No more luxury condo glut, gas outage lawsuit at NYCHA, & more

By Emily Myers | August 16, 2022 - 9:30AM

Long term gas outages at two public housing complexes in Coney Island prompt tenants to file a lawsuit against NYCHA (Brooklyn Paper)

Record sales volume along with fewer condo building conversions put an end to the glut of high-end condos (The Real Deal)

Demand shifts to listings below $500,000 as the cost of monthly mortgage payments rise, according to StreetEasy (press release)

Condo sales at One Brooklyn Bridge Park top the borough’s luxury sales, with the two priciest properties to enter contract last week (The Real Deal)

Home builder confidence fell to a new two-year low in August, as per the National Association of Home Builders (Forbes)

As extreme weather events increase, providing climate-resilient public transportation will be crucial for vulnerable communities (Next City)

Emily Myers

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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.

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