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:
A little while back, we asked Manhattan appraiser Jonathan Miller to explain how much a higher floor is worth.
We don't know about you, but we would rather lose our elevator privileges for a year than live in an apartment that takes months or longer to sell.
Being a real estate wallflower is not only frustrating and disruptive, it’s also expensive: The best offers tend to come within the first few weeks, followed by the slings and arrows of multiple price cuts and lowball offers.
While there’s no such thing as wallflower insurance, here are a few tips for a speedy sale:
Some New York City apartment dwellers prefer to live without doormen, citing privacy concerns, smalltalk avoidance, cheaper space, and lighter holiday tipping.
Many others put "doorman" right up there next to heat and hot water and, we wager, might even overlook a questionable side job like accepting packages for a mob-run drug smuggling ring.
This has been one crazy decade for real estate -- there's been a "boom," a "bust," and several plateaus too.
