Manhattan Loft Guy truculence unleashed: cautionI toured some Manhattan loft open houses yesterday with buyers, and saw some interesting lofts. The "highlight" of the tour was a visit to a loft with a terrific skeleton — clearly a total gut renovation…
Category: manhattan real estate business
what's wrong with these people? agents who speak out of their …
Tagged with: 1995, 2006, Comps, Ethics, Primitive, Puffery, Renovation, Salesmanship, Square Feet, Windows
the (boring) details about building financials that can prevent your loft from selling
especially smaller loft buildings I have heard a couple of stories in the last few weeks from an agent and a mortgage lender about how some of the arcana about a Manhattan coop’s or condo’s finances make it difficult or…
Tagged with: Coop Board, Default, Fannie, Fidelity Bond, Freddie, Lending Standards, Managing Agent, Mortgage, Ny Times
picking on coop boards but in need of editing (NY Post)
it is their job, dammit Why do people pick on Manhattan coop boards? Because it is easy and because they sometimes do dumb things that make the newspapers. And because they are an easy target on a site like…
Brown Harris vs Brown Harris / 25% drop in coop value at the top already??
too weird to avoid I just saw this story from an ABC News blog, plugging a 20/20 interview tonight (hat tip to Curbed.com) by one of THE top top-end agents in Manhattan. Yes, agents (and Manhattan real estate firm management) say uninformed…
no country for old FSBOs? no Manhattan lofts above $1mm
Manhattan sellers pay to sellIt has been quite a while since I parsed the NY Times online Manhattan residential real estate listings for brave for-sale-by-owners of lofts (last was December 13 no loft FSBOs for the Holidays; before that July…
the problem with anecdotes / reports from 40 Bond Street and Time Warner
Though a relatively short piece, Josh Barbanel’s June 8 Sunday NY Times review of market data (A Mixed Picture) was rich for me, generating a June 11 post (data point in a sideways market / closing at 32 West 18…
why a gag rule within REBNY about specific listings?
As a follow-up to yesterday’s startling post (for readers and for me), end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns?, I can imagine a reason for a REBNY gag rule about the listings of other…
end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns?
evolution, not revolutionAs I look back out how this blog has evolved over the last 25 months, one of the most interesting (to me) things I have done is to put in context what is going on in a particular…
coop boards behaving badly / 32 Gramercy Park South edition
you can’t make this stuff upTip of the Manhattan Loft Guy hat to Gothamist for pointing to the NY Post article and one in the Daily News reporting that the coop board at 32 Gramercy Park South has sued an…
no loft FSBOs for the Holidays
NY Times.com revenue to suffer?The NY Times real estate website has 677 “listings” for lofts in Manhattan between $1mm and $5mm. Not all of these are real, of course, as some are open listings for new developments posted by agents…
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