Top analysts expect there to be a few more
vacant apartments by the end of 2014, but strong demand will keep the percentage of vacant apartments compared to overall stock very low for a very long time...
Not exact matches
Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal RuthAnne Visnauskas said, «Stadium Estates Phase II will continue to reinvigorate the JOSANA neighborhood in downtown Rochester
by replacing
vacant lots with quality affordable
apartments in attractive buildings.
The latest preliminary study, conducted
by the U.S. Census Bureau and released Wednesday, found an estimated 3.45 percent of the
apartments in New York are
vacant.
(Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times) For decades, the cost of renting a regulated
apartment in New York has been partly determined not just
by annual increases approved
by a city board, but also
by the far bigger raises allowed when an
apartment becomes
vacant.
Landlords of rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising rent 20 percent in
vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired
by subsidizing other
apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated
apartments.
Glover called on the governor to walk back a policy that allows landlords to increase rents
by 20 percent whenever a rent - regulated
apartment becomes
vacant.
REAL ESTATE — «Stringer: NYCHA
apartments left
vacant for years,»
by Capital's Kelly Weill: «Low - income
apartments run
by the New York City Housing Authority are in high demand, with more than 270,000 applicants on the authority's waiting list.
When a tenant moves into a
vacant rent regulated
apartment, the landlord is allowed to bump up the allowed rent
by 20 percent on a two - year lease, a process commonly referred to as a «vacancy bonus.»
The industry reps, however, refused to discuss ending «vacancy decontrol,» a process despised
by Silver that allows landlords to deregulate certain
apartments once they go
vacant.
A couple of years ago the public was tantalized
by a proposal to build a downtown grocery store rising out of a
vacant parking lot on Ellicott Street, along with a high - rise building with
apartments, offices and real estate space.
While Sumberg pointed out that NYCHA told auditors there were 2,342
vacant apartments as of September 2014, Kadushin responded that the number had gone down to 1,024
by May 2015.
He also wants to do away with another rule that allows landlords to raise the rent
by 20 percent after an
apartment becomes
vacant.
More than 500 NYC residents gathered together on Tuesday, December 9th at the New York Society for Ethical Culture to demand an end to vacancy decontrol, a practice
by which landlords can take a
vacant apartment out of rent regulation when the rent reaches $ 2,000.
Syracuse, N.Y. — The long -
vacant former NYNEX building near Syracuse City Hall would be redeveloped into a mix of commercial space and
apartments under plans filed
by its owner.
MPF's forecast for 2015 called for occupancy at the end of the first quarter the percentage of
vacant apartments to rise
by about 40 basis points, and for rents to keep growing, but less quickly than last years, at an average rate of about 3.6 percent to 3.9 percent a year.
Even though the Trust's mission is to facilitate the transfer of foreclosed and abandoned residential properties to local housing groups, Nickerson recognizes that «a neighborhood won't be stabilized if you have to walk
by vacant retail space or a deteriorating
apartment building to get there.»
Apartments, houses, mobile homes and even
vacant lots to be used for housing are covered
by the Fair Housing Act.