the limits of a (lovely) form Last week it was the problems caused by the elevator placement in a Manhattan loft with a classic Long-and-Narrow shape (September 13, 77 White Street loft lacks “bedrooms” because elevator is in the wrong…
Month: September 2013
1 Bond Street loft goes over $1,500/ft for 3 windows
Tagged with: Bond, Broker Babble, Columns, Kitchen, Layout, Patient, Renovation, View, West Broadway, Windows
diversion about nomenclature in a different sport during BASEBALL season (sorry)
words have meaning, no? Thoughtful piece that I missed last week by the thoughtful guy who has the impossible job of being ombudsman for ESPN, So what if ESPN refused to use the R-word? If you’re already familiar with…
77 White Street loft lacks “bedrooms” because elevator is in the wrong place
sold for many dollars, nonetheless Yesterday, it was dark bedrooms being switched (September 12, flipping the dark bedrooms earns 100 Hudson Street loft 20% premium over (near) Peak); today it is a funky floor plan for a Long-and-Narrow Tribeca…
Tagged with: Comps, Cortlandt Alley, Elevator, Layout, Light, Neighbor, Renovation, Second Floor, Views, White
flipping the dark bedrooms earns 100 Hudson Street loft 20% premium over (near) Peak
who gets the light? The “1,025 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3A at 100 Hudson Street that just sold for $1.535mm with some “customized elements” looks a lot like the loft when it sold in June 2008 for $1.283mm with…
Tagged with: 2008, Bedroom, Broker Babble, Comps, Hudson, Layout, Neighbor, Renovation, View, Windows
this day comes again, mournfully as always
why does it always catch me by surprise (and by the throat)? Turns out that I am a broken record. In thinking about posting today I was going to start something like “As recently as this past weekend, I…
Tagged with: Memorial, Names, National Catholic Reporter, September 11, Tribute In Light, World Trade Center
133 West 28 Street loft sale shows the squeeze in 2-bedroom buyers
an enthusiastic result I am as much a fan of broker babble as the next guy (or Guy) and I appreciate enthusiastic attempts to make linguistic lemonade out of limited assets. The babble for the recently sold and hotly…
Sunday diversion is spiritual but from an exceedingly political (and contentious) source
making strange bedfellows Skip this post if you get antsy when someone talks about Spirituality (as in “that weird stuff is not for me”) or if reading anything on an oh so lefty politics forum like the (infamous) Daily…
TYAToMLG: a great counter counts summer contracts + listings
old market trends never really get old On Thursday I used The Miller’s new way of cutting the 20-year Manhattan residential real estate market into 8 eras in service of a post about a particular Tribeca loft with a…
funky loft at 55 White Street with funky history sells quickly in misleading fashion
not all of Tribeca is in a frenzy I am not saying that the full recent listing history of the “2,221 sq ft” triplex Manhattan loft #1C at 55 White Street is intentionally misleading, but the explicit part of…
Tagged with: Ceilings, Fight Or Flight, Gray, Kitchen, Light, New York Times, Nyc Architecture, Triplex, White, Windows
90 Franklin Street loft history more like a moving picture than a market snapshot
1 loft, 13 years of activity and inactivity If you wanted a Big Picture review of the overall Manhattan residential real estate market over a bunch of market cycles, you’d do well to play with The Miller’s latest 3…
Tagged with: Bubble, Comps, Franklin, Franklin Tower, Layout, Miller, Neighbor, New Development, Taxonomy, View
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