A real-estate agent offers a theory on New York's one-bedroom apartment shortage: “Everybody broke up in the pandemic, and all they want is one-bedrooms.” bridgetgillard reports
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images “I have no more one-bedrooms right now. None,” a real-estate agent named Rena told me on the phone one cold February morning. She had just sent me to her last option: a one-bedroom in Prospect Heights facing an interior courtyard that had the dark, cramped feel of a back office. Rent was $2,400 a month plus a broker fee. “I work from home,” I told her. “And it was a little …” “Depressing,” she filled in. “Sad. I get it.
Unbeknownst to her, Rena had, in an instant, delivered a grand unified theory for what I assumed was only my particular suffering. Of course I had known that my New York apartment search was going to be terrible: The city was in the throes of an unprecedently absurd housing market, with rents rising by double-digit percentages year over year and people outbidding each other for unspeakably degenerate places.
I reached the agent on the phone. He wouldn’t let me use his name, but he confirmed that, yes, he had witnessed a sudden uptick of breakup clientele, including himself. He was still living with his ex, and they were competing in the one-bedroom-shortage crisis. So far, they had seen each other at showings twice but had yet to bid against each other. “You’ll find a lot more studios available than one-bedrooms,” he said, “because after a breakup, people want their own space.
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