Upgrade Week continues…Ah, the perils of parsing broker babble …. The marketing campaign for the recently sold “2,200 sq ft” Manhattan loft #11N at 126 West 22 Street (Chelsea Flats) is full of upgrade language, some more specific than others,…
Month: August 2012
indispensable source tracks commercial upgrades on Murray Street
ch … ch … ch … changes (slowly, perhaps surely)The go-to guy for hyper-local street level news in Tribeca, the intrepid Tribeca Citizen, this week has hit a few instances of the changing storefronts on Murray Street in southeast Tribeca.…
49 East 21 Street loft beats near-Peak value, breaks building record
was it the upgraded counter, Mars?Sometimes the key to a very enthusiastic bit of broker babble is what is not there. In the case of the “1,375 sq ft” Manhattan loft #9A at 49 East 21 Street that just sold…
Tagged with: Above Ask, Bidding War, Comps, East 21, Master List, Neighbor, Premium, Renovation, Upgrade
“perfection” goes for $1,025/ft in 252 West 30 Street loft
to catch a bargain, there must be a catchIn our last installment, the August 8, ‘architecturally designed’ loft with no view, little light at 114 West 27 Street sells at $799/ft (sue me: I’ve been busy), we found a bargain…
Tagged with: Discount, Finishes, Layout, Lincoln Tunnel, Location, Neighbor, Renovation, Square, West 30, Windows
'architecturally designed' loft with no view, little light at 114 West 27 Street sells at $799/ft
the only way to get a bargainThere are over 300 loft resales in 2012 on my Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008, the vast majority of which have $/ft calculations, and only 19 of those lofts sold…
130 Fulton Street loft sells 4% over 2007, but there’s a really big catch
not a market-driven increase, even if a market priceReaders who remember my September 27, 2011, is the Manhattan loft market back to (up to) 2007? 61 repeat sales say “probably”, “a bit” (one of my favorite posts of 2011), will…
720 Greenwich Street loft illustrates my ballpark Peak-to-Now
this is what “about 10%” looks likeYou don’t have to be a regular reader of Manhattan Loft Guy to know that The Peak prices in the overall Manhattan residential real estate market were recorded in the First Quarter of 2008,…
Tagged with: Ballpark, Broker Babble, Floor Plan, Greenwich, Layout, Peak, Pictures, River, Views, West 17
a diversion of a VERY different kind: imagine a city in which no one moves for a minute
I had no idea this was an annual eventClear your mind and expectations, as this is not a typical Manhattan Loft Guy diversion. On August 1, at 5 PM, the city of Warsaw comes to a stop for 60 seconds…
curiously modest pricing of no-expense-spared renovated loft at 66 Leonard Street nets (predictably?) modest price
if they were trying to provoke a war, they missedI have to wonder if the sellers of the “1,780 sq ft” Manhattan loft #12D at 66 Leonard Street (the Textile Building) thought they were going to provoke a bidding war,…
Tagged with: Competition, Comps, Floor Plan, Leonard, Neighbor, Peak, Proper Names, Renovation, Textile
from the Department of Odd (But Round) Numbers: 3 lofts sell in July $5,000 above ask
small samples can be fun, if limitedAnyone who has checked out my Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008 at all recently is aware that I have let it get woefully out of date. But I am working…
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