Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble — could it be that New York's real-estate market isn't as hot as so many brokers say it's gotten? According to PropertyShark, it depends on the neighborhood. The data-rich real-estate site offers a "Triple Bubble Trouble" city map, marking which Zip Codes suffer from three signs of a real-estate bubble perhaps set to burst: decreasing prices per square foot, increased foreclosures, and a slowdown in the volume of sales in the first quarter of this year compared to the previous three months. Which neighborhoods show a triple whammy? Some surprising areas, like Midtown East and the far West Sixties. "The market's softening up in some places," says PropertyShark CEO Ryan Slack. "Everything falls sometime." —
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Triple Bubble Trouble (by Zip Code) [Property Shark]