Quite simply, it is very difficult to find the ideal apartment without a real estate agent / broker. The Manhattan market is large and complex and moves very quickly; trying to navigate it on your own is a formidable challenge. Brokers live and breath the market - most people rent an apartment every few years, while brokers are renting every day. Thus, the experience and knowledge they bring is invaluable and impossible to get elsewhere. As useful as we like to think the content in our website is, it is meant to be used in conjunction with the expertise of an experienced real estate broker. In addition, in New York, many of the best apartments are rented exclusively through brokers. This means that in order to rent such apartments, you must use a broker. As we work with the largest rental agency in the city, you are sure to have access to the largest possible number of listings.