NY Fed- To Buy or Not to Buy?
Started by Goldie
almost 13 years ago
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Member since: Apr 2007
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http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci18-9.pdf The NY Fed has a message for Manhattan apartment buyers..... "Manhattan price-rent ratios, although off their 2008 highs, are still up dramatically over the past two decades, suggesting less financial “value” today in an apartment purchase there." "Apartment prices in Manhattan have increased substantially relative to rents over the past seventeen years, raising concern about the sustainability of current prices."
I think W81 posted link above with some additional insight a few days ago as second comment in this thread: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/33401-wsj-dont-buy-manhattan-apts.