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Business
Mortgage rates drop below 7% for first time since March
Mortgage rates fell below 7% last week for the first time since March — leading to an uptick in the…
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Opinion
Chi Ossé’s brokers’ fee bill will make the NYC housing market worse
Rent costs in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn are at record highs, but progressive City Councilman Chi Ossé is looking to…
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Business
NYC plan to convert obsolete office buildings into residential units would solve dual crisis — but City Council stands in the way
New measures are in the works to solve the city’s housing and office crises — but they depend on whether…
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Stories
‘Landmark’ NYC bowling alley may be on its last frame as locals say they’ll be lost without it: ‘Devastating’
Whitestone Lanes may be on its last frame. The landmark Queens bowling alley is the target of city plans to…
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Business
Chicago to hand $150M to real estate developers to transform vacant office buildings into apartments
Chicago will grant $150 million in subsidies to real estate developers to convert unused office space in the once-vibrant downtown…
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Business
Locked out of the US housing market? Here’s how to win ‘revenge’ in the meantime
Hacked off with soaring housing costs and stubborn mortgage rates? Disgusted by skimpy supply and the fierce bidding wars that…
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Stories
NYC to shell out $80M on Brooklyn pier repairs, ‘planning’ for massive port overhual
The city is shelling out $80 million to repair three Brooklyn piers and “fund planning” for a massive overhaul of…
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Business
OnlyFans model with three homes says it’s ‘understandable’ for landlords to raise rent
A young landlord who owns multiple properties has revealed why she thinks it is totally “understandable” for landlords to raise…
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Opinion
Albany’s flawed new housing tax break just killed a magnificent Brooklyn project
Don’t believe Gov. Hochul’s so-called replacement for the 421-a tax-abatement program will spur the creation of new homes the way…
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Business
Lawmakers want to ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes
Wall Street firms in recent years have spent billions aggressively scooping up single-family homes with cash — but a growing…
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