REAL ESTATE – The scene may bring back painful memories of visits to some students. On TikTok, a New York real estate agent set out to show the world the “Worst” apartment to which he has access … And as you can see in the video at the top of this article, there is indeed something to claim for the title.
A unique room no larger than a storage room, fully furnished with a mini fridge, with a tiny adjoining closet, all for the modest sum of … 1650 dollars per month. Or about 1350 euros. “That’s the price to pay for an apartment in New York’s most fashionable neighborhood,” explains the agent, himself slightly in shock.
Contacted by AFP, the author of the video, a real estate agent, did not want to give either the address of the studio, which he located in the district of Greenwich Village, or the name of its owner.
Behind this video which makes the Internet users react by the thousands, there is of course the problem of the inflation of the rents in the big metropolises, to which Paris is not foreign, and the advantageous presentations of the “apartments under the roofs” n ‘ will not change anything … Even if the economic slowdown has lowered the price per square meter for the first time in five years.
The average rent in Manhattan was $ 3,790 last October, according to the Rent Cafe site, for an average area of 65 square meters, when the apartment in the video appears to be barely 10.
For Cameron Knowlton, the real estate agent who filmed the video, the apartment, free since October, should nonetheless find a buyer quickly, even if the ad is only circulating among real estate agents and has not been posted on any major site. real estate ads.
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