StreetEasy - NYC apartment search & listings

Are you interested in purchasing, renting, or selling an apartment in New York City? Gain immediate and complimentary access to the most extensive database of real estate listings across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and all five boroughs of NYC.

A Guide to Organize Your Buying Journey

🗹 Create (or update) your StreetEasy profile

It’s extremely important and beneficial to keep your StreetEasy profile updated, as it allows us to provide you with helpful content that is tailored to your needs and preferences. Your profile is where you can tell us what you’re looking for, where you are in your home-buying journey, and more.

Just go to the sign-in page to create or log in to your StreetEasy account. In the Profile tab, under Moving details, be sure to indicate that you’re looking to buy. You can also tell us other details, like where you are in your search and your financing plans.

🗹 Search by price and neighborhood

Start by searching for homes on StreetEasy by price and neighborhood, to get a sense of what’s available within your budget and desired locations. We recommend selecting one or more neighborhoods to search, as opposed to a whole borough or all of NYC, so you don’t get overwhelmed with results.

You can personalize your search even more by filtering for other specifics that matter to you, such as home type (e.g. condo, co-op), bedrooms, pet policy, and amenities (be sure to indicate which ones are must-haves!). That way, you’ll narrow down your search and avoid wasting time sorting through homes that aren’t right for you.

Additionally, you can search buildings and apply various filters.

🗹 Save searches you want to track

Never want to miss a new listing, price change, or other crucial updates? Save your searches.

Once you’ve entered a set of search criteria that you’re happy with, click the Save Search button. In the box that appears, give your search a name and save it. View or modify your saved searches at any time by going to My Activity > Saved Searches.

You can also receive email notifications whenever new homes that meet your saved search criteria hit the market, or if there are important updates like price changes. Go to Account > Notifications and choose your desired frequency of emails for each search, or opt to receive saved search roundups.

Furthermore, download the StreetEasy app for iOS or Android to get alerts on the go. Just go to Profile > Settings > Notifications and opt into push notifications for your saved searches.

🗹 Save buildings and listings you like

See a listing you like? Save it!

Or, if it’s the building you like, you can save that too.

Furthermore, you can keep tabs on your saved buildings and listings by opting into email and/or push notifications. Go to Account > Notifications and choose your settings for receiving alerts of price changes, upcoming open houses, listing status updates, etc.

To view or edit your saved listings and buildings, go to My Activity.

🗹 Share listings with a partner

If you’re looking for a new home with a partner, family member, roommate, or whoever you’ll be living with, keep them in the loop by sharing listings you like. Just click the Share button, put in your email and the recipient’s, type a message, and send. (You can also share buildings!)

🗹 Contact and work with a StreetEasy Expert

If you’ve made it this far in the checklist, StreetEasy will have a good sense of your needs and what you’re searching for in a home. As a result, we can use this information to match you with a StreetEasy Expert — a buyer’s agent or team that is highly qualified to help you find what you’re looking for.

StreetEasy Experts are teams of licensed real estate agents with verified experience helping buyers navigate the nuanced NYC real estate market. We’ll match you with an Expert or team with who deal history and expertise in your desired price point, neighborhoods, property type, or even the exact building. (Read more about working with a buyer’s agent, and why you should buy with a StreetEasy Expert.)

You can contact an Expert from a listing or building page — or, reach out to StreetEasy’s Concierge and get personalized Expert buyer’s agent matches.

🗹 Close on your dream home

Once you’ve found a StreetEasy Expert buyer’s agent you like working with, you can close on your NYC dream home with confidence and the full support of your agent. Congratulations!

Key features:

• Explore NYC apartments available for rent and sale, including condominiums, cooperatives, and no-fee options.

• Input price ranges, select specific New York neighborhoods (like "Chelsea"), and buildings (such as "Trump Tower") to narrow down your search results.

• Apply filters based on building and apartment amenities, such as doorman services, elevators, pet policies, and washer/dryer availability.

• Access property history to see how long listings have been active and navigate to specific building pages to check other available or recently sold units within the same building.

• Enjoy full-screen images of listings along with detailed floor plans.

• Contact agents seamlessly through the app.

• Automatically synchronize your saved searches, listings, and buildings with your desktop account.

How To Find Apartments For Rent With These Bonus Tips

What if you’re looking for something particular — a duplex, for instance, or a rent-stabilized apartment, or a building with a gym stocked with Pelotons — there are two ways to search.

1. If you’re on the NYC Apartments for Rent page, open Advanced Options and enter the info in the description box.

2. If you’re already searching by location, click More on the upper right and enter the info under keyword search.

Another great way to optimize your NYC rentals search is to set notifications. This lets StreetEasy do the searching for you! After setting up your search parameters, click the blue box on the far right that says Save Search. You will receive daily updates of new and updated listings that match your filter settings.

What if you’re done with Spectrum? You can search specifically for listings in buildings wired for Verizon FIOS under amenities.

Expert tip: Sean Ryan, a copywriter at StreetEasy, says, “I can’t stress enough how effective it is that you narrow down your StreetEasy search. Our filters let users cut to the chase and get in touch about homes they actually love — the data bears that out. Plus, you can save as many precise StreetEasy searches as you want by clicking the Save Search box.”