2 things dear to my heartI missed this piece in yesterday’s NY Times (h/t The Real Deal): Lower East Side Has Less to Offer Jesuits Who Teach the Poor. Manhattan Loft Guy is Jesuit educated, I am in close contact…
Year: 2010
Jesuits adapt to Lower East Side gentrification by moving; will lofts follow?
Tagged with: Bronx, Forsyth, Gentrification, Jesuits, Lower East Side, Mott Haven, School, Soho, Tribeca
20-26 N. Moore loft clears at $1,286/ft with no frills
listing associated with "no listing associated" saleStreetEasy has the news that the Manhattan loft #8W at 20-26 N. Moore Street closed on August 2 at $3.6mm, but no other news about the sale ("no listing associated with this sale"). Which…
171 Duane Street loft closes at 12% premium, contract in 3 weeks
"every once in a while …", indeedEvery once in a while, a listing description not only does justice to the loft listed but to potential buyers, giving an appropriately enthusiastic description of the loft instead of merely babbling. The Manhattan…
Tagged with: Architect, Bidding War, Comps, Duane, Inefficient Market, Longandnarrow, Neighbor, Renovation, Velocity
trading spaces / (lots of) loft on West 19 Street for (lots of) light + terrace on Gramercy Park
one of those 8 million storiesI mentally filed away an Observer piece from July 30 some time ago for a future post. The Observer observed because it involves a celebrity. Voyeur that I am, Manhattan Loft Guy is interested because…
negotiation science / The Anchoring Effect
indeed, "we" are not so smartInteresting post from an interesting blog that I have been mulling over this past week, as it had great personal relevance this week (story below) and has a real estate nexus. The post is Anchoring…
getting emotional (litigious!) over commission on $44 million Manhattan townhouse
it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad worldThe Manhattan residential real estate business is such a wonderful spectator sport because it has everything: big numbers! huge egos! drama queens (and drama kings, and drama knaves)! (Not to mention: spectacular lofts, apartments…
Tagged with: Bhs, Brown Harris, Commission, Contract Terms, Expiration, Litigation, Mansion, Rebny, Townhouse, Wall Street Journal
real estate blogosphere just got smaller
that did not take longBack only on May 14, I posted sad news about a giant in a small world, www is big / RE blogosphere is small. That giant, Joe Ferrara, would be a giant in most worlds, and…
another celebrity who hates Tribeca
cognitive dissonance is in the eye of the beholderOK, OK, I don’t know that Mike Love of the Beach Boys really hates Tribeca, but this is supposed to be a Manhattan loft blog, so I need a hook. I do…
50 Walker Street loft sells with huge deck, NY Observer observes
how to value the deck??I am going to have to struggle some other time with applying The Miller’s approach to valuing outdoor space to this beautiful Manhattan loft #6B at 50 Walker Street that sold on July 13 for an…
Tek Nickel Difew Culties
(or: Technical Difficulties)If you tried to access Manhattan Loft Guy late Friday or into Saturday, you probably got the same message I got, more or less this: website not found; if you are sure you have typed the URL correctly,…
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