Year: 2006

Open House tour when 1,700 sq ft is just right / 3 under $2m

  For those for whom 1,700 sounds like the perfect number for a loft, here are three open houses on Sunday to check out:   11:30 – 1 133 Mercer  #6 $1.95m  $1,750/mo 13’ ceilings and four exposures, though not

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data are limited (point taken), but what next / NY Times column about the flaws in reported housing data

  Economix mixes data and opinion to complain about data David Leonhardt’s thoughtful “Economix” column this week in the NY Times highlights the conundrum of home price statistics, What Statistics On Home Sales Aren’t Saying.   His general point is

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sorry, wrong number (but still ironic) / Miller corrects the record

  year-over-year number different than quarterly decline Jonathan Miller points out on his Matrix that the NY Post article I quoted yesterday (Manhattan Bumps Real-Estate Slump) used the wrong median sale price number in comparing his report for PruDE with

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irony can be delicious / juxtaposition of PruDE quote and data in NY Post worth a smile

pumping the market, no matter the cost Today’s brief item in the NY Post Manhattan Bumps Real-Estate Slump from Bloomberg is amusing for at least one reason.   The context: The Real Estate Board of New York’s Q3 data shows

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heady pricing at The Lion

  Sunday’s NY Times “On The Market” feature included Unit 10G at The Lion’s Head, 121 West 19 St. offered by Fredrik Eklund at Core Group for $2.4mm:   PROS: This spacious loft in a doorman building has open city

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more non-news: well-priced lofts sell quickly at 55 Greene + 55 E 11

  if you price it, they will come I did this three weeks ago (

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smackdown at 3,000+ sq ft + $2.7mm / 118 E 25 vs. 116 W 29

  one of these things is not like the other (agent prose and listing pix aside) I visited these two lofts within a few days of each other. On the surface, they look pretty similar: both are rather large full-floor

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Manhattan Users Guide on Nannyhattan

  Depending on how you feel about protecting your In-Box, you should subscribe to Manhattan User’s Guide or just bookmark it and search regularly. Charlie Suisman has a lot of energy, a wide range of tastes and interests, and a

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marketing 201 / sun and clouds out of alignment at 236 W 26

  how not to sell a sun-drenched loft The new listing from Corcoran for #601 at The Capital Building, 236 W 26 St, caught my eye this morning, since I was recently in the building to see the unit directly

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precise numbers are credible

  I blogged about the widely-quoted Manhattan rental vacancy “index” produced by Citi-Habitats last week (does anybody here know stats?), wondering how statistically significant it is.   Observer also wonders Tom Acitelli at The New York Observer (late of The

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