Year: 2011

a Tuesday diversion / vintage Manhattan photos 1941, 1942

driving me crazy, and you?Don’t click here if you don’t have a few minutes, because you will be late to your next appointment or call. It is a collection of 63 color photographs taken by a visiting businessman, nearly all

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victim of 2009 chill, 395 Broadway loft sells quickly at premium

timing = everything. price tooI am not sure there was anything the sellers of the Manhattan loft #10C at 395 Broadway could have done to get a sale back in the day, but I am sure the sellers did what

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moving to Atalanta loft from WAY uptown

distance is not the only measureI could play around a bit about the price at which the Manhattan loft #12C at 25 N. Moore Street (the 2001 conversion-with-much-punching-out-of-windows Atalanta) sold for in a private transaction on May 26 ($2.5mm for

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why did Chelsea Mercantile loft sell within 3% of The Peak?

Field of Dreams pricing, maybeWhen the Manhattan loft #15-I at 252 Seventh Avenue in the Manhattan Loft Guy fave Chelsea Mercantile sold on June 9 at $3.65mm it wasn’t a man-bites-dog story like my July 5, man bites dog! 49

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Lion's Head loft sale hits the number at 26% over 2006

patience can be over-rated, PrudenceSometimes The Market provides data that show Manhattan loft longitudinal trends in just a few data points. Note that the only meaningful difference between the sales histories of two lofts that sold recently at the Lion’s

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man bites dog! 49 East 21 Street loft sells 3.6% above Peak

fresh filing, mature deedIt seems like only yesterday that Manhattan Loft Guy used “dog bites man” to indicate that a resale 6% off from the prior 2007 sale was not “news”, but it was really the day before yesterday (dog

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“that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states …”

they were writing for the agesI don’t mean to go all Bachmann on ya, but if I ever learned that some signers of the Declaration of Independence signed on and after August 2, 1776, I had forgotten that. Per the

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dog bites man + 90 Franklin Street loft sells off only 6% since 2007

weren’t we just here?If it seems like only yesterday that Manhattan Loft Guy was at the 2000 Tribeca condo loft conversion Franklin Tower, 90 Franklin Street, you need to slow down. It was actually way back on June 24 that

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imagine getting creamed on a $1,400/ft resale (46 White Street loft seller did)

does it make a difference if you know you will?At first glance, you’d think the seller of the “2,881 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the 3rd floor at 46 White Street (Woods Mercantile Building) would be thrilled selling on June

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one Downtown by Starck loft pulls head above water, up 9% since 2006, another is down 4% since 2007

it gets complicated When the Manhattan mini-loft #2828 at 15 Broad Street in the uber-conversion modestly known as Downtown By Philippe Starck sold on May for $615,566, that seller realized a (gross) gain of $50,438 over the purchase from the

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