Month: December 2008

selling the neighbor's loft / unintended consequences in a Tribeca petri dish?

pricing within a building is … interestingI remain fascinated by multiple units offered for sale in the same Manhattan loft building. I riffed on the possibility of one mistaken price leading to another on November 30 in neighborly competition leads

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too pushy in Chelsea / trying to keep secrets??

waiting for the ignorant buyer?This post started out being about the recent sale of a Chelsea loft, but it got more interesting (and April 9 complicated) because the same unit on a lower floor is also for sale. I can

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find the number, hit the number / 35 East 12 Street closes

sounds simple, no? (no!)Sometimes those silly buyers pay very close attention to the first, or even to the second, digit in an asking price, so sellers use the ‘wrong numbers’ at their peril. In the case of the Manhattan loft

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are Manhattan prices off 15% since mid-Summer?

The Miller thinks soHere’s the (slight mis-)quote in The Fed’s Beige Book from Jonathan Miller, as noted in his blog, Matrix, on Wednesday (my bold in the quote):  Here’s the NY District perspective from you know who. A major residential

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Goldilocks in the too pushy ..? thread in greater midtown

the right ideaThere’s a corridor in the Greater Midtown area with a lot of new Manhattan condo developments, some lofts, some not. One 2007 loft conversion has a new listing this week priced about $150/ft less than the original purchase

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Sugar is sweet but 79 Laight Street closing is better

new-ish Tribeca condo under $1,100/ftThe NY Post Just Sold feature today has some of the basic info about a Manhattan loft in pretty prime Tribeca that was converted in 2002 (a relatively high level of building amenities): TRIBECA $2,525,000 79

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Manhattan loft inventory as of November 30 = 838

Number of Manhattan lofts offered for sale as of Sunday night:  price range # of lofts $500k to $999k 119 $1mm to $1.99mm 301 $2mm to $2.99mm 199 $3mm to $3.99mm 86 $4mm to $4.99mm 49 $5mm to $10mm 84

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to Chelsea to push the too pushy …? thread

pushy, pushy, pushy (or not)This week’s Chelsea candidate for the Manhattan loft Goldilocks question (we started this thread on November 14 with two in 2 new Tribeca lofts too pushy or just pushy enough?? and have been reheating it like

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new Manhattan loft listings + closed sales in last 7 days

 This is my fifty-seventh 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.The stats as of Sunday night: there were only 13

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