Suzannah Cavanaugh

Rent law, then Covid leaves family landlord with no choice but to sell

New York

Rent law, Covid leave family landlord with one choice: sell

Georgia Kromrei

Landlord petition for a property tax strike in response to rent strikes used a Black Lives Matter slogan (Credit: background via ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Property tax strikers: “We can’t breathe”

Danielle Balbi

James Kleimann

New York Brokers React on Social Media to Rental Fee Change

Here’s what TRD’s Instagram followers are saying about the broker fee ban

All Markets

Rent Laws

E.B. Solomont

REBNY President Jim Whelan (Credit: iStock; Whelan by Anuja Shakya)

Rental commissions are back — for now

Erin Hudson

REBNY President James Whelan (Credit: iStock; Whelan photo by Anuja Shakya)

Stop the “havoc and confusion:” Industry petitions to overturn ban on broker fees

Kathryn Brenzel

Here’s how landlords and property managers are dealing with the changes to broker fees (Credit: iStock)

“I feel really bad for those agents”: How landlords and property managers are responding to broker fee rule

New York Community Bank CEO and president Joseph Ficalora (Credit: Facebook, iStock)

Community banks put on brave face after rent-reg market woes

From left: Douglas Elliman's Howard Lorber, Brown Harris Stevens' Bess Freedman, REBNY's James Whelan, Bohemia Realty's Sara Saltzberg and Corcoran's Pam Liebman

Real estate industry to sue NYS over rental commission ban

Top row, from left: Warburg Realty's Frederick Peters, Compass' Rory Golod and R New York's Stefani Berkin; bottom row, from left: Bohemia Realty Group's Sarah Saltzberg, Corcoran Group’s Gary Malin, Triplemint's Philip Lang and Bold New York's Jordan Sachs

Ignore or adhere: Brokerages divided in response to rental fee ban

Kevin Sun

Katherine Kallergis

Following the latest rule changes in New York, Boston appears to be the last major city where tenant-paid broker fees are common practice.

Broker fees for NYC rentals mystified outsiders. Here’s how other US cities do it

TRD Staff

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh (Credit: Getty Images)

Boston takes a cue from New York, looks to reverse broker fee system

Eddie Small

Tenant advocates celebrate landlords’ having to pay broker fees

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan

James Whelan and Julia Salazar (Credit: Getty Images, Facebook, iStock)

End of tenant-pays broker fees is “death knell” that will cost jobs and up rents, industry says

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Secretary of State Rosana Rosado (Credit: Getty Images)

Landlords, not tenants, must pay rental broker fees: state

From left: Corcoran CEO Pam Liebman, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, Related Chairman Steve Ross, and Albany's State Capitol (Credit: Getty Images, iStock)