Back in 2021, Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a federal law requiring most corporations, LLCs, and other such entities to register with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The …

“The trees along this city street, Save for the traffic and the trains, Would make a sound as thin and sweet As trees in country lanes.”                         -Edna St. Vincent Millay Trees provide us with many benefits, from the obv…

Nothing lasts forever, not even your roof. While roofs have a relatively long life compared to other building systems and components, at some point they will need either partial or full replacement. Here are the facts and factors you and yo…

A recent headline-making settlement by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is poised to substantially change the way residential realtors’ commissions are paid on real estate sales in the United States for the first time in a century…

New York City already had the largest, most extensive, most specific list of protected groups in the nation when it comes to housing discrimination. With the New York State Legislature’s passage of the Fair Chance Housing Act earlier this y…

According to a new report from consulting firm Construction Coverage, only 17.0% of NYC housing units are single-family—the smallest share among all large U.S. cities. Since the peak of the U.S. housing bubble in the early 2000s, the p…

For many co-op and condominium buildings in New York, making necessary repairs under the City’s many local laws requires cooperation from neighboring - often physically adjacent - buildings. You may need access to your neighbor’s roof, or a…

Q. I’ve lived in a pre-war NYC studio co-op for almost 40 years. While the apartment walls are well insulated against adjacent apartment sound, the floor and subfloor, being constructed entirely of wood, barely provide any sound insulatio…

Talk to anyone familiar with common-interest community governance anywhere in the country, and they will tell you the same thing: apathy is rampant among residents of co-ops, condos, and HOAs. Not only is it difficult to get owners and shar…

In multifamily residential communities, where neighbors share common space, amenities, and maintenance—if not actual walls—establishing and maintaining boundaries can be a bit tricky.  Physical boundaries are often breached by things like …