oh joyful and happy hour!Manhattan Loft Guy has to get out (on the web) more, especially with finds like this. I can’t even remember where I started, but clicking from one ‘interesting’ post, to another ‘interesting’ blog, to another ‘interesting’…
Month: May 2010
if at first … 24 East 22 Street closes after trying again, and again
a long strange tripThis is one of those posts that changed 180 degrees in a long gestation. It had a simple starting point (a Manhattan loft sold that had been marketed in 2006), with an extended series of didn’t sell…
required reading: gentrification, preservation and King Canute
whose neighborhood is it anyway?Fascinating (short!) piece in next month’s Atlantic Monthly, available on-line, Gentrification And Its Discontents, in which Benjamin Schwartz not so much reviews but exposes two recent books on Manhattan, Sharon Zukin’s Naked City and Michael Sorkin’s…
are shareholders aware when they reduce value?
anecdotes illustrate, MLG goes on and onInteresting post last week by the ever-thoughtful proprietor of True Gotham, Market Heats Up? and Your Building’s No Pet Policy May Be Costing You a Fortune. I am most interested in the second part of…
Tagged with: Coms, Coop Boards, Down Payment, Garden Outdoor Space, Neighbors, Open Houses, Pets, Rules, Terrace, True Gotham
www is big / RE blogosphere is small
bummer (no irony … sadness)I was catching up on my Matrix reading this afternoon, when I saw The Miller’s post about Joe Ferrara of Sellsius being in ICU with a malignant brain tumor and the effort by Jay Thompson (the…
price right, sell quick at Ruggles House, 112 East 19 Street
simple rule (hard to apply?)You will be excused if you failed to notice that the Manhattan loft #4R at 112 East 19 Street had been on the market, as it was available for 21 days before finding a buyer on…
29 East 22 Street loft closes off 40%
(from first ask, to last gasp)When the Manhattan loft #5N at 29 East 22 Street came to market in May 2008 at $2.75mm, they did not realize that The Peak was behind them. Painful hindsight 2 years later told them…
flipping (down) at One York / is this the first resale?
the first resale a fire sale?Looks to me as thoughthe Manhattan loft #4F at 1 York Street (imaginatively known as One York) has been the first to flip, and it was not a happy Ozzie Smith flip. These April 9…
Saturday diversion / is Chelsea Mercantile contract newsworthy?
tomorrow must be a slow news day(Not for Manhattan Loft Guy; for the NY Times.) If it is "news" to Liz Harris of the NY Times (is she the new Josh Barbanel??), I guess it qualifies for at least a…
Tagged with: Amenities, Comps, Contract, Mercantile, Neighbor, Ny Times, Seventh, Wall Street Journal
contract litigation goes against greedy sellers
buyer lost job, then mortgage, then deal (not baby, or case)These things don’t often get litigated, probably because there is not enough money involved to justify the fees and because people (generally) do the right thing. But a Manhattan coop…
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