative nightmare. It also (mostly) worked.
    By Clio Chang
  46. The Landlords Embarrassed to Be Called Landlords “I cringe when I hear it, and when I say it.”
    By Bridget Read
  47. WeWork Thinks It’s a Good Time to Be WeWork The company sees itself thriving as return-to-office plans flop.
    By Clio Chang
  48. 60 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of Four The first installment of Emily Gould’s search for a two-bedroom.
    By Emily Gould
  49. An Anti-Airbnb Activist Rented Her House on Airbnb And the city collectively lost its mind.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Cuck Money Is the New Key Money Get ready to raise your own rent.
    By Bridget Read
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