Housing

New York City sounded the alarm this week after a report shed further light on the city’s housing crisis. The amount of available apartments across the five boroughs dropped to a low rate not seen in more than five decades, according to the NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey. The report, done on average every three or so years, found...

Here are the top 10 “hottest housing markets” for 2024. However, homebuyers should consider that “market heat” means more competition, an expert says.

Living in New York has enough challenges, made worse when your building faces a number of violations from the city, ranging from hot water outages to nonfunctioning heat units. Each year, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams releases a list of the worst landlords in the city based on average open violations. This year, landlord Daniel Ohebshalom, along with…

The annual list of the worst landlords of 2023, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, has been released.

Finally, a bit of good news for renters in New York City. A new report from Douglas Elliman found that rents in the city have dropped for a third straight month. But, don’t expect to find pre-pandemic prices anytime soon. “Prices are no longer rising like a rocket ship. We essentially peaked in the summer,” said Jonathan Miller, of...

Rent is down in NYC for the third straight month. News 4’s Andrew Siff reports.

In the wealthiest ZIP code in the U.S., a median priced home will cost you around $8 million.

Mayor Eric Adams touted a major legal victory last week against one of New York’s “most notoriously bad landlords.” The city won $4 million through three lawsuits against Daniel Ohebshalom, or Daniel Shalom, and his business affiliates, Adams announced on Thursday. The Office of Special Enforcement netted $1.1 million from one of those lawsuits, according to the city, for outstanding…

People in the U.S. are increasingly living alone. These cities saw fastest growth of solo renters between 2016 and 2021.

For the fourth year in a row, Neighbor.com ranked the most neighborly cities in America based on several factors, including low crime rates.

An estimated 39 million homes and businesses in the United States could soon face skyrocketing insurance premiums — if they can even find insurance coverage at all. That’s according to a new report from First Street Foundation, which warns that this “insurance bubble” could lead to a costly, widespread housing crisis coast-to-coast.

Residents of an apartment complex in Plainfield are pushing back after they were given only 24 hours notice to vacate their homes after the building was condemned. Gaby Acevedo reports.

The White House also announced that it was forming an inter-agency task force to develop ways to fund efforts to convert more commercial buildings to residential housing

Mayor Adams is signaling that he might sue after the council overrode a veto. Andrew Siff reports.

The city plans to demolish and redevelop the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliot NYCHA houses. Myles Miller reports.

As the cost of living in the U.S. continues to climb, foreclosures are also on the rise.

Mobile home parks are among the few affordable options that remain for extremely low-income people.

In 2020, 27-year-old Precious Price built a tiny home in her backyard for $35,000. The income she earns from renting out her main house covers all her living expenses, including mortgage fees and property taxes. Here’s exactly how she built it — from start to finish.

The program is a measure that enables low-cost sales to residents who have lived in this city for five years or more or have been displaced by gentrification

After struggling to find an apartment rental in London on a budget, Harrison Marshall turned a dumpster into a tiny home for $5,000. Here’s a look inside his “weirdly comfortable” 25-square-foot space, where he now lives for $62 a month.