Here is the description given in the NY Post on Aug 24 for a recent closing of a condominium loft at the Petersfield at 115 Fourth Av (at 12th St): $1,050,000 One bedroom, two-bath loft condo, 900 square feet,…
Year: 2006
internet searches correlating with home sales?
Not sure what to do with this, but it looks intriguing…. A firm that analyzes web search traffic (not sure how, but that’s another story) published a chart showing a "rough correlation" between internet searches for "houses for sale"…
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Is the buzz dead? / will Britney be the last celeb in this loft?
The Wall Street Journal carried this news to me, but I am sure other media outlets had things to say about it that I missed. Oops! It (finally) sold again Britney Spears finally sold her Manhattan loft, after…
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Eyes out for a market indicator / 240 Park Av South follows its sibling at #260
Comparing pricing at building A to building B – pretty good lab data is coming By then we will probably all know how the market is doing, but the related developments at 260 Park Avenue South (at 20th St;…
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Chuck Close lighting unresolved
That fascinating issue about whether a developer would get a variance to block the light of Noho artists’ studios (including that of Chuck Close) will continue for another month, and may be heading towards a negotiated resolution. I blogged…
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Timing the market when timing is everything / CNNMoney on
They make it sound so easy “Bubble-sitting” is the term used by CNNMoney reporter Les Christie to refer to potential buyers who anticipate that house or apartment prices will fall, so are renting in the interim. There is a…
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Another precinct heard from, and giving me a headache / Halstead
I get a headache trying to reconcile the various sources of data about what is happening in the market. Monday I addressed Miller Samuel’s Q2 report. Today I look at Halstead’s. Compared to the Miller Samuel data, Halstead’s…
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Lofts again out-perform the market / Miller Samuel 2Q 06 report
Overall, a buyer’s market with stubborn sellers The overall Manhattan market in the second quarter reflected two clear trends toward a market in transition, according to appraisal firm Miller Samuel: on the one hand all price indicators were up; on…
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a secretary + a boss + a
I am thinking that Madison Square Park is the loft-neighborhood park with the greatest number of historic statues…. The NY Times a while back ran a feature about statues in parks that started with a Tompkins Square statue of…
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The other side of the illegal loft story / conflicts with industrial policy
As a follow-up to my July 19 blog about the potential benefits from living illegally in non-residential space (such as living rent-free), there was a terrific item last week on Brownstoner.com about the tension between the City’s industrial development…
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