‘tis the season There is a new market after Labor Day, or at least new energy. Both buyers and sellers are “back” from the summer, whether they have been physically elsewhere or not. Many sellers decide to change the…
Year: 2006
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RISMedia reports that Texas is #3 among the top states in home foreclosure rates in July. It sticks out among states that have had significant speculator investors (Nevada, Colorado and were #1 and #2) and those whose economies are…
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WSJ’s Stewart gets smug Jonathan Miller started a thread on Matrix about market timing, in response to James Stewart in the Wall Street Journal expression of relief about not having to listen to more people brag about their real…
the scale is immense / 5 year NYC population changes
Today’s Times has a piece about New Yorkers who were here “then” and New Yorkers who are new. I don’t know if I can deal with blogging about “then” (we’ll see, next week) but the stats about how the…
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nothing stays the same / Stuyvesant Town before and (soon to be) after
two perspectives on Stuyvesant Town The Times ran two nice Op-Ed pieces on Sunday in “The City” section that come from two directions at the recent news that Met Life is putting the 100+ buildings of Stuyvesant Town and…
Loft-"like" sticks out (badly) in a loft neighborhoodI was cruising the NYTimes.com site (what you sometimes have to do without a true MLS in Manhattan) and came across this listing described as a “[v]ast loft like 2 bedroom apartment”. It…
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NOT a seller
So far as I know, Edvard Munch was not thinking about real estate when he painted The Scream in 1891, which was in the news this week because the painting – which had been stolen off a museum wall last…
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Lofts are sexy
I often get email blasts from agents about their listings, some of which are over the top, some just barely alive. For purposes of this discussion, I am amused by the apartment listings from non-loft neighborhoods that describe the…
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The politics (?) of press reporting on recent sales / NY Times picks two hot ones
I gotta wonder sometimes about the politics of press reporting on real estate…. I am not saying there is a grand conspiracy going on, or even necessarily a single editorial sensibility. And I have not paid enough strict…
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the Tao of Lofts / essential features
There must be many opinions on what makes a loft a "loft", or where the line is between merely "loft-like" and a "true" loft. I know this because I see many listings for "lofts" that – to me – are…
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