year in review, Part OneI can’t promise that there will be a Manhattan Loft Guy Year In Review, Part Two (or 3 …), but the recent sale of the ground floor loft at 7 Worth Street fits nicely in the…
Month: December 2010
residential Manhattan square feet called “elusive” by NY Times, “fraudulent” by loft buyers at 1200 Broadway
haven’t we been here before? recently??The big real estate story is Sunday’s New York Times was The Elusive Measure Known as the Square Foot, by Marc Santora, which everyone is linking to this morning (Curbed, The Real Deal, Brownstoner, True…
Manhattan Loft Guy, 1
pardon me for boastingI am reliably informed that my December 14, Wall Street Journal oversells a Manhattan 4 bedroom “boom”, was forwarded to an editor at the Wall Street Journal, resulting in the Corrections & Amplifications item posted Saturday on…
Tagged with: 4 Bedrooms, Kids, Large Apartments, New Development, School, Suburbs, Trend, Wall Street Journal
Quote Of The Day / Soho artists + traffic / Marcel Marceau edition
staying with artists in Soho, even silent onesI filed this one away a while back, discovered when I was searching the inter-tubes for information and commentary about the Soho artist-in-residence rules and impact … which is becoming something of a…
real world impact of Soho artist-in-residence rules and Certificate of Occupancy enforcement, as the dialogue continues
their words, not mineThe provocative comments to the provocative Manhattan Loft Guy post about a provocative New York Times article continue, with the latest reader contribution a week ago. I don’t have any idea how many readers click through to…
Tagged with: Air, Artist, Certificate Of Occupancy, Certification, Comments, Cultural Affairs, Department Of Buildings, Questions, Renters, Soho
250 Mercer Street small loft flies off shelf, above ask, above $1,000/ft
New York Post recent Manhattan residential sale is, in fact, recent, and interestingSometimes the residential sales that appear in the newspapers (New York Post on Thursdays, New York Times on Sundays) are more or less current; sometimes they are much…
not news, data: Manhattan coops outnumber condos 3:1, but rentals outnumber both 3:1
pinning a Manhattan real estate data point: distribution of housing in ManhattanThat Housing and Vacancy Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau I relied upon yesterday is the source for some simple data nuggets that answer these oft-asked questions: how much…
Wall Street Journal oversells a Manhattan 4 bedroom “boom”
[UPDATE: note the way The Journal acknowledged the error and then edited to make the article even less coherent: December 19, Manhattan Loft Guy, 1 – Wall Street Journal, 0, as WSJ posts 4 bedroom correction] (mis) adventures in…
Tagged with: 4 Bedrooms, Curbed, Kids, Large Apartments, Lefkowitz, New Development, Ny Times, Toy, Trend, Wall Street Journal
213 West 23 Street loft takes what the market gives (28% off original ask)
when is a quick sale not a quick sale?To look at the recent marketing history, the Manhattan loft #5N at 213 West 23 Street was a pretty quick sale: to market September 8 at $3.695mm, contract by November 2, sold…
Tagged with: 2005, 2008, Disappointed Seller, Discount, Hiatus, Mcburney, Off The Market, Poster Child, West 23
117 West 17 Street loft flies off the shelf, but was the terrace free?
how quick is Q-U-I-C-K?I generally tell people that the ballpark timing numbers are that it often takes 60 days from contract to closing in a Manhattan condominium, 90 days in a coop, though there are always some that take longer…
Tagged with: Brooks Van Horne, Comps, Modesty, Neighbor, Outdoor Space, Renovation, Secret, Terrace, West 17
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