David Francis New York LLC

12/11/2022

So, so nervous! Good luck, girlies!

11/02/2020

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Trump made sure to protect tenants by banning evictions during the pandemic, but public officials have done almost nothing for property owners. That’s inviting disas…

10/23/2020

Unit B in 235 E. 13th St. in the East Village has sat empty since April 22.  Back then, rent for this one-bedroom was $2750 a month, according to the apartment rental and sale website StreetEasy. It has since dropped to $2,200 – a substantial 20% decrease. And it comes with a sweetener: either th...

09/30/2020

The number of apartments for rent in New York City hit record levels last month with 15,000 empty units in Manhattan alone, according to a new report.

07/23/2020

Dalan Management is in contract to pay a record $1.25 billion for a Brooklyn apartment portfolio.

07/10/2020

Thousands of New York renters left the city because of the coronavirus, and rents have finally started to go down.

06/15/2020

In Miami, just 28.6% of offers faced competition, the lowest rate of any market in this report. The metro with the second lowest bidding-war rate was also in Florida: Tampa, at 31.5%.

Detroit experienced the largest increase last month, with the share of offers facing competition climbing 26.5 percentage points to 50%. Michigan was one of the few states in the U.S. that did not deem real estate an essential service during the coronavirus outbreak, but it began to ease restrictions on the industry in early May, which likely explains the jump in Detroit's bidding-war rate.

Meanwhile, Las Vegas saw its bidding-war rate drop by 21.2 percentage points, making it the biggest decliner.

Single-Family Homes Were the Most Likely to See Bidding Wars

In May, 51.5% of offers for single-family homes faced competition, up from 45.6% in April. That compares with 48.7% of offers for townhouses and 38.8% for condos.

"People no longer want to share laundry or a yard," Louis said. "I listed a single-family home in Boston proper at the height of the coronavirus lockdown and it got 14 offers. 'Home' means more right now than ever, and we're seeing this new sense of urgency among buyers to find places with more privacy."

In some of the most competitive metros, including Boston and Seattle, agents said relatively affordable homes were the most likely to receive multiple offers.

"It feels like virtually every home between $300,000 and $500,000 gets into a bidding war now, whereas before the pandemic, it might've been closer to 50-50," said Brian Richards, an agent in Tacoma, WA, which is in the Seattle metro area. "And like never before, buyers are willing to pay above the appraised value."

Here's a metro-level look at bidding war rates in May compared with April:

Metro area

Share of Redfin offers that faced
competition in May

Share of Redfin offers that faced
competition in April*

Boston, MA

64.1%

56.0%

Dallas, TX

60.8%

43.2%

Washington, D.C.

57.0%

47.5%

Salt Lake City, UT

55.7%

57.5%

Denver, CO

55.4%

40.4%

Seattle, WA

55.2%

51.2%

Austin, TX

54.8%

44.7%

San Francisco / San Jose, CA

53.4%

52.4%

Minneapolis, MN

52.2%

41.2%

Los Angeles, CA

51.2%

47.1%

Portland, OR

51.0%

50.6%

Detroit, MI

50.0%

23.5%

San Diego, CA

49.1%

53.4%

New York, NY

45.7%

41.0%

Sacramento, CA

45.5%

53.4%

Atlanta, GA

44.2%

37.0%

Philadelphia, PA

42.7%

40.9%

Phoenix, AZ

41.9%

37.6%

Houston, TX

40.3%

37.5%

Raleigh, NC

37.7%

29.0%

Chicago, IL

34.6%

30.4%

Las Vegas, NV

33.8%

55.0%

Tampa, FL

31.5%

17.9%

Miami, FL

28.6%

26.1%

National

49.4%

43.9%

05/28/2020

Zillow-owned StreetEasy told Douglas Elliman agents on Thursday that it would remove all of the firm’s rental listings because of an “ongoing dispute.”

05/03/2020

Seems like the suburbs are going to start blooming.

Projects that could transform the suburbs around NYC get new lease on life due to density concerns

01/18/2020

Six months after Albany passed its sweeping tenant protections, New York City's multifamily market is feeling the strain. Link in bio to read how the industry is managing the aftershocks.

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01/10/2020

Brooklyn’s still hip, Queens is smashing records and that’s where buyers want to be.

Median sales prices in Kings County grew for the first time in the past seven quarters, reaching $800,000 for the final three months of 2019 and The number of sales jumped nearly 3 percent to 2,545.

In Queens, buyers’ battles were even more dramatic. Of the homes sold last quarter, 16.7 percent closed above asking price, a dramatic increase from 7.8 percent in the same period in 2018. The number of sales climbed nearly 7 percent, to 3,468.

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