even if it was 5 years agoTo be fair to the Wall Street Journal, yesterday’s photo feature about a "young architect" who moved from "a dramatic home: a 1,900-square-foot Tribeca loft with prismatic glass sliding doors that could open to…
Year: 2010
low-life property manager INDICTED
13 properties, $2.1mm … so farWay back on January 30 I commented on Richard Bassik, a downtown property manager who was accused of stealing $2mm from buildings he managed and was featured in a NY Daily News article from January…
Tagged with: Condo Board, Coop Board, Da, Daily News, Fraud, Indictment, Insurance, Managing Agent, Theft
quick hit: WSJ finds Manhattan real estate market “healing” in Second Quarter
Barbanel weighs inMy post this morning (for real: Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out) chewed on (and chewed over) the NY Times article today by Vivia Toy about the major firms’ reports on coop and condo sales…
Tagged with: Corcoran, Days On Market, Halstead, Median Price, Miller, Miller Samuel, Quarterly Report, Streeteasy, Trends, Volume
for real: Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out
that didn’t take longWhen I blogged this week about actual research done by the Wall Street Journal from city data about coop and condo sales in Manhattan (June 28, first Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out), I…
Tagged with: Corcoran, Days On Market, Halstead, Median Price, Miller, Miller Samuel, Quarterly Report, Streeteasy, Trends, Volume
Chelsea House kinda sorta holds its own, reveals Truths in The Market
more or lessThe Manhattan "loft" #8D at 130 West 19 Street, Chelsea House, closed on June 18 at $1.51mm, down 6% from its last clearing price three years ago. If you are familiar with my post comparing lofts that sold…
Tagged with: 2006, 2007, 2009, Chelsea House, Competition, Comps, Neighbor, New Development, Nuclear Winter, West 19
The Miller on absorption of Manhattan coops and condos
hint: it is worse as you go upOne of the nice things about the blogoshere is that it provides a forum for dialogue, even (especlally) with oneself. Here’s an article last week from the Wall Street Journal analyzing the "absorption…
the very first Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out
ahead of The Times, with what, exactly?As we are counting down to the last days of the Second Quarter, the number crunchers at Miller Samuel, Terra, Corcoran and elsewhere are in their counting houses, counting up their sales. Traditionally, the…
Tagged with: 2009, Ny Times, Quarterly Report, Second Quarter, Transactions, Volume, Wall Street, Wsj
loft law extension / what's the big deal? UPDATED w maps
passed!Of course I have been following the reports over the last week about the "extension" bill just passed (and to-be-immediately-amended) New York State Loft Law. But it has been very difficult to understand what is has really been at stake…
65 West 13 Street “sale” is not a “sale”
less here than meets the eyeYou will not find the recent "sale" of the Manhattan loft 65 West 13 Street #9C in the Master List of Manhattan loft sales since November 2008 because I refuse to believe that it is…
sale at 97 Crosby Street is a Big Deal for NY Times (for wrong reason)
Old Grey Lady shoots for hip, missesDid anyone else find this piece in the Big Deal feature of Sunday’s real estate section of the NY Times weird? In Rachel Comey Buys SoHo Loft, reporter Liz Harris emphasizes her lack of…
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