Category: Community Living

The real estate market since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on all buyers, but aspiring first-time buyers may have struggled most of all. For much of 2020 and 2021, the housing market faced a challenging combination of h…

With both real estate and rental prices rising quickly over the last two years, U.S. households that don’t currently own their home are facing a major affordability crunch. A new study by Roofstock adds some interesting data to the disc…

Gen Z is hitting adulthood at a difficult time. Defined as those born between 1997 and 2012, most Gen Zers today are firmly in early adulthood or in their teenage years. Finding footing at this stage of life is challenging enough on its own…

Prior to the 1980s, the majority of New York City apartment buildings were rentals, owned by landlords. Then, in the 1980s, many landlords realized that it would be more financially advantageous for them to sell their buildings to the tenan…

President Joe Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act earlier this week has been heralded as the most far-reaching and comprehensive legislative plan to fight climate change to date. Among many other things, it provides millions of d…

The residential real estate market in the U.S. experienced an unprecedented spike in home prices between 2020 and 2022, but signs from this spring and summer indicate that the market is cooling off. Existing home sales in the U.S. have dec…

Over the past few years, the New York City condo and co-op market has experienced something of a perfect storm. Changes to the federal tax code and COVID-19 colluded to slow down the market, even as other areas around the country were soari…

A recent analysis by Realtor.com shows that in an increasingly competitive housing market, condos, co-ops, and attached townhouses offer an affordable alternative to comparable single-family homes, especially in high-density, high-cost …

According to a new study from Inspection Support Network looking at home inventory across the U.S., the one-month’ supply of homes, which measures how long it would take the current supply of homes to sell at the current sales pace, fel…

On June 28th, NYC-based development and construction management firm New Empire Corp announced a new condominium development in Woodside, Queens. Located at 58-01 Queens Boulevard, the $16.2 million, 19,000 square-foot corner development si…