therealdeal.com – In the latest batch of New York City real estate market reports, Manhattan and Brooklyn home prices continued to climb in April and nationwide home sales reached its highest in a decade. Commercial reports show small multifamily owners are less likely to take out a mortgage and Lower Manhattan’s Downtown Alliance spent more than any other business improvement district in the city. Check out more in our roundup of the week’s market reports.

Nationwide pending home sales reached a 10-year high in April, and was up for the third consecutive month. Read the full report here.