• brandon@piefed.social
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      30 days ago

      Most NYC residents rent, they don’t purchase the homes they live in.

      $1.3M is actually lower than I would have guessed for this neighborhood considering the amount of homes here that are probably worth more than $10M (maybe it’s a median, not a mean?).

      A quick search does show a bunch of listings for studios less than $500K.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        140K is an after-tax income of 100K. If you spend 75% of your after-tax income on housing (which is utterly insane but people do it), that’s $6250 per month, which could support a house price of $800,000 to $900,000. Not a lot for Manhattan.

        You could also pay $6250 a month for rent which is also utterly insane, but would at least get you a somewhat normal apartment with some actual space.