Since it is still January as I write this I can (just barely) take up the suggestion of Maureen McCabe, my Ohio blogging buddy (Discover Columbus nee Columbus Best Blog) and look back at my blogging year 2006 –…
Month: January 2007
not quite a return to the white box offering / 161 Hudson loft owner will build-to-suit
how many would buy what they can’t see? There was a time when many Manhattan loft buyers had the time, patience, resources and expertise to buy raw, primitive, blank or “white” space to turn them into something personal that…
un-neighborly neighbors / the dynamics of dysfunction
how do you solve a problem like Allan? When I was president of a small Manhattan loft coop, we used to joke about having ‘the rule of one’ – as in trying to maintain a shareholder population with no…
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$1.75mm to $1.65mm to $1.499mm in 8 weeks I am not privy to the internal owner-agent discussions for the 2d floor loft at 36 West 15 Street, of course, but they must have been fascinating. when is a…
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Counter-intuitive Sales 101 / head-scratching price change as 12 W 17 strays further north
if at first it doesn’t sell, raise the price! Last month I posted about three interesting lofts on the same block of West 17 Street off Fifth, priced under $3mm (selling West 17th St / 3 very different lofts…
NY Times on Seller Stress Syndrome
how hard is it to stay ‘show ready’ for months? There was a big article in Sunday’s NY Times Real Estate section (The Home That You Can’t Call Your Own) that dealt with the stresses that sellers live under…
more price pain on 16 St /if you knew then what you know now
4 W 16 St #8A drops a serious dollar I blogged about #8A at 4 West 16th St after a September price drop (puzzling price policy / slow death near Union Square) that turned out to be too little.…
IRS rules for coops
what does happen if a “coop” has too much income? I did a post in early December about pricing at 55 Greene St that got picked up on Curbed.com (On the Proper Pricing of Manhattan Apartments) along with a…
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Angry Agent attacks author with animation and ardor, but no ammunition I picked up the phone one day last year to catch an earful from an Angry Agent. After the (anonymous, here) AA identified him or herself, I barely…
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REBNY portal pot still perking / bad plan or just bad communications?
REBNY play defense in communicating with members about the portal They did not do it because I blogged about the “public web portal” but it so happens that REBNY circulated a memo to its residential division members soon after…
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