Month: June 2010

making (no) sense of The Market / what did The Elf buy at 345 West 13 Street?

paging David ByrneIn this episode, Manhattan Loft Guy starts with a celebrity purchase, moans about transactions without brokers, touches on how difficult it can be to compare same-building loft sales, and finally (nearly?) goes bonkers on why ACRIS data sometimes

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suing, shaming + publicizing your problems / a fraught cost-benefit analysis

rocks + hard placesIf I hadn’t gotten distracted on Tuesday by other recent news and expanded a draft post into the politics, wisdom or inanity of airing dirty linen about your coop or condo, I would have focused on the

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ups and downs at One York / recent sale off 7% since 2008

(a) lower, higher, then lower, all at very high levelsThe blogosphere just loves a $24 million dollar Manhattan loft, so the news that the Penthouse at One York Street closed last week for $23,689,586 made quite a splash on Curbed

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the politics, wisdom or inanity of airing dirty linen about your coop or condo

something in the water??I had intended this morning to do a post focused on one particular dispute between a condo developer and unit owners in Brooklyn, but then I saw an article in today’s NY Times airing angry emails between

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