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…
Year: 2013
masterpiece designed since 2009, 60 West 15 Street loft doubles in value
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
1 Bond Street loft goes over $1,500/ft for 3 windows
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…
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…
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