The Next Amenity? Furnished Condos
Developers are catering to buyers who want a true move-in experience, with the furniture already in place.
The Lofts Pier Village in Long Branch, N.J., an oceanfront residential complex, is selling one- to four-bedroom apartments both furnished and unfurnished.Credit.Laura Moss for The New York Times
By Hannah Selinger
March 16, 2021
Developers looking for new ways to market apartments during the pandemic have decided that more is better, so they have begun to offer buyers furnished apartments, solving two design problems: many people are wary about shopping in stores and are also leery of the current backlogs in the home furnishings market.
Covid-19 made pets more popular than ever – now luxury residences from New York to Singapore are offering pet concierges, grooming services, mud rooms and dog parks Peta Tomlinson The heated outdoor dog run at rental property 555TEN in Hudson Yards, New York City. Photo: Extell Development.
Covid-19 lockdowns have brought with them a worldwide upsurge in pet adoptions as people finally found time to care for a furry family member - and enjoy the stress-relieving benefits animals can bring.
This has been a global phenomenon: in New York, demand for dogs was totally unprecedented , according to non-profit Foster Dogs. In Australia, the RSPCA s phones have been running off the hook . And in the United Kingdom, according to one survey, nearly half of all Britons who already own a pet went and got at least one more.