Teri Karush Rogers
Founder and publisher Teri Karush Rogers launched Brick Underground in 2009. As a freelance journalist, she had previously covered New York City real estate for The New York Times. Teri has been featured as an expert on New York City residential real estate by The New York Times, New York Daily News, amNew York, NBC Nightly News, The Real Deal, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, and NY1 News, among others. Teri earned a BA in journalism and a law degree from New York University. During law school she realized she would rather explain things than argue about them, so she returned to service journalism after graduation.
Posts by Teri Karush Rogers:
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Doormen may accept your drycleaning, spy on your nanny, and walk your dog once in a while, but the real super power is your super.
- Coming soon to your annual meeting (NY Times)
- The truth about sponsor apartments (Malcolm Carter)
- Do buyers mind lethal balconies? (NY Magazine)
NYC's real estate market is percolating, multiple bids are back--and there's a new mortgage contingency clause in town.
"I'm calling it the hybrid contingency," says Jerry Feeney, the Manhattan real estate lawyer who introduced us to the concept of the renovation escrow earlier this month.
Manhattan tax certiorari lawyer Jonathan Sherman used to hear once or twice a year from real estate lawyers wanting to know if their clients were buying into a ticking property tax time bomb.
Now he’s fielding 3 or 4 calls a month.
The increase is due to a tectonic shift working its way through the city’s maddeningly arcane property tax system, in which property taxes are based on how much comparable apartments rent for, rather than the actual market value of a co-op or condo.
