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Month: September 2013
diversion is more of a (small) rant about Manhattan real estate “penthouses”
creeping nomenclature is all too common It’s the weekend, but instead of the usual diversion having nothing to do with Manhattan lofts, I’d like to do a short riff on a pice in The Real Deal this week, When Is A…
50 West 29 Street build-out loft sale not as simple as it looks
here’s one I know something about The recent sale of the “1,400 sq ft “ Manhattan loft #13W at 50 West 29 Street looks pretty simple: to market on April 10 at $1.475mm, in contract by June 20, and sold…
Tagged with: 50 West 29 Street, Certificate Of Occupancy, Escrow, Negotiations, Primitive, Renovation, Views, West 29
28 Laight Street 1-day loft sale looks like a whisper listing
can’t be real, perhaps it is one of those We can agree, I assume, that the public record behind the recent sale of the “2,705 sq ft” Manhattan loft #2D at 28 Laight Street in the Cobblestone Lofts cannot reflect…
Tagged with: Cobblestone Lofts, Comps, Laight, Neighbor, New York Times, Parking, Public, Whisper Sale
room or light? Tribeca or Chelsea? 2 lofts sold above ask at $2.645 million have different charms
new space or old? I had ticketed two contemporaneous Manhattan loft sales back when there was a summer in New York; now is a good time to check them out. The “1,789 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the3rd floor of…
Tagged with: 130 West 19 Street, 2006, Layout, Light, Longandnarrow, New Development, Renovation, Thomas, West 19, Windows
Sunday diversion has to feature The Great Rivera
still baseball season, of course No need to get into a discussion of whether Mariano Rivera is ‘the greatest closer ever’ in Major League baseball (the 9th-inning [only] closer being a fairly recent development) but we can all agree that…
buyers with cold nerves sell 4 West 21 Street loft at 51% gain
… and the home of the brave Let’s take another spin at a wheel I mentioned on Wednesday (September 18, masterpiece designed since 2009, 60 West 15 Street loft doubles in value) about the favorable resale position of 2013 sellers…
adding wall for 3rd bedroom did NOT increase value of 49 East 21 Street loft by 36%
nor did time, or dimmers This is the kind of thing that drives Efficient Market fans to distraction and buyers to drink (or worse): the “1,461 sq ft” Manhattan loft #10C at 49 East 21 Street just sold at a…
masterpiece designed since 2009, 60 West 15 Street loft doubles in value
cashing out on meticulous + to the 9s Not every agent has the credibility in the business to be taken at face value when saying things like “Renovated to the nines” and “Come home to the extraordinary”, but the listing…
Tagged with: 2009, broadway, Broker Babble, Fear, Fortitude, Kitchen, Miller, Renovation, Trends, West 15
56 Warren Street loft renovation added more value than it cost
known unknowns abound I am not unusual in always being interested in the impact that renovation has on value; most people who try to follow a residential real estate niche share that interest. I flatter my niche, perhaps, in thinking…
Tagged with: 2007, Bathroom, Broker Babble, Comps, Gut, Neighbor, Primitive, Raw, Renovation, Warren
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