Real Estate
For NYC Listings, Time Is an Enemy. Brokers Want It Stopped
- Agents lobby StreetEasy to suspend ‘days on market’ counts
- Showing homes is tough with coronavirus keeping buyers indoors
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New York real estate brokers, worried about home listings getting stale while would-be buyers heed coronavirus warnings, are seeking a way to stop the clock.
A group of agents has asked the listings website StreetEasy to cease counting the number of days that a property has been on the market while the city works through a prolonged shutdown of economic activity.