Year: 2011

is renter protection the thorniest (and separable) piece of the Soho artist in residence puzzle?

[update: I added some more to the mix with my March 7, it is impossible to prove that the Soho artist in residence regulations are a resale problem unless ‘victims’ come forward] once more into the breachIt has been quite

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giant 43% gain since 2004 for giant Jensen Lewis loft marketed aggressively at 161 West 15 Street

celebrity buyer alert! but there’s all sorts of other stuff going on…When the Manhattan loft #6FG at 161 West 15 Street (the Jensen Lewis building) closed at $3.15mm on January 31 it made the papers because of the identity of

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giant 43% gain since 2004 for giant Jensen Lewis loft marketed aggressively at 161 West 15 Street

celebrity buyer alert! but there’s all sorts of other stuff going on…When the Manhattan loft #6FG at 161 West 15 Street (the Jensen Lewis building) closed at $3.15mm on January 31 it made the papers because of the identity of

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modest 7.6% gain since 2006 for modest Jensen Lewis loft marketed modestly at 161 West 15 Street

[UPDATE 3.4.11: as you will see in today’s post (giant 43% gain since 2004 for giant Jensen Lewis loft marketed aggressively at 161 West 15 Street) I realize I way over-used the "modest" word in this post, as the #3D

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modest 7.6% gain since 2006 for modest Jensen Lewis loft marketed modestly at 161 West 15 Street

[UPDATE 3.4.11: as you will see in today’s post (giant 43% gain since 2004 for giant Jensen Lewis loft marketed aggressively at 161 West 15 Street) I realize I way over-used the "modest" word in this post, as the #3D

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since that $458/ft loft sale at 144 West 27 Street …

3 bigger (normal?) deals In case anyone thought that this morning’s launch of an occasional new feature (OYAToMLG a new occasional feature / Shakespeare at 144 West 27 Street loft edition) means that you won’t get a new bit of

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OYAToMLG a new (occasional) feature / Shakespeare at 144 West 27 Street loft edition

One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft GuyAbout some sellers who sold at half their original asking price: loving a loft not wisely but too well / 144 West 27 St closes at 51% of first ask, in which I

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true artist loft sells at 140 Grand Street at $938/ft, but that's only half the story

the other half begins just over a mile northThe sale of the Manhattan loft #3WF at 140 Grand Street on February 3 caught my eye this morning for a bunch of reasons. First, it is the latest news (deed was

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O’Neill loft seller finally gives up, yet sells above ask at 655 Sixth Avenue

bizarre is in the eye of the beholderI don’t think that the most unusual thing about the sale of the Manhattan loft #2M at 655 Sixth Avenue (The O’Neill Building) is the synchronicity in that it sold on February 17

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Greene Street block as a lab for … global economic development??

yupI don’t want to leave the impression that I regularly peruse economics blogs about global development issues, but I did come across this February 22 small blog post by an econ prof with NYU’s Development Research Institute that focused on

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