Month: December 2011

over-optimistic loft seller at 124 West 24 Street still beats 2007 buy

if buy low, easier to sell high (d’oh!)The 20-unit Manhattan 2007 loft condominium conversion at 124 West 24 Street is an interesting laboratory for observing the behavior of rats buyers over time.  The most recent data point is the October

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old house guy takes a million dollar bath in new loft on Madison Square

real estate is a tough game, eh Bob?The end of the story through the sale of the Manhattan loft #20A at 15 East 26 Street (Fifteen Madison Square North) has been anticipated since one of the earliest television real estate

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Sunday diversion / Wonders. Never. Cease. / Manhattan Bridge edition

never!Definitely late to the party on this, but so was my source. Good thing that good things on the inter-tubes are eternal. This prize-winning art installation from a DUMBO festival is a 5 minute “light show” on the Manhattan Bridge,

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Wall Street Journal flogs north Tribeca for no apparent reason

too much time on their hands?Believe me, I get that one purpose of the media wing of the Manhattan Real Estate Industrial Complex is to create ‘news’ about little neighborhoods, in part to follow a narrative of up-and-coming. This Wall

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170 Mercer Street loft sells after 15 months, 15% off neighbor in 2005

starting from the same place, going in different directionsThe last two residential lofts to sell at 170 Mercer Street in the Manhattan Loft Guy range of $500,000 to $5,000,000 (see the Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008)

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primitive loft at 16 Crosby Street sells above ask under $900/ft

was it the (lack of) maintenance?The “2,700 sq ft” Manhattan loft #2F at 16 Crosby Street was available for only a short time, coming to market on July 15 at $2.35mm, going to contract by August 8, and closing on

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