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Rents jump shocking 15% after NYC ditches broker fees: ‘discouraging’

June 21, 2025
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Rents jump shocking 15% after NYC ditches broker fees: ‘discouraging’
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The city ditched broker fees last week in a supposed win for tenants, but landlords had the last laugh — wasting little time sending rents skyrocketing in an effort to recoup their anticipated losses.

Rents shot up a shocking 15% in the week since the controversial FARE Act took effect, with the average rental in the Big Apple jumping from $4,750 to $5,500, according to an analysis by real estate analytics firm UrbanDigs.

Screenshots of a text exchange showing a landlord raising rent to cover a 15% broker's fee.
New Yorkers have been sharing conversations with brokers like this one since the FARE Act was enacted on June 11. Reddit

“The Manhattan rental market has seen a sharp reaction,” said John Walkup, UrbanDigs’ co-founder.

The FARE Act, which prohibits agents representing property owners from charging renters a “broker fee,” also requires that all fees a tenant owes be included in rental agreements and real estate listings.

But the rising rents “suggests that landlords may be attempting to incorporate broker fees into the rent, which would transfer the cost to renters in a less direct, but very real way,” added Walkup.

John Walkup, co-founder and partner at UrbanDigs Analytics.
Walkup said the market reacted “sharply” to the FARE Act. UrbanDigs

The law change has created what insiders tell The Post is a “shadow market” — apartments that aren’t listed so landlords can still get tenants to cover the fee.

“We’re going to be looking for apartments again like it’s 1999 … where you have to know who to call and when to call,” said Jason Haber, co-founder of the American Real Estate Association and a broker at Compass.

“It’s going to be an odyssey.”

Portrait of Bruno Ricciotti.
Ricciotti said tenants have been asking if they can just pay the broker fee instead of the higher rent, which works out to more money over the long-term. BOND New York Real Estate

And listings dried up overnight with an estimated 2,000 vanishing from website StreetEasy on June 11 — the day the FARE Act took effect — while UrbanDigs found available apartments dropped by an eye popping 30%.

Screenshot of a social media post showing a landlord advertising a 3-bedroom apartment for $6,800 with a broker fee or $8,000 without.
A renter posted this screenshot of the two different asking prices. Reddit

Renters meanwhile have been sharing horror stories online, with receipts — like screenshots of conversations with brokers flat out telling them they get one price if they pay the broker fee and another, much higher rate, if they don’t.

One New Yorker, for instance, was told by an agent the rent was going up $700.

Woman standing in front of her apartment building in New York City.
Kebenae Tadesse said agents have still been trying to get tenants to pay the fee. Helayne Seidman

Another said a landlord was asking $6,800 for a 3-bedroom with a broker fee — or $8,000 with no fee, which is illegal to advertise under the new law.

“We’ve been inundated with prospective tenants who have asked our agents for the option to pay our brokerage commission, directly and maintain the benefit of the lower pre-Fare Act rental terms, which unfortunately, we have to tell them is now illegal,” said Bruno Ricciotti, principal at Bond New York.

“It’s so frustrating,” said Kebenae Tadesse, who had been trying to find a Brooklyn studio.

“Brokers have repeatedly said, ‘Well, if I don’t charge you this fee, the landlord is just going to put it into your rent,” she told The Post. “It’s discouraging.”

Row of historic brownstone townhouses in Manhattan.
Rents went up by 15% on average since the FARE act went into effect. goodmanphoto – stock.adobe.com

When Tadesse called out a broker for trying to pass on the fee to her, the agent took down the listing, marking it as “temporarily off market” on StreetEasy since June 11.

The post Rents jump shocking 15% after NYC ditches broker fees: ‘discouraging’ appeared first on New York Post.

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