Emily Myers
Senior Writer/Podcast Producer
Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California. In spite of her itinerant background, she has been living in the same Brooklyn rental since 2016.
Posts by Emily Myers:
NYC's aging scaffolding, solving the city's delivery truck problems, & more
By Emily Myers
December 5, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Williamsburg tops a StreetEasy list of the 2020 neighborhoods to watch, with Clinton Hill, Jamaica, Midwood, and Highbridge on the list as renters and buyers head to the outer boroughs for affordability.
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How do you calculate a cap rate, and why are capitalization rates so low in NYC?
By Emily Myers
December 5, 2019 - 09:00 AM
Cap rates (aka capitalization rates) are used to calculate the rate of return on your property investment. To calculate, take a building's net operating income and divide it by what you would pay for the property. Cap rates are consistently low in NYC, around 2 or 3 percent, because apartments here are notoriously expensive and buyers often need financing in place (which eats into your profit margins), and taxes are high.
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A record breaking sale for Red Hook, the not-so-affordable housing lottery, & more
By Emily Myers
December 3, 2019 - 11:00 AM
The Lower East Side skyscraper, One Manhattan Square, is the best-selling residential building of the year with 119 apartments sold in the past 12 months.
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Learn to use a fire extinguisher, block home invasions, and other tips to stay safe in your NYC apartment
By Emily Myers
December 3, 2019 - 10:00 AM
Robert O’Brien, co-owner of NY Fire Consultants and a former FDNY firefighter, says it’s the simplest things that cause the worst tragedies, like overloaded extension cords or not changing the batteries in your apartment’s smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
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My co-op board interview: I didn't catch the clue to the building's culture
By Emily Myers
November 26, 2019 - 13:00 PM
This week, Louis Alcamo, a pseudonym, shares his experience buying two co-ops, both near Gramercy Park. In the first, he fielded awkward questions from an eccentric board president and in his second he received clues to how the board might operate, but he overlooked because he was hooked on the apartment. He says, next time, he'd be much more forthright about getting answers from the board about house rules before he puts in an offer.
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South Brooklyn buses get funding, Netflix leases the Paris Theater, & more
By Emily Myers
November 26, 2019 - 11:00 AM
An agreement has been reached with National Grid to restore gas to hundreds of residents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island.
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