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Uptown Apartment Vacancies Drop to Manhattan’s Lowest

Even as Manhattan apartment rents reached an 11-year high in August, vacancies climbed across Midtown’s East and West Sides. However, Northern Manhattan saw vacancies drop 133 basis points year over year to reach 1.15%, making this the tightest submarket in the borough, according to Miller Samuel’s Jonathan Miller.

The number of new leases uptown rose 6.7% from the previous month to 751 in August, a bigger monthly gain than elsewhere in the borough, Miller reported. However, the August figure for Northern Manhattan was down 10.7% Y-O-Y—a steeper annual decline than in Downtown or the East Side, but lower than the 16.7% drop on the West Side.

Median rents in Northern Manhattan registered a smaller Y-O-Y increase than in the three other submarkets as tracked by Miller. They were up 1% Y-O-Y in Northern Manhattan, while the submarket’s August median of $2,425 was Manhattan’s lowest.

Pictured: Jonathan Miller

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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