Month: November 2006

more Days on Market delirium / a flaky stat for individual sales (the 160 Bleecker example)

  the 6 months sale that was pretty quick Today’s NY Times ‘Residential Sales’ feature includes a studio sale at 160 Bleecker that was on the market “24 weeks”. I checked the details, wondering about the price history of this

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news alert! well-priced lofts sell (sometimes quickly)

  is ‘the glut’ limited to over-priced lofts? When I work with buyers – and especially when I work with sellers – we have long conversations about inventory stats and whether they indicate buyers have “a lot” of power in

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loft = designer clothes / the award for most interesting description of loft living goes to

  … the eco-conscious Tribeca mom with the guilty conscience (and the Prius) One nugget from Sunday’s ‘Habitats’ section of the NY Times Real Estate section.   The mom with the automobile commute to the Upper East Side with the

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death, taxes and

  do Manhattan private school vs. suburban public school anecdotes make a story or just sell papers? Fascinating piece in Monday’s NY Times about parents leaving Manhattan for the idyllic schools of ‘burbville and then end up springing for private

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from tennis elbow to PDA pain

  signs of the times: massage therapy for tired thumbs Attention Masters of the Universe (and other Blackberry, Treo and similar PDA users): it can hurt to over-use your device, as you may already know. But if you stay at

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a run on turtles / NY Post also discovers Turtle Bay lofts

  like a Time & Newsweek cover coincidence, almost In addition to Sunday’s NY Times ‘On The Market’ that featured #15M at 319 E 46 St, which I mentioned yesterday (real loft discovered in Turtle Bay / NY Times features

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real loft discovered in Turtle Bay / NY Times features small loft in funny place

  2d Av loft building – go figure Today’s NY Times ‘On The Market’ features a loft that is unusual in at least three ways (not counting the green walls): it is just off 2d Av, it is under $1mm,

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(no irritating Ps but) more seller psychology / are loft-sellers more prone to ego errors?

  the Lake Wobegon effect? My P-filled post about sellers not adjusting to the current market (pseller psychology pstuck pso psales psuffer?) leads to wondering about Manhattan loft sellers.   Although my prior post talked a lot about ego-driven decisions

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elections can be rough / not *those* elections

  LincolnTowers coop board election generates defamation suit The Daily News reported on a defamation suit brought by a candidate for the coop board in one of the Lincoln Towers, showing that electoral hardball is not confined to traditional politics.

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pseller psychology pstuck pso psales psuffer?

  Sellers are slow to adapt to current conditions, say some Jonathan Miller on Matrix started a chat about seller psychology, expressing the view that (in general) sellers have not accepted the current market facts.   One of the interesting

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