Sellers are now even more reluctant to list their homes, fearing falling prices and the risks of having strangers touring their apartments as the new coronavirus spreads.Manhattan real-estate was already in a two-year slump.
There were 44 open houses that had zero traffic the weekend of March 7-8, according to Fritz Frigan, executive director of sales and leasing at the New York residential real estate brokerage Halstead. Those 44 empty open houses represented 13% of all open houses, up from 9% two weeks earlier.per open-house from an average of 5.6 on Feb. 23, before the virus was reported in New York.
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studios now at 1.150.000 in stead of 1.200.000