Year: 2013

Manhattan Loft Guy readers are ahead of the Times about loft sale at 32 West 18 Street, by 7 months

though (just) behind the PostI am sometimes aghast, occasionally enthralled, and once in a while simply filled with wonder at the workings of the Real Estate Industrial Complex, Manhattan Media division. If you are an avid spectator of the Manhattan

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today in big sports news

of course the anticipation is risingWhat with the earliest reporting dates for pitches and catchers to baseball’s spring training sites as early as February 11. (Full schedule here.) Only the Cubbies and the Rockies have the earliest dates, with most

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Tribeca and Soho top the rankings in median price by neighborhood, of course

top line numbers are so … top lineThe graph associated with this Property Shark report about median prices for coops, condos and 1- or 2-family homes by New York City neighborhood, with 2012 v. 2011 and 2012 v. 2008 data,

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Village project lofts at 250 Mercer Street sell at $925/ft with too many walls

did I miss the photo opportunity?The surviving listing on StreetEasy for the “1,500 sq ft” Manhattan lofts #C514 and #C515 at 250 Mercer Street promises “more info to follow shortly… [and] pix next week”, but that was from 14 months

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prime Soho loft needs imagination, but only $1,091/ft to buy

3 exposures helpA numbers guy would just focus on the price at which the “2,200 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the 3rd floor at 345 West Broadway sold at year end, but an aesthete like this Manhattan Loft Guy is

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elevator does not go to top floor at 258 Broadway, penthouse loft sells anyway (eventually, eventually)

 how do you comp a one-flight-up penthouse?There are penthouses, and then there are penthouses. My understanding is that the term originally referred to a residential unit built on the roof, usually having direct (private) access to at least part of

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funny prices of 101 Warren Street resale are not so ha-ha

The Market will correct a too high priceAfter yesterday’s post about a too deep price discount being corrected by The Market, bless her heart (January 28, if robust, The Market will fix a too-low price (at least, it did, at

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if robust, The Market will fix a too-low price (at least, it did, at 124 West 24 Street)

follow the bouncing ballThe seller of the “1,097 sq ft” Manhattan loft #5A at 124 West 24 Street was motivated, and successful. He brought the 2007 era newly converted loft to market on August 23, found a buyer who signed

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another pictorial diversion is probably bigger than you can imagine

a Manhattan Loft Guy diverting trend continuesThis makes the fourth pictorial diversion in the new year on this blog. I started the year with a collection of very many very diverting photos of Manhattan lofts (January 1, some diverting loft

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another picture of the trough, as 92 Chambers Street loft sells up 37% over 2009

can’t explain the 2007, howeverI am going to try not to get too distracted by the new development sale in 2007 of the “1,353 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the 2nd floor at 92 Chambers Street, as I don’t know

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