Comptroller Levine emphasized that the Adams Administration’s FY26 spending levels, which exceed revenue, and failure to properly budget for known, re-occurring expenses, have led to unusually high budget deficit projections for FY26 and FY27.
New York recorded the lowest turnover rate among the top 50 metros, with only around 10 out of every 1,000 homes selling in the first nine months of the year.
The share of first-time buyers in the market has contracted by 50% since 2007—right before the Great Recession. The implications for the housing market are staggering.
As inventory inches up and prices continue to rise, more households are being locked out of homeownership and pushed into rental markets that cannot keep up.
Month-over-month comparisons revealed significant regional variation. Sullivan County led the surge with a 16.4% jump in median home prices, followed by Putnam County with an 11.3% increase.
At the metro level, seven of the 50 largest U.S. markets were in buyer’s market territory in June with six months or more of supply: Miami, Austin, Orlando, New York, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Riverside, CA.
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