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 tackled the subject of how to get your dog approved by a co-op board before. As we noted then, not all boards request a canine interview--and those that do usually make the requirement known well in advance. Not so for one Manhattan couple applying to a white glove Upper East Side co-op recently.
Whether by design or circumstance, open houses may be far more likely to bring your agent potential clients than to attract a buyer for your apartment. That’s a contention we’ve heard before, and it’s echoed by real estate agents and others weighing in on a NYT story about a Brooklyn couple who accepted a low offer because they were tired of prepping for open houses.
Topping the list of suburb-avoidance tactics for young NYC families is making that one-bedroom apartment last as long as possible. Just how long spawners can comfortably cohabitate with their offspring in a one-bedroom (or even a junior 4) is the question over on UrbanBaby.com. Generally speaking, most agree that a year or two is workable, with babies and parents sharing the bedroom for the first few months, before one or the other decamps for the living room.
Real estate agents increasingly negotiate deals via email or text rather than telephone or in person. If that includes your agent, listen up: A little-noticed New York appellate court decision last fall ruled that legally enforceable real estate contracts binding buyers and sellers can arise from email between their real estate agents. What does that mean for you?
Their legions of critics notwithstanding, ground floor apartments have some passionate defenders. This weekend on StreetEasy.com, we spied one of the more convincing arguments we've seen for lobby-level living:
