Marjorie Cohen
Marjorie Cohen is a New York City-based freelance journalist, editor and author of over seven non-fiction books. Her real estate reporting has appeared in amNewYork, Investopedia, and The West Side Rag. Since moving to New York five decades ago for graduate school at the Teachers College of Columbia University, Marjorie has lived on the Upper West Side, with a brief detour to West 15th Street when she got six months free rent in a new building. Her current apartment is rent-stabilized and she is never, ever, going to willingly leave it.
Posts by Marjorie Cohen:
You’d have to be living in a cave or on a desert island not to know how hot the New York real estate market is this spring.
Gary Malin, president of Citi Habitats sums up what everyone is thinking: “We are in an appreciating market right now and prices have the potential to reach all time highs in the near future. ...If the sales market continues on this path, it will surpass its previous high, which was set in 2008, some time this year."
Much has changed in the year and a half since BrickUnderground first took an in-depth look at new construction concessions and how to get them.
Back then, recalls real estate broker Leslie Hirsch of Brown Harris Stevens, “we saw sellers offering to pay the maintenance or common charges in the form of a post-closing rebate. We saw sellers offering to pay for renovations and sellers offering financing."
