Rants and Gems #149Mamdani WINS: The Rent Freeze Reality & NYC Real Estate's New Era
Rants & Gems Real Estate Podcast
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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Zohran Mamdani just won — and New York City real estate will never be the same.
In this live breakdown, MG The Mortgage Guy cuts through the noise to unpack what Mamdani’s victory really means for landlords, investors, and homeowners.
We’re diving deep into:
- The truth about the proposed citywide rent freeze and who it actually helps or hurts
- How Mamdani’s plan to build 200,000 affordable units could reshape NYC’s housing supply
- The coming property tax reform and which neighborhoods will pay more
- Zoning and green building mandates that could change development economics overnight
- Why small landlords and large investors are reacting very differently
No politics. Just straight real estate game — numbers, data, and strategy for what’s next in the NYC market.
If you own, rent, or invest in New York, this is the conversation you can’t afford to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? |
| 0:01.1 | We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee. |
| 0:22.7 | Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. you at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle |
| 0:21.1 | out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at |
| 0:25.9 | business.gov.com.ukes. Eligibility criteria apply. My Donnie wins, y'all. The rent freeze, |
| 0:35.1 | reality in New York real estate. |
| 0:40.8 | New Error is about to begin, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:42.1 | Welcome back to the channel. |
| 0:48.3 | This is Matt Garland in MLS number 5-870, but better known as M.G. |
| 0:49.8 | The Mortgage Guy, we are alive. |
| 0:50.7 | We are blessed. |
| 0:52.8 | Thank God for another day. |
| 1:00.0 | The New York City election, world election all across the country is finally done. |
| 1:08.5 | A lot of new mayors. But the one that's getting the most headlines, obviously, is New York. New York is the mecca of everything. If you're from New York, first of all, type will borrow you from in chat. Queens get the money. If you're from Queens, |
| 1:14.7 | type all caps to Q, Gtm, let's grow, right? |
| 1:20.3 | Type in a chat will borrow you from. And if you're from New York State, type that in the chat, too. |
| 1:24.1 | I know this doesn't impact you at all but type where you from represent in the |
| 1:30.5 | comments man but today we're going we're going we're going break this down a little bit today for you |
| 1:34.9 | guys man because my phone has been crazy over the past two weeks everybody has been kind of going |
| 1:42.2 | crazy about mom Dani. |
| 1:45.3 | I actually was honored. |
| 1:48.0 | Shout out to Troy, Mike, Rashad. |
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