Market Insight
In November 2025, Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Department of Buildings Commissioner Jimmy Oddo revealed six revamped designs for sidewalk sheds to be used at construction projects in the five boroughs. They hired architecture firms Arup and Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) to reimagine ho...
Manhattan’s for-sale inventory sits at 5,946 active listings, essentially flat year over year (-1%), with a $2.25 million median condo ask, down 6% from last December; and an $895K median co-op ask, down 3% annually. The stability comes as the high-end market for new contracts for homes over $4 ...
Leasing is underway at 18W55, a new uber-luxury rental building located at 18 West 55th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. Availabilities start at $5,145/month for studios, $6,425/month for one-bedrooms, $12,995/month for two-bedrooms, and $15,250/month for three-bedrooms.
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In the third quarter of 2025, Manhattan recorded just over 2,500 signed residential contracts: 47% for condominiums, 48% for cooperatives, and the remainder for condops and townhouses. If all sold at their last asking price, total contract volume would reach approximately $5.2 billion. The overal...
In New York City's high-end condo market, amenities have become a form of quiet one-upmanship. Developers not only compete on architecture, apartment finishes and fittings, but on how they can anticipate a resident’s daily rituals, social life, and desire for privacy inside and outside their home...
Buying in a new residential condo or co-op development in NYC comes with excitement, and, of course, a lot of paperwork. In this Q&A, Samantha Sheeber, managing partner at Starr Associates LLP, explains the reason for offering plans and why these documents play such a big role in shaping expectat...
Every December, building staff across the city leave seasonal cards under residents’ doors. If you’re new to life in a full-service building, don’t be fooled—this card is not simply a chance for staff to extend holiday cheer to you and your family. These cards, which usually arrive in the first w...
From November 25 - December 1, 2025, fewer than 150 condos, co-ops, condops, and townhouses in core New York City areas experienced price reductions. This comes at a time when the total number of sales listings on CityRealty has dropped to around 7,800 public availabilities, as compared to over 9...
Housing is one of the most closely watched issues in New York City, and that was made clear on Election Day 2025. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's campaign emphasized affordability, and his housing platform calls for freezing rents on rent-stabilized units and building 200,000 units of affordable hou...
Belgian block streets can still be found throughout many historic neighborhoods in New York City. In some areas, they form the entire street surface, while in others, they may be partially exposed due to the wear and tear of asphalt pavement, revealing the historical roadbed underneath. These cob...
While many of November 2025's highest-priced sales have been dominated by Billionaires' Row condos, the top sales recorded on the week ending November 29, 2025 showed an almost even divide between exciting new West Chelsea buildings and Upper East Side elegance. The number of sales recorded climb...
As the week of November 24-30, 2025 included the Thanksgiving holiday, a week-over-week dip in the number of Manhattan residential real estate contracts signed, as well as the aggregate dollar amount, was not entirely unexpected. However, November 2025 was ultimately the quietest November for co...
The meeting between President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday, November 21, 2025, sent a strong signal to the New York City real estate market.
The headline takeaway is an unlikely "populist alignment" on affordability. Instead of the anticipated clash between a Republican P...
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