Month: April 2010

139 Reade St closes up 400%

since 1994 😉When the Manhattan loft #2A at 139 Reade Street closed on March 26 that was the first time this loft changed hands since 1994. I have done so many posts lately comparing recent resales to sales within the

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Real Deal does recent paired sales from 2005-08

veddy interesting … but few detailsNo surprise that Manhattan Loft Guy is not the only guy interested in Manhattan real estate recent paired sales. My dump of 27 Manhattan lofts that sold since November 1 and that previously sold in

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Mr. Silver does NY real estate / NY Magazine basks in the glow

538 moved from 312 to 718 [update below]Talk about a perfect marriage: the stat guru with star power, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight fame, developed a piece for the will-scream-for-attention, NY Magazine, ranking 50 "top" NYC neighborhoods. Hilarity (and links) ensues!

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update alert / now 27 pairs of paired Manhattan loft resales, 2007 + recently

woo-hooThat collection of paired resales of Manhattan lofts is now 27, and that March 5 data dump (data dump: 27 Manhattan lofts sold in 2007 + recently) has been updated (again), for all you who seem to have bookmarked that

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Sunday diversion / baseball (Babe Ruth) and the Supreme Court (John Paul Stevens)

Yankee home opener = Tuesday at 1:05The always interesting Rob Neyer  had a Friday link to a Northwestern University magazine piece about, of all things, retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens as a life-long Cubs fan, with this question,

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the case of the curious “typo” / 41 Rushmore buyers get to rescind

Real Deal trumps NY Times [with April 16 update, below]The fascinating story of 41 in-contract buyers at The Rushmore being granted the right to rescind their contracts is not a Manhattan loft story, but it is a Manhattan new developments

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closing at 40 West 15 St relieves ALL shareholders

moving one building eastThe "2,200 sq ft" Manhattan loft #5A at 40 West 15 Street sold on March 25 at $1.8mm, making it the most recent (but not the most interesting) sale in this 6-story building, and making this the

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42 West 15 St closes where it couldn't in 2008

weird but trueThe most intriguing thing about the recent closing of the Manhattan loft on the 2nd floor at 42 West 15 Street is not that the March 15 clearing price of $1.675mm was $24,000 off of where it previously

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both 245 + 252 Seventh Avenue sell under $1,000/ft, for different reasons

Schwarzenegger + DeVito style ‘twins’Two Manhattan lofts across Seventh Avenue from each other along West 24 Street closed on March 23. Both are said to be just over 2,250 sq ft, neither has much of a view, both cleared just

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how did lofts do last quarter compared to overall market?

a third set of impressions of the First QuarterHaving sniped at the media narrative (April 2, first impression of First Quarter reports) and then having psycho-analyzed the Big Firm reporting styles (April 5, second impression of First Quarter reports) it

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