handwritten facsimile or plain text; your choiceA quick note and holiday link-a-pallooza before heading out to the ‘burbs for family grilling and sitting by the pool. I added the last bullet point below to link to last year’s post, form…
Year: 2012
100% reno + 24k gold = 27% over 2008 for 16 Hudson Street loft
over the top with some interesting limitations The broker babble for the “1,550 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4B at 16 Hudson Street is just one step shy of babble-porn, with the claim of that it was “100% renovated” and a…
Tagged with: 2008, Broker Babble, Chrysler, Gold, Hudson, Met Life, One Bed Wonder, Peak, Renovation, View
Sunday driving: down memory lane for October 2008 predictions about New York real estate
not quite all of the usual suspectsKeeping up the lighter weekend fare, while staying away from the bread and butter of closed Manhattan loft sales for another post, I came across a piece from the New York Daily News with…
Tagged with: 2008, Cheap Shot, Diversion, Lehman, Nuclear Winter, Ny Daily News, Peak, Predictions, Trump
bromancing the restaurateur: an homage to Danny Meyer
if not The Man Who Made (modern) Madison Square, at least The Man Who PushedI’ve been sitting on a “Living Around” feature about Madison Square and environs from the Sunday New York Times Real Estate section nearly two months, A…
$1,500/ft for 7 Bond Street loft with 4 windows, no bedrooms
The Bond Street effect in actionThe problem for the "1,100 sq ft" Manhattan loft #2D at 7 Bond Street is obvious from the floor plan, and only slightly less obvious from the photos: the four great big windows at the…
Tagged with: Bond, Broker Babble, Ceiling, Comps, Kitchen, Layout, Neighbor, Office, Renovation, Windows
129 West 22 Street loft sells at $947/ft as more classic than mint-y, but you have to sleep inside
dressed up by loft lovers, for loft lovers The longer I look at the large format photos of the “1,431 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4B at 129 West 22 Street that recently sold at $1.355mm, the more I agree with…
how to make sense of 475 Broadway loft sale, at $1,280/ft or $1,608/ft??
caution: rant is comingYou don’t need to know how big a Manhattan loft is to put a sale in the context of sales in the same building (assuming same footprints, of course), but it is very difficult to do a…
Tagged with: broadway, Condo Declaration, Jospeh Pell Lombardi, Offering Plan, Rant, Rebny, Square Feet, Standards
loft at 245 Seventh Avenue sells at $1,215/ft with very strange wall
a post for floor plan fetishists onlyOf course I will get to the financial and comparative details, but the first thing I looked at for the “2,258 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4B at 245 Seventh Avenue that just sold for…
Tagged with: Chef, Chelsea Mercantile, Closets, Comps, Kitchen, Layout, Neighbor, Renovation, Seventh, Walls
a troubling line potential sellers hear from agents all the time
having nothing to do with pajamas (really)The Real Deal has a puff piece in the June issue that was featured on their web page last week, Doing deals in pajamas, that has a dog-bites-man ‘news’ quality about it that is…
Tagged with: Agency, Cobrokering, Commission, Conflict Of Interest, Disclosure, Fiduciary, Incentives, Rebny, Sales Fee, The Real Deal
2nd floor loft at 9 West 20 Street beats well-dressed 5th floor loft from 2010
or, is the broker babble too modest?It can be difficult to compare Manhattan lofts based on small photos and broker babble, but you’d think that listing descriptions and photos put a property in the best possible light. In the case…
Tagged with: 2007, Comps, Flatiron, Kitchen, Light, Longandnarrow, Neighbor, Peak, Renovation, West 20
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