Month: December 2007

AWOL / reporting back for duty

I did not plan to be away from the blogWhen I left the office on Thursday afternoon for an appointment and 2 holiday parties, I intended to be back Friday morning, ready to blog a bit before driving 5 hours Friday

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New Listings + Sales of Manhattan lofts in last 7 days

This is my ninth report on the number, price distribution and neighborhood distribution for Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market or as closed sales in the last 7 days. As usual, for information about how I get this

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no loft FSBOs for the Holidays

NY Times.com revenue to suffer?The NY Times real estate website has 677 “listings” for lofts in Manhattan between $1mm and $5mm. Not all of these are real, of course, as some are open listings for new developments posted by agents

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actual data / 5 years of median sales prices, by size of apartment

Following on yesterday’s post about Big Media ‘reading’ The Market (making sense is hard / NYT vs WSJ on The Manhattan Market), here is some hard data about the median price for closed sales in all of Manhattan, by quarter,

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18 E 12 St so hot it is going best & final today

going, going, goneI noticed #6A at 18 East 12 Street when it came to market a week ago, but did not comment on it. They held a barn burner of an open house this past Sunday and should be done

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making sense is hard / NYT vs WSJ on The Manhattan Market

people are askingMany, many, many people are asking what is The Market doing? and are as frustrated as I am that the ‘answers’ involve more anecdotes than data. Two major media pieces stoked that conversation recently. The Wall Street Journal’s

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need renovation stories / a reader writes for help

how far could $150/ft go? A faithful reader wrote in off-line asking for help in ball-parking the potential renovation expense in buying a loft that would need a lot of work. More precisely, he said: I have mostly been looking

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4 week recap of weekly loft data / new sales

Having done 8 last-seven-day reviews for newly reported loft sales as of this morning, I thought it a good time to recap on a 4 week basis. Forgive the simple presentation, and the fact that the last time I did

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4 week recap of weekly loft data / new listings

Having done 8 last-seven-day reviews for new loft listings as of this morning, I thought it a good time to recap on a 4 week basis. Forgive the simple presentation. (oops alert: when the numbers don’t total right it is

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new at 17 White / mezzanine + proper names in a Tribeca enclave

Unit 6A at 17 White Street was new to the market on Wednesday, asking through PruDE’s Ruth Hardinger and Michael Norton $3.75mm and $1,100/mo(!) for “2,533 sq ft” with 17 foot tin ceilings “stunning” architectural features and a host of

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