Manhattan Three-Bedroom Apartments Suddenly Seem Like a Bargain
(BLOOM BERG NEWS) Oshrat Carmel, June 17, 2018 — Manhattan’s shrinking rents are prompting apartment-dwellers to think big.
Units with three or more bedrooms accounted for 12.2 percent of new leases in May, the largest share since appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate started tracking the data in 2011. Excluding renewals, deals were signed for 767 apartments in the category, a 20 percent jump from a year earlier.
Manhattan renters are all hunting for a bargain, and the biggest ones to be had are with the borough’s largest homes. For apartments with three or more bedrooms, the median rent fell 5.8 percent from a year earlier to $5,650. By comparison, rates for two-bedroom units dropped 4.6 percent to $4,295, and one-bedroom rents were up 0.3 percent to a median of $3,459.