the mezz makes the man, er, loft One of the hoary things you hear Manhattan real estate boosters say is that real estate here is so valuable because “it’s an island, they are not making more of it”. Of…
Category: loft neighborhoods tribeca
5 years later, small loft at 261 Broadway sells (angels rejoice)
I spoke too soon yesterday One problem with doing daily blog posts about closed Manhattan loft sales is that one post can get eclipsed by another; what seems like an unusual specimen one day can diminish the next. If…
Tagged with: 2007, broadway, City Hall, City Hall Park, Comps, Condition, Neighbor, Nothing Special, Price Drops, Views
9 White Street penthouse loft created $2.5mm in value after 2010
how to increase value without increasing space I had a bit of an email conversation this week with a Manhattan Loft Guy reader about the “3,500 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the top of 9 White Street, which had…
Tagged with: Ceilings, Columns, Duplex, Longandnarrow, Outdoor Space, Penthouse, Renovation, Rooftop, Stairway, White
penthouse loft at 363 Greenwich finally sells, only 29% above 2004
The Market contains a multitude of data points One of the nice things about being with one of the largest residential real estate brokerages in Manhattan is that our listing system has some very rich past sales data about…
Tagged with: 1999, 2004, Duplex, Efficient, Greenwich, Outdoor Space, Penthouse, Renovation, Terrace, Zen
73 Worth Street loft goes a little above ask, a lot above 2010 (of course)
doing the Buy Low, Sell High thing I never tire of these stories: a Manhattan loft with a past sales history that says interesting things about past market conditions, or buyers/sellers who achieve the real estate ideal of Buy…
25 Murray Street loft slow walks through market, takes 7 months to deal at small discount
inefficiency is maddening The “1,850 sq ft” Manhattan loft #6E at 25 Murray Street (Tribeca Space) recently sold for $2.145mm, at a tiny discount to last ask, less than a 5% discount to the prior ask, and less than…
Tagged with: Broker Babble, Comps, Discount, Efficient, Inventory, Irony, Murray, Neighbor, Rational, Tribeca Space
ancient floor plan drives 43 Murray Street loft down to $864/ft
stairs don’t help Whenever I see a floor plan like that of the “1,400 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3A at 43 Murray Street on a bar block in southeast Tribeca, I assume the place has been lived in for…
took a while for architects to wake up to gut project loft at 39 Worth Street
why so long to get to small discount? The broker babble for the “2,000 sq ft” Manhattan loft #2W at 39 Worth Street in Tribeca’s business district is not subtle: AN ARCHITECT’S DREAM Bring your design team to this classic…
OYAToMLG talking about post-Peak and square floor plans at 161 Hudson Street
well, yesterday, in factIt has been quite a while since I’ve dipped into the archives for a One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy post, but we will be out of town for the week by the time this…
backstory to New York Times about buying a wrecked loft at 37 Walker Street
Manhattan Loft Guy readers (again) keeping ahead of the Times …Nice piece by Constance Rosenblum as the main story in the Real Estate section in today’s New York Times, Not Too Shabby, about Manhattan residential real estate buyers increasingly looking…
Tagged with: 1970s, Agency, Disclosure, Dual Agent, Duplex, Kitchen, Ny Times, Renovation, Walker, Wreck
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