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366 Broadway loft sells up 10% over 2004 but flat to 2007

almost prize-winning seller wins by selling at almost his purchase priceSticking with that theme from last week of how is the Manhattan loft market niche doing compared to 2007?, the Manhattan loft #7B at 366 Broadway (the Collect Pond House)

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44 Laight Street, where another flipper scarfed most of the gain, but did he work for it?

we’ve seen this movie beforeIt is some news that the “4,021sq ft” Manhattan loft #4A at 44 Laight Street (Grabler Building) sold on August 17 at $4.06mm, give that it last sold in December 2006 at $3.75mm, as that post-2006

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speedy 155 Franklin Street loft sale shows neighbor's frostbite in 2009

a (changing) market in microcosmThe deed recording the August 22 sale of the “2,438 sq ft” Manhattan loft #2S at 155 Franklin Street was not filed until Wednesday, so this qualifies as late-breaking news in our world: keeping up with

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famous artist buys (another) loft at 173 Duane Street

if at first you don’t succeedFrom the buy side, you have Richard Serra and wife, who apparently have lived at Manhattan loft building 173 Duane Street since 1977 (the first year his name shows up on The Shark’s page for

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roof deck added at least $518,760 to penthouse loft at 16 Hudson Street

as penthouse week continues…Finally a penthouse loft sale with enough building comps to attempt to estimate the premium paid for private outdoor space! The Manhattan loft #6E at16 Hudson Street sold pretty quickly on August 31: came to market on

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why did 288 West Street lofts close with such a wide spread?

why would “gut” beat “restored”?There is a puzzle about the last two Manhattan loft sales at 288 West Street at the extreme northwest corner of Tribeca that might be one of those always-easy-when-you-know-the-answer puzzles. Two lofts that sound the same

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14 Jay Street penthouse loft sells in a small mystery, with numbers that are mysterious

details lacking, until you find themThe mystery of the August 30 deed at $2.3mm for the “penthouse” at 14 Jay Street is not that StreetEasy found “[n]o listing associated with this closing”, because it hardly takes a Holmes to connect

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was there a million dollar renovation at 195 Hudson Street?

I doubt that they (much) improved on state-of-the-artThe “3,227 sq ft” Manhattan loft #5B at 195 Hudson Street has had a rather … dynamic … pricing history, leading to an unanswerable conundrum for me: how much of the increase in

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did Bouley learn to clean up after himself on Duane Street?

or did the rental market improve on its own?One implication of an item from yesterday’s New York Daily News Best Places Voyeur is that restaurateur David Bouley has cleaned up his act; another may be that lawyers who use a

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when neighbors really compete, market can be quite efficient, as at 58 Walker Street

head-to-head and dollar-for-dollarUnlike the neighboring Cobblestone Lofts I hit on August 6 (28 Laight Street loft sale under-performs neighbor’s sale) that engaged in a serial competition for buyers, the two lofts that recently sold at 58 Walker Street directly competed.

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