Category: market data reports

second impression of First Quarter reports

why do they issue quarterly reports? I don’t know how many people actually do this, but I have now read the Manhattan real estate quarterly reports from each of the Big Firms. This exercise cause me to wonder why they

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first impression of First Quarter reports

what is wrong with that baseline?I do feel badly for the reporters who have to summarize the major firm quarterly reports of Manhattan real estate activity, such as Christine Haughney in today’s NY Times, Slight Rise in Manhattan Apartment Prices

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more counting wars / Manhattan coop + condo inventory

  some numbers(In which, Manhattan Loft Guy gets into the weeds — again — with numbers and takes StreetEasy to the woodshed.) Let’s beat that old horse of Different Firms, Different Numbers again … as a follow-up to my February

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master list of Manhattan loft closings is up to date!

finally!No kidding around … no one else has this data. I have just completed the Master List of Manhattan loft closings, bringing it up to date with deeds filed as of February 5 (the most recent available as of this

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more Manhattan lofts sold, but very, very slowly

like the overall Manhattan market, mostlyFollowing up on my post yesterday about the New York Times article about the Big Three market Manhattan real estate reports for the fourth quarter, here’s a nugget about the loft market from the Miller

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the reports are coming, the reports are coming!!

company choreographyToday’s NY Times has a preview of the major firms’ Manhattan real estate market reports for the fourth quarter of 2009, which are to be released today. The dance is that the numbers were delivered to the press a

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master list of Manhattan loft closings since November

this is The Big OneIt has been quite a while since I posted loft-closings-in-last-30-days, but I have not stopped keeping track of Manhattan residential lofts as they close. While there are many limitations in the data (discussed below), the collection

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comparing 2Q Manhattan loft data + overall market / the case of the missing lofts

   the race to publish ended with a boom this quarter The three major firm market reports for the Second Quarter 2009 came out last week, essentially at the start of the holiday weekend. You’ve probably seen enough of the

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new listing + sales data OH NOES / (over) optimism stopped by Dreaded Data Discontinuity

can this data set be saved?In my announcement that Manhattan Loft Guy (the guy, not the blog) has found a new home at Corcoran (June 4, ch ch ch changes … the Guy moves to Corcoran in Soho) I offered

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Manhattan loft inventory as of May 31 = 983

  Number of Manhattan residential lofts offered for sale as of Sunday night continues to reflect a bulging inventory, up a bit this week after two weeks of slight dips:   price range # of lofts $500k to $999k 159 $1mm

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