If you’re buying
Relative to the other three segments, apartment condos currently give buyers the most breathing room — more of each month's new listings wait for a buyer, and that wait is where negotiating leverage lives. Use it methodically: on price, on conditions, on timelines. Citywide, selection is better than it was a year ago, so you can afford to be pickier than the headlines suggest. With a condo, the document review is the inspection: fees, reserve-fund health, and any looming special assessment matter more than the countertops. A cheap unit in a poorly funded building is not cheap.