Lucy Cohen Blatter

Earlier this week, a five-alarm fire ripped through a new condo under construction in Chelsea. According to StreetEasy, several of the apartments in the building were on the market this summer, ranging from a $2.875 million two-bedroom to a $6.45 million three-bedroom.

Talk about transportive: This $5.95 million loft looks to have taken inspiration from Morocco, and is a welcome respite from the cookie-cutter condo world. But even if it's not your style, per se, there are a lot of things to appreciate about this apartment aside from its Mediterranean flair.

For New Yorkers missing the college dorm experience, your prayers have been answered. This week co-living startup Common has opened its first building in Crown Heights. TechCrunch caught up with founder and tech entrepreneur Brad Hargreaves to find out more about what's going on, but here's the gist:

We have a sneaking suspicion that the best thing about this $3,000 Boerum  Hill "junior one" is what's outside—both the pretty garden (with grass!) and the picture-perfect townhouse facade out front.

We're wondering, though, where exactly the bedroom is. And whether it's more of a one-bedroom or a studio, this place is pretty pricey for the neighborhood, well over the median for both.

Considering the near-constant barrage of headlines about apartment prices consistently breaking records in each borough, you could be forgiven for taking a sky's-the-limit approach to pricing your own apartment. But you really shouldn't.