This spring, prime Brooklyn townhouse listings, which usually hover around a dozen, shot up to 91, dipping only slightly to a still unusually high mid-70s in early September, according to Streeteasy.
Parents, particularly those preparing to spend large sums of money on housing for their children, not-infrequently show less zeal than their progeny for the new Brooklyn—and greater reluctance to relinquish old stereotypes. The tendency becomes more pronounced still when Mom and Dad contemplate not merely covering the rent but actually buying in—funding, in part or in whole, the purchase of property.