Month: November 2010

bloody competition at one Manhattan loft building

tight smiles in the elevator?It has been a while since i have posted about active listings (even without identifying them). I suspect that it would be less than interesting to read many Manhattan Loft Guy posts that said, in essence,

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another loft in New York Times, another inexpensive renovation, with 400 shoes

more shores shoes in basement storage!Wasn’t it just the other day that I wondered whether the New York Times, in fact, disproportionately represented Manhattan lofts in living/design pieces, or whether I just happened to notice the instances in which it

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Non-Sequitor Of The Day from Observation of New York housing market panel

huh??The New York Observer ran a short (7 sentence) piece on November 4 about a panel discussion with New York residential real estate developers and a Bloomberg reporter, Henry Elghanayan ‘Frightened’ By Midterm Elections. There’s not much room in 7

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the happy (true!) story about that Pearline Soap loft sold at 20% “loss” as massive triplex assembled

not really a loss, but this gets complicatedThe fact that a deed was filed transferring the 2nd floor at 414 Washington Street (Pearline Soap) on October 14 for $3mm the same day the same LLC paid $1.6mm for the 1st

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that bento box loft in Noho also provides a Quote Of The Day

double duty is fittingOne owner of the newly renovated loft profiled in today’s New York Times warmed the Manhattan Loft Guy heart with this Quote Of The Day: “we usually turn that function off,” [she] said. “It makes most Americans

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small loft at 476 Broadway closes at $1,107/ft, in normal range

current, but not “news”The recent sale fo Manhattan loft #8M at 476 Broadway (October 20, at $1.44mm) probably falls into the dog-bites-man category, but we were just in this building last week to visit a pop-up contract (Oct 25, pop-up

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the square footage dilemma: REBNY “leads” by protecting brokers, not buyers

leadership? not so muchIt’s the day after Election Day* so you will read a lot about Leadership today all over the inter-tubes. But you won’t find any other “pundit” talking today about Leadership in the context of REBNY and one

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no listing, but VERY motivated buyer for O’Neill loft at 655 Sixth Avenue greases a move to Tribeca

indeed, a unique buyerSometimes there’s a story you can figure out about a Manhattan loft that sells without having been offered publicly through a real estate brokerage. And sometimes there’s a story you can figure out about an anomalous sale.

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