Rentals for a one-bedroom apartment average $850 a month in an older building and more than $1,650 in a new, upscale property.
A room at Common doesn't just cost more than a room in a shared Brooklyn apartment (average price: twelve hundred dollars); it costs more than some studio apartments on Manhattan's Upper East Side, which Gary Malin, the president of the real-estate broker Citi Habitats, told me can be obtained for "fifteen hundred dollars and up".
A three-bedroom apartment averages $4,795, up from $4,605 last April.
Last year, Ms. Scoca said, a two-bedroom apartment averaged $1,500 a month.
On the Upper West Side, the no-doorman two-bedroom apartment averaged $3,774, up 16.4percentt from $3,243 in December, and 62.1percentt over $2,328 in 1994.
Some three-bedroom units are as much as $1,700 a month, while two-bedroom apartments average about $1,200 to $1,400.
"Why is it that people who can't afford it have to send their kids to a bad school, if that's what they're zoned for?" said Bianca Strul, 35, who hosted the party at her apartment, in a building with a gym, playroom and private theater, and where the cost of apartments average $1,300 a square foot.
One of the reasons for this anticipated growth is that Kitzbühel — where apartments average €7,500 per square meter, or about $930 per square foot — is less expensive than resorts like Val d'Isère in France, which averages more than €10,000 per square meter, and the Swiss village of Saint Moritz, at €15,000 per square meter.
With that audience in mind, rents for Decron apartments average roughly $1,400 to $1,650 a month, which conforms to economists' advice that renters should spend no more than one-third of their income on rent.
For buildings with apartments averaging more than $15,000, Mr. Serikstad said, the tax abatement is 17.5percentt.
Then, in 2005, the developers of 15 Central Park West built apartments averaging 2,655 square feet, according to Corcoran Sunshine.
