Confidence among the city’s residential brokers rose in the beginning of 2017 for the first time in a year. According to the Real Estate Board of New York’s survey, residential brokers’ confidence ticked up slightly in the first quarter, following a year-long slide beginning in early 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported. Activity during the first quarter may have helped boost brokers’ outlooks. The number of contracts signed on apartments and townhouses climbed 3.9 percent […]