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The best advice for NYC buyers, according to Prevu, a New York City real estate brokerage, is to thoroughly look online, request and view as many virtual tours as possible via your buyer’s agent, and narrow down the list of NYC apartments you are interested in before taking it to the next level—an in-person showing.

Roomrs is a NYC-based hospitality start-up that eliminates some of the city's biggest real estate hurdles through their flexible and transparent all-inclusive living experience.

An Upper West Side co-op owner turned to Bolster for her renovation. Bolster is a New York City-based, data-driven design-build firm on a mission to eliminate risk from major home renovations by being radically transparent across everything they do.

Co-ops and condos have completely different legal frameworks—in a co-op you have a proprietary lease and in a condo you have real property, namely a deed. “Eviction requires that there be a landlord-tenant relationship, or a relationship as defined in the statute and ownership of a condo does not fall into that category,” says Steve Wagner, a real estate attorney and partner at the Manhattan law firm, Wagner Berkow & Brandt.  

The average master bathroom renovation in NYC takes around four months. The team at Block Renovation streamlines each step of the process, which allows them to complete a bathroom renovation in a couple of months.

Tenants in New York City now have many more protections thanks to sweeping rent reforms passed in June. Host Emily Myers is joined by attorney Sam Himmelstein to consider what the changes mean for New Yorkers.