April 14th 2023
Brick Underground
If you attend one of the many colleges or universities in New York City and plan to live off-campus this year rather than in a dorm, there are a few things you need to know about apartment hunting in the current rental market.
For starters, it’s red hot. When Scotty Eyanow, a broker at Compass, was recently showing apartments near NYU, he says there were 30 groups of roommates looking at the same apartment. “It was an incredible amount of traffic,” he says. And it’s not just other students you are competing with but renters of all ages and income brackets.