Leigh Kamping-Carder

When you’re trying to get a handle on the Manhattan real estate market, it’s easy to get buried under an avalanche of numbers. Between average prices, submarket breakdowns, year-over-year changes and the rest, how can you tell what’s the most relevant data for your apartment search or sale?   

Q. My co-op doesn't allow pied-à-terres. I'm moving to L.A. next month and I'd like to keep my studio for occasional visits. Will they force me to sell it? Is that even legal?

Make your small space roomier with a little elbow grease--and zero cash (Apartment Therapy)

Bye bye Brooklyn: 20 reasons to move to Queens (Thrillist)

Priced out of Brooklyn and looking in Queens? You’ll have company (NYDN and NY Mag)

Rents generally fall in the winter and come back in the warmer months, but in Brooklyn, it's been swimsuit season for almost a year now.

This is what you're up against: 30 percent of buyers in brownstone Brooklyn make $300,000 a year (DNAinfo)

Get inspired by eight gorgeous apartments under 400 square feet (Apartment Therapy)