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• Queens Renters Find More Room to Negotiate on Larger Apartments

  Two-bedroom listings in several transit-served neighborhoods are lingering longer than they did in spring, giving qualified renters leverage on move-in dates and fees. Studios remain intensely competitive, limiting relief for people seeking the lowest monthly payment.

  Real Estate · Jordan Kim · August 24, 2026

• Lower Manhattan Conversions Move From Blueprints to Review

  A new group of aging office buildings is entering design and permit review for possible residential use. Deep floor plates, financing costs and affordable-housing requirements will determine how many plans become homes.

  Real Estate · Camille Foster · August 24, 2026

• Brooklyn's $4 Billion Greenpoint Landing Nears Completion, Remaking the Waterfront Forever

  After a decade of delays, lawsuits, and community battles, the 22-tower development is more than half built — and reshaping questions about who gets to live along the East River.

  Real Estate · Marcus Webb · August 16, 2026

• $160 Million Affordable Complex Rises in Mount Vernon as Downstate Rent Pressure Pushes North

  QWest Towers will bring 229 income-restricted apartments to a lot beside the Mount Vernon West Metro-North station, at a cost of nearly $700,000 an apartment, more than three-quarters of it public money.

  Real Estate · Aspen Yang · August 13, 2026

• Manhattan's Luxury Market Surges to a Five-Year High, With 312 Sales Above $10 Million in the First Half of 2026

  Billionaire Row is filling up again, international buyers are back in force, and the median price per square foot at the top of the market has topped $4,000 for the first time — a luxury sector showing no sign of cooling despite historically high interest rates.

  Real Estate · Alex Moses · August 10, 2026

• Manhattan's Pied-à-Terre Tax Arrives — and the Market Is Already Shifting

  New York's long-debated surcharge on non-primary luxury residences officially took effect this summer, and brokers say the fallout is showing up in contract signings, pricing concessions, and a surge of listings from owners looking to exit before carrying costs climb further.

  Real Estate · Alex Moses · August 4, 2026

• Brooklyn Brownstone Prices Breach $4 Million for the First Time

  Competitive bidding in Park Slope, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens has pushed the median sale price for intact single-family brownstones into territory previously reserved for Manhattan, raising questions about how long the borough's reputation for relative value can survive.

  Real Estate · Nahid Mohammadi · August 1, 2026

• The Conversion Wave: 200 Midtown Office Buildings Under Review for Residential Use

  A city task force has identified roughly 200 underperforming commercial buildings in Midtown and Lower Manhattan as viable candidates for housing conversion, a figure that dwarfs previous estimates and signals just how dramatically the office market has been permanently restructured.

  Real Estate · Bill Ren · July 30, 2026

• Can Public Land Help Build a More Affordable New York?

  Hunter’s Point South is set to gain nearly 1,000 homes, a child-care center, and a public pool on city-owned land — an experiment in whether government property can anchor mixed-income communities without displacing the people who already live there.

  Real Estate · Iris Ye · July 29, 2026

• Long Island City's Skyline Reshapes Queens — and Its Housing Market

  A decade of high-rise construction along the East River has transformed Long Island City from an industrial backwater into one of the city's most sought-after rental markets, creating spillover pressure on neighborhoods that once offered a genuine alternative to Manhattan pricing.

  Real Estate · Alex Moses · July 28, 2026

• Where New York First-Time Buyers Are Finding Footholds

  Priced out of the neighborhoods they grew up in and squeezed by rising mortgage rates, a new generation of New York buyers is finding creative entry points — from co-ops in the outer boroughs to fixer-uppers in neighborhoods that haven't yet caught a bid.

  Real Estate · Nahid Mohammadi · July 25, 2026

• Landlords Brace for Albany's Sweeping Rent Law Revisions

  New amendments to the state's rent stabilization framework close several deregulation pathways and impose stricter limits on major capital improvement pass-throughs, drawing fierce opposition from property owners and cheers from tenant advocates who have spent years pushing for the changes.

  Real Estate · Bill Ren · July 20, 2026

• The Empty Towers of Billionaire's Row

  Years after Manhattan's ultra-luxury supertalls reshaped the midtown skyline, a significant share of their inventory remains unsold — a frozen market of nine-figure apartments that has become a case study in what happens when supply is built for a customer base that never fully materialized.

  Real Estate · Alex Moses · July 15, 2026

• The Bronx Is Up: Developers Eye the Borough as Manhattan Overflows

  A new wave of residential investment is flowing into the Bronx, drawn by comparatively low land costs, improving infrastructure, and a generation of buyers and renters priced out of everywhere else — testing whether the borough can absorb growth without repeating the displacement cycles that reshaped Brooklyn.

  Real Estate · Nahid Mohammadi · July 10, 2026

• Staten Island's Overlooked Waterfront Emerges as a Surprise Luxury Market

  With sweeping harbor views, larger lots, and prices a fraction of comparable Brooklyn properties, a stretch of Staten Island's North Shore is drawing high-end buyers who have decided the ferry commute is a price worth paying for space they cannot find anywhere else in the city.

  Real Estate · Bill Ren · July 5, 2026

• Co-op Boards Tighten Scrutiny as Market Uncertainty Grows

  Rejection rates for co-op purchase applications are rising across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, as boards raise financial thresholds, scrutinize employment stability, and apply increasingly cautious logic to approvals — creating friction that is reshaping how buyers approach one of New York's most distinctive housing forms.

  Real Estate · Alex Moses · June 28, 2026