The short answer: PiedATerreTax.nyc and its sister site secondhometax.nyc are run by Conquest Advisors, a licensed New York real estate brokerage. The sites exist to give NYC owners a free, sourced answer to one question — do I owe the pied-à-terre tax, and how much? Every figure is built from public records under a published methodology. It is educational information, not legal or tax advice.
Who we are
Conquest Advisors is a New York real estate brokerage working across Manhattan residential and commercial property — licensed by the New York Department of State, real estate license No. 10311201703 (expires March 20, 2028). When the non-primary residence surcharge became law in 2026, the first calls owners made were not to law firms — they were to the people who know their buildings. The questions were always the same: what does the city think my apartment is worth, am I over the threshold, and what are my options? The answers were sitting in public records — the Department of Finance assessment roll, the statute, DOF's rules — but nobody had assembled them into something an owner could actually use. So we built it for our own clients, and then opened it to everyone.
What this site is
- The calculator — an instant, ungated estimate under the statute's rates, with the assumptions stated.
- The database — every building on DOF's July 2026 supplemental roll with units over the Phase-1 threshold, distilled from all 959,710 records.
- The guides — what to do with a notice, the exemptions, entity ownership, co-ops, and neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdowns, in English and Spanish.
- The news desk — reporting on the tax as it is administered, fact-check gated before anything publishes.
- Free property reports — your unit's official DOF market value with its provenance and the surcharge test applied, emailed with no fee.
How we work
- Primary sources only. Rates, thresholds, deadlines, exemptions and penalties come from NY Tax Law Article 30-C, DOF's final rules adopted July 14, 2026, and DOF's published roll — not from secondhand summaries. Where commentary elsewhere conflicts with the primary record, we follow the record and say so.
- Visible dates. Substantive pages carry a "last updated" date and change when the law, DOF guidance, or the data changes — not for cosmetics.
- Review. Content is reviewed by a licensed New York real estate broker before it ships, and published articles pass an automated fact-check gate against the sources they cite.
- Ambiguity is labeled. Where the statute can be read more than one way — most importantly the flat-versus-marginal rate question — we publish the conservative reading, label it as an interpretation, and show what the alternative would mean.
- Corrections. Factual errors get fixed and noted, fast. Write to piedaterre@conquest.nyc — readers have caught us before, and the site is better for it.
How the free tools are funded
There is no paid tier, no charge for reports, and your information is never sold. Conquest is a brokerage: some owners who use this site conclude that selling or leasing is their best path, and a portion of them hire us to do it. That is the entire business model, and it is why the research can stay free.
Contact
Email piedaterre@conquest.nyc · Phone +1 (646) 480-6095 — answered 24/7 · WhatsApp · conquest.nyc. Advisors with client questions: see the professional reference, which includes batch valuation requests for client lists.
Questions owners ask
Who runs piedaterretax.nyc?
PiedATerreTax.nyc and its sister site secondhometax.nyc are operated by Conquest Advisors, a licensed New York real estate brokerage serving NYC residential and commercial clients. The site's figures are built from public records — the DOF assessment roll, NY Tax Law Article 30-C, and DOF's final rules — under a published methodology, and substantive pages are reviewed by a licensed New York real estate broker.
Is piedaterretax.nyc free, and how does it make money?
Everything on the site is free — the calculator, the database, the guides, and the emailed property reports. There is no paid tier and personal information is never sold. Conquest is a real estate brokerage: some owners who use the site later hire the firm to sell or lease a property. That is the entire business model.
Is piedaterretax.nyc legitimate?
The site is operated by Conquest Advisors, a licensed New York real estate brokerage, with a published methodology, primary-source citations on substantive claims, a stated corrections policy, and a phone line answered around the clock (+1 646-480-6095). It launched in July 2026, shortly after the pied-à-terre tax became law — automated trust scanners sometimes flag any new domain regardless of content.
Is the information on this site legal or tax advice?
No. Everything on the site and in the free reports is educational information built from public records. It is not legal, tax, or accounting advice, and no advisory relationship is created by using it. For decisions about your own liability, consult your attorney or CPA — the site's advisor reference page exists precisely to support that conversation.
Start with your own number.
Free emailed report: your official DOF market value with its provenance, the surcharge test under the stated rules, and both schedules where DOF's classification is ambiguous.
Check My Unit — FreeDisclaimer. This page is educational information from Conquest, a licensed New York real estate brokerage. It is not legal, tax, or accounting advice, and no advisory relationship is created by reading it.