The PropertyClub Blog

To afford a $10 million home, you'll need to make an income of at least $1.6 million per year. But that's under the best conditions, and most experts recommend making closer to $1.8-2 million to be on the safe side.

Ownerly is a company that gives homeowners details about the housing market in your area. They have also started offering home finance reports for a thorough experience. This review of Ownerly will examine how their service works, the costs involved, the safety of the platform, and alternatives.

Whether you’re repainting to prepare your home for going on the market, or just refreshing your living space, putting a fresh coat of paint on your walls can give your home a whole new feeling. While the process of painting seems pretty straightforward, if you don’t do it properly, you’re just asking for trouble down the road. One of the big things that are often neglected is giving one coat sufficient time to dry before applying the next coat.

In today’s world, more and more aspects of your life are being digitized in an effort to make things easier. As hard as it may be to believe, buying or selling a home online is gaining popularity thanks to innovative companies like Opendoor. 

How is coronavirus impacting the US luxury real estate market? We’ve taken a look at the most expensive zip codes in the nation. Here’s what we found.

The New York City skyline is the ultimate embodiment of ‘starchitecture,’ and for many industry professionals, designing a skyscraper in Manhattan is a significant and coveted milestone. Some of the world’s most influential architects have left their mark on NYC, by designing office towers, museums and event centers, fabulous hotels or supertall residential skyscrapers.

The U.S. housing market can be impacted by a variety of different things, including economic shifts, global trends, and of course, politics. The country’s political climate has a significant influence on prices across all sectors, but in the U.S., housing prices are a sensitive topic. We wanted to see how the political scene of the past years has reflected in housing prices across the country’s biggest metro areas.

Living in NYC can be loud, very loud at times. There’s traffic, loads and loads of people, tourists everywhere, and a very busy nightlife. So, if you’re planning on moving to the city that never sleeps, you should know which are the noisiest streets in the city, based on complaints filed with the 311 services.

Back in 2010, Manhattan was home to the 10 most expensive zip codes in the city. Today, that top 10 is split with Brooklyn. What’s more, 6 of the 10 fastest-growing zip codes in the past decade belong to Brooklyners, with one Bronx zip code also making the list.

The New York Department of State unexpectedly banned broker fees for New Yorkers renting an apartment last week, throwing the local real estate industry into a whirlwind. Residential brokers are understandably furious and have already gone to court and obtained a temporary restraining order halting the ban, but for renters, the new rules might make life a lot easier. We’ve crunched over a week’s worth of data that shows the average New Yorker would save close to four thousand dollars, even if landlords increase monthly rents.

New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, but it’s also one of the most desirable. Even with home prices on the rise, there are still eager homebuyers out there who are willing to invest in property in the city. We looked at a decade’s worth of home sales in NYC, to see which parts of the city are the most appealing to homebuyers.

Rents have been on a constant, steady rise pretty much all over the U.S. in the past years. Over the past decade, some cities like NYC or San Francisco have become utterly unaffordable for the average renter. Interestingly enough, when it comes to mapping out where rents have increased the most over the past ten years, these cities aren’t the only ones in the spotlight.