Year: 2012

massive combined loft sells $65,000 above ask at 53 N. Moore Street

“ridiculous potential”, as in "not yet realized"The strangest thing about the recent sale above ask of the “4,040 sq ft” Manhattan loft combination #2DE at 53 N. Moore Street is not that above-ask thing; no, the strangest thing about this

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huge 205 West 19 Street loft sells at $200,000/window, but why?

how much per book, I wonderBy any measure, the marketing campaign for the “3,500 sq ft” Manhattan loft #10F at 205 West 19 Street was a success. A full price contract in 4 weeks at $1,143/ft ($4mm) is the main

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resale at The Cammeyer is up 5% over 2008, but at a cost

a long time flippingThe Manhattan residential loft conversion at 650 Sixth Avenue (on the Flatiron side of the old Ladies Mile) has been such a bumpy condominium that the sponsor is still selling units, 4 ½ years after the first

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neighbor bails out neighbor at 52 West 22 Street in first resale at Paper Factory lofts

a good deed, rewardedIt has been a while since I looked at the neighbor-on-neighbor action involved when kinda one wants to sell and another sorta wants to buy. In today’s episode, the owner of the “1,048 sq ft” Manhattan loft

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back to 99 Reade Street to see what the low ceilings on 5th floor support

one man’s ceiling is another man’s floorI had no idea when I hit the recent resale of a 5th floor low-ceilinged loft at 99 Reade Street (September 21, flip city: 99 Reade Street loft sold in 2011 sells again, up

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27 Howard Street sells above ask with (probably) the best low-floor view in Soho?

all because of Crosby StreetHaving looked this week at a one floor difference in height that did not matter (much) in Flatiron (September 27, height makes a small difference as Altair 20 lofts sell at 15 West 20 Street), a

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height makes a small difference as Altair 20 lofts sell at 15 West 20 Street

expectations are met (mine, anyway)The 2007 new development to residential living known as Altair 20 at 15 West 20 Street (a sibling to Altair 18 at 32 West 18 Street) faces a taller building across 20th Street, so you would

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Wall Street Journal jumps gun on quarterly market report, flogs Soho loft sale you know about

brilliant journalismRegular readers of Manhattan Loft guy will suspect snark in that sub-head, but today, I got none. Josh Barbanel’s piece in today’s Journal, Manhattan Sales Continue to Climb, is brilliant journalism on two fronts. First, it scoops all the

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height matters for 51 Walker Street lofts, even 2 floors

if they are the right 2 floorsPerhaps it is Height Week on Manhattan Loft Guy … yesterday’s September 24, for 69 Murray Street loft, The Peak was then, and almost now, looked at different views, light and values from the

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for 69 Murray Street loft, The Peak was then, and almost now

off by a rounding errorThe “1,800 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the 8th floor at 69 Murray Street that sold in a very Peak-y sale on January 31, 2008 at $2.275mm just resold in the same condition at $2.25mm. That’s

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