I think we have a winnerI hope that regular Manhattan Loft Guy readers realize that I appreciate the coverage of the Manhattan real estate business in The Real Deal; they often cover things other local media do not and seem…
Category: manhattan real estate business
nominee for dumbest 'analysis' by the media of a Manhattan real estate sale
Tagged with: Awards, Heritage, Malpractice, Real Estate Industrial Complex, Riverside, Roberts, The Real Deal
throwing a coop board interview can come with a high price
the Barbara Corcoran experienceThere is a fascinating AP interview with Barbara Corcoran on-line yesterday, which The Real Deal excerpts (badly) this morning. TRD picks out some nuggets, which started me in a different direction this morning in thinking about a…
TYAToMLG / the power (or wisdom) of a coop board rejecting a buyer because of price
Two Years Ago Today on Manhattan Loft GuyAbout the legal authority of a coop board to reject a purchase to ‘protect’ shareholders, and whether that makes any sense: power of a coop board to reject a deal as "too low"??…
can a condo board remove a member??
discrimination article, revisitedChristine Haughney’s March 7 Appraisal feature in the New York Times (East Side, West Side, Bias Claims Abound) made a big splash in the inter-tubes, with many comments about the merits (or lack thereof) in the claims by…
REBNY does good! flip tax problem resolved
my dues at work (yay team!)Regular Manhattan Loft Guy readers know that I have a somewhat … (shall we say) … conflicted perspective on our trade association, REBNY. Basically, I feel that residential agents (and especially consumers) are the poor…
Lion's Head loft foreclosure sale postscript: an unusual 4-letter word for b-u-y-e-r?
start with 3 letters: WTF??(No, I am not goin’ all Palin on ya; I’ve been using that locution for years.) This postscript to my January 22, Lion’s Head penthouse loft closes out of foreclosure (121 West 19 Street) with a…
residential Manhattan square feet called “elusive” by NY Times, “fraudulent” by loft buyers at 1200 Broadway
haven’t we been here before? recently??The big real estate story is Sunday’s New York Times was The Elusive Measure Known as the Square Foot, by Marc Santora, which everyone is linking to this morning (Curbed, The Real Deal, Brownstoner, True…
Manhattan Loft Guy, 1
pardon me for boastingI am reliably informed that my December 14, Wall Street Journal oversells a Manhattan 4 bedroom “boom”, was forwarded to an editor at the Wall Street Journal, resulting in the Corrections & Amplifications item posted Saturday on…
Tagged with: 4 Bedrooms, Kids, Large Apartments, New Development, School, Suburbs, Trend, Wall Street Journal
not news, data: Manhattan coops outnumber condos 3:1, but rentals outnumber both 3:1
pinning a Manhattan real estate data point: distribution of housing in ManhattanThat Housing and Vacancy Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau I relied upon yesterday is the source for some simple data nuggets that answer these oft-asked questions: how much…
shredding the fabric: a building's culture is endangered when financial treason is discovered
long ago Manhattan Loft Guy promise, fulfilledWhen last I touched on the low-life property manager who cheated at least 19 buildings (including “high-end coops and condos” in Manhattan, at least a few of which I know to be lofts) out…
Tagged with: Bassik, Condo Board, Coop Board, Culture, District Attorney, Downtown Properties, Fraud, Ny Times, Social Fabric, Theft
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