“An apartment that we rented in Tribeca at $4,200 pre-COVID, right? We listed for $5,000,” Platinum Properties founder and CEO Khashy Eyn said. “We got in a bidding war — ended up getting it for $6,000.”

Many people who left the city during the pandemic have returned, he said, so the rising rents are due to supply-and-demand forces.

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