Month: May 2007

Sunday open houses lofts under $1.5

  324 W 23 St #6A 1,150 sq ft condo for $1.295mm ($1,395/mo) 2 BRs + 2 balconies that looks more like an apartment than a loft; on the market a month Open House 11 – 1   115 Fourth

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what would Cass Gilbert think / 130 W 30 St challenges

  great building! the block … not so much There are few great loft buildings in Manhattan that separate the Prefer-Loft people from the Love-Lofts people the way The Cass Gilbert does, at 130 West 30th Street. Indeed, this building

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portal potted / REBNY website to limp out in September

  weak-ass website coming It may sound like inside baseball to many, but the saga of the REBNY public web portal is a fascinating story, with important implications for how coops and condos are marketed and bought in Manhattan. I

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under $800/ft at 1200 Broadway (still too high?)

  #7C at 1200Broadway (the Gilsey House) is new today, offering a lot ofspace (1,950 sq ft) for the money ($1.55mm and $2,007/mo) in acentral location. As PruDE’s Pam Huson says, this is definitely nota “cookie cutter” loft. It does,

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would you pay $2mm for a Soho roof terrace? (loft is another $2mm at 458 Broome)

  I blogged on May 1 about a one bedroom + 2 bath loft with a “heavenly” roof terrace and 17 foot ceilings when PH-5 at 458 Broome Street was newly listed (before photos or floor plan on the Eychner

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aiming high at The Lyla 63 W 17 / one bed wonders about $$$$

  #3B at 63 West 17th Street is a new-this-week One Bed Wonder that makes me wonder about value. (What is a One Bed Wonder?) With 1,217 sq ft in an exclusively one bedroom layout, $1.85mm is a serious price,

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177 Duane

  I don’t know that it helps a listing sell if the agent says something like “hurry, hurry, hurry, this hot one won’t last” – not my style — but you see it often enough. If you do it, however,

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241 W 23 St is back / 3 strikes, not out, at $752/ft

  241 W 23 St #5B still for sale, but why? There are not many opportunities to get 2,000 sq ft of “the very definition of a ‘Classic Loft’” in Chelsea (on 23rd St, but still – this line looks

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116 W 29 St still not

  I was particularly … intrigued by the listing for the 8th floor at 116 West 29th Street back in December because I saw it virtually in tandem with another loft also described as “magnificent”, also about 3,000 square feet,

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new contract at American Thread, 260 W Bway

I described #4G at 260 West Broadway (the fabled – to me – Manhattan loft American Thread Building) when it was new to the market in early March (new this week at 260 West Broadway ). It is said to

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