Manhattan Apartments Hit $4,000 Median — and It's Going to Get Worse

Competition, already fierce, will only intensify as the apartment market’s busiest season gets underway.

Apartment buildings in New York.

Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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Manhattan apartment rents continued skyrocketing last month, with the median hitting $4,000 for the first time on record.

Rates on new leases jumped 25% from a year earlier to reach that benchmark dollar figure, an all-time high in three decades of data-keeping by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate.