paging Kenny Rogers Another way to frame the fight or flight question posed for disappointed sellers (in my November 15 post) is You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’emKnow when to walk away, know…
Year: 2010
129 West 20 Street hums country tune, times the market perfectly, kinda, sorta
Tagged with: 2000, Anchor Effect, Chelsea Quarter, Country Music, Gambler, Kenny Rogers, Nuclear Winter, Psychology, Resale, West 20
turning 2 “lofts” into 1 “apartment” at 303 Mercer, then selling for $996/ft
I’m not offended, reallySome people just prefer to live in Manhattan “apartments”, instead of “lofts”. I get that, but it is unusual to see one of those “apartment” people buy adjoining lofts (with 11 foot ceilings, large windows, wide-plank flooring,…
Tagged with: Apartment, Ceilings, Classic, Combination, Elevator, Flow, Greenwich Village, Mercer, Walkup, Windows
shredding the fabric: a building's culture is endangered when financial treason is discovered
long ago Manhattan Loft Guy promise, fulfilledWhen last I touched on the low-life property manager who cheated at least 19 buildings (including “high-end coops and condos” in Manhattan, at least a few of which I know to be lofts) out…
Tagged with: Bassik, Condo Board, Coop Board, Culture, District Attorney, Downtown Properties, Fraud, Ny Times, Social Fabric, Theft
pinning a data point: national residential real estate peak was July 2006
all real estate is, indeed, localQuick and dirty post just to establish a baseline …. I came across this Bloomberg news article last week about the national residential real estate market in which an aside caught my attention: National prices…
perfectly terrible storm hit sale of 77 Bleecker Street loft
opera fan or stage fan?Sometimes there is human drama in a dry set of Manhattan real estate purchase-and-sale data. It is difficult for me to look at a two-and-a-half year sequence culminating in the recent sale of the Manhattan loft…
Sunday diversion: Sullivan channels Posnanski about … movies?
… without once mentioning baseballI guess I should stop being surprised by the breadth of Andrew Sullivan’s musings about the world as-is and as-it-should-be. Perhaps he surprised for the last time me last week when he (one of my favorite…
loft at 8-10 Warren Street is first resale of 2008 new development, but is still smiling
against the trendYou might bet that resales would be challenging in an At Peak Manhattan condominium conversion of a real loft building, particularly if you recall the exercise I went through in my March 5 data dump: 27 Manhattan lofts…
114 Mercer Street loft sells at $848/ft with 4 windows, 3 mints, 2 dark BRs + 1 exposure the limits of the Long-and-Narrow form
The Manhattan loft 114 Mercer Street #2 is said to be “2,300 sq ft” with 14 foot ceilings, and to have been gut renovated with some especially chic details. It sits on a prime Soho block (between Spring and Prince),…
Tagged with: Bath Tub, Coop, Duane, Howard, Light, Longandnarrow, Mercerm Broadway, Renovation, Second Floor
a tale of 2 neighbors at 150 West 26 Street, with 1 hard bargain
‘tis a puzzlement Manhattan Loft Guy loves a puzzle, and a deed filed last Saturday provides one (not counting: they file deeds on Saturday??) … why did the Manhattan loft #901 at 150 West 26 Street sell on November 12…
Tagged with: 2001, Above Market, Combination, Extortion, Greenwich, Negotiation, Neighbor, Penthouse, Terrace, West 26
184 Franklin Street walk-up loft shows market down at least 17% from The Peak
it is nice when the data points behave themselvesThe Manhattan loft 184 Franklin Street #6 that sold on November 22 for $542,000 is one of those rare commodities: a Tribeca mini-loft. It interests me as a data point because it…
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