not with a bang but awhimper It will have taken nearly a yearfor the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) to bring out itspublic portal for searching exclusive Manhattan rental and saleslistings by the time this thing is…
Category: manhattan real estate business
where have all the loft FSBOs gone? nary a two on NYTimes.com
Manhattan loft FSBOs are very rare One of the topics on my personal gotta-blog-about-that list is based on that NY Times article a month ago about how for-sale-by-owners (FSBOs) in Madison, Wisconsin achieved sales prices comparable to homes sold…
recycling week / tragedy of the half-assed REBNY public web portal
quarter-assed portal?? I blogged about the saga of the miserable efforts by the Real Estate Board of New York to create a single public website for access to REBNY member firm exclusive sales and rental listings in the May…
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recycling week / that pesky 80/20 rule for coops
(I am still in France; you are still in Manhattan LoftGuy’s week of recycling.) I find myself frequently referringto this one from January 16 (IRSrules for coops / beware the 80/20 rule), as I keep running into coop…
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why can
The Washington Post had a piece on Saturday with a title that is pretty self-explanatory: How Big Is Your Condo? There Is No Right Answer. This is yet another contribution to the age-old question for Manhattan loft (and apartment)…
advantages to the much-maligned coop ownership, vs. condos
getting rid of a bad neighbor is much easier in a coop Another interesting bit in Sunday’s NY Times Real Estate Q + As section deals with one way in which coop boards have much more power than condo…
portal potted / REBNY website to limp out in September
weak-ass website coming It may sound like inside baseball to many, but the saga of the REBNY public web portal is a fascinating story, with important implications for how coops and condos are marketed and bought in Manhattan. I…
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more bad / agent
and we wonder why the public holds us in such … esteem Real estate agents get a lot of bad press. I sometimes think that one reason that is true in Manhattan is that so many people have their…
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condo boards behaving badly / quick to sue, for whom?
Can’t let this weird story pass, since it fits the recent them of “… acting badly” (neighbors on Jan 30, real estate agents on Feb 8, coop boards on Feb 9). Plus, it is kind of weird. THX to…
agents behaving badly / can an agent
Curbed community takes on an open house question There was an Asked Curbed feature last week can I return with my own broker? that raises some interesting questions about buying and selling Manhattan apartments – even apart from questions…
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