The City Council approved a bill on Wednesday that would curb a loathed New York City real estate practice: making renters ...

The broker fee, long a bane of New York City renters, just got voted out. The New York City Council passed a bill Wednesday ...

The City Council overwhelmingly passed a measure to shift the burden of broker fees to landlords. Here’s what that means for ...

In New York, unlike nearly every other part of the country, tenants usually pay the fee even though landlords usually hire ...

The New York City Council passed, in a 42-8 vote, a bill that will put an end to forcing tenant-paid brokers fees, as the ...

New York City landlords will be required to pay costly broker fees for tenants under a plan approved by the City Council that ...

Don’t believe the real estate industry’s arguments against the bill shifting fees to landlords, writes columnist Ross Barkan.

The New York City Council approved new legislation on Wednesday that will eliminate hefty upfront broker fees for most ...

The legislation would eliminate a fee imposed to be shown an apartment, have an application be processed and sign a lease.

Mandatory broker fees, an unusual feature of New York City apartment hunting long reviled by renters, will be banned under ...

New York City appears to getting rid of broker fees. In Boston, where 65-percent of residents rent, it's still an issue.

Opponents of the legislation say the measure could lead to higher rents and argue that landlords could put broker fees into ...