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:
New York City property management firms have reportedly uncovered a widespread scheme to surreptitiously scan complete sets of board minutes, potentially for profit-minded purposes.
According to the March issue of Habitat magazine, which hit mailboxes yesterday, a person or persons purportedly conducting due diligence on behalf of buyers has been using a portable scanner to make unauthorized scans of complete sets of minutes. Multiple property management companies have been targeted over the past eight months.
Q. My co-op wants to stay competitive with newer condos in our downtown neighborhood. In what order would you rank the following projects in terms of their effect on resale values: Lobby and hallway renovation, roof deck addition, elevator replacement, playroom/gym addition?
Construction on the Second Avenue subway line is scheduled to be completed in 2016, and as any seller or real estate broker will tell you, the current mess isn't exactly helpful to sales: Four years, after all, is a long time to live in a construction zone.
But with most U.S. homes changing hands every 7 years on average, do appraisers take a longer view when evaluating an apartment on the market today?
Now this is a fine mess.
According to a recent report in the NY Daily News, a couple who agreed to buy a sprawling family-sized Upper East Side apartment early last year for $2.65 million on the assumption that they could install a washer-dryer have cancelled their contract and are suing for the return of their $265k deposit.
