Month: January 2009

Oculus squints just a bit to get it at 50 West 15 Street

can you see me now?The NY Post today demonstrates the somewhat elastic use of language in even the real estate news on this tabloid, as today’s Just Sold feature includes a new development sale at The Oculus Condominium, 50 West

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December volume + absorption / loving the actual data

  Noah The Numbers Guy comes through (again) If you are at all interested in the macro-economics impacting the Manhattan real estate market, you probably already have seen the terrific blog, UrbanDigs. Noah’s got a post yesterday that includes some

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Manhattan loft inventory as of January 11 = 863

Number of Manhattan lofts offered for sale as of Sunday night definitely reflect a new year:  price range # of lofts $500k to $999k 137 $1mm to $1.99mm 310 $2mm to $2.99mm 203 $3mm to $3.99mm 88 $4mm to $4.99mm

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30 days of Manhattan lofts sales / report coming … later

  Quick note that I have prepared another spreadsheet with information on the 40 Manhattan lofts we show as sold and closed in the last 30 days (22 resales and 18 sales by developers), but I will sit on it

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new Manhattan loft listings + closed sales in last 7 days

 This is my sixty-third 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 29 Manhattan

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Corcoran nuggets: Manhattan loft market tracks overall, bigger does better

small nugget, thatThe third big firm quarterly market report, from Corcoran (pdf, here), is like Halstead’s in that it has little loft-specific information. (I hit Halstead’s dribs and drabs on January 7; there was more meat on The Miller’s bones,

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did developer leave a lot of money on the table in 2007?

pushing past the pastThere’s a resale that caught my eye, a new construction Manhattan loft that was marketed in 2006 and closed in 2007. This Tribeca unit closed in the first offering at $1,100/ft after the developer dropped the price

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set price off low comp or high comp? too pushy (or not) in Tribeca gets neighborly

comping is hardFascinating new listing for a Tribeca loft in a fairly recent high-end Manhattan loft conversion. They are asking above $1,250/ft for space that sold in the conversion at around $850/ft, probably with many of the same proper proper

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real nuggets as The Miller counts Manhattan lofts in 4Q report

  consistent numbers + analysis … what a concept! Yesterday I hit the Halstead 4Q08 report (insofar as it addressed Manhattan lofts; i.e., not so much: nuggets from Q4 market reports / Halstead dribs + drabs). Short story: apart from

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nuggets from Q4 market reports / Halstead dribs + drabs

  not very rawThe Fourth Quarter market report from Halstead (pdf, here) has typically infuriating summary data, with little raw material of specific interest about the Manhattan loft market. As a result, I can weigh in with guesses about what it means

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