Category: market trends

Goldilocks in the too pushy ..? thread in greater midtown

the right ideaThere’s a corridor in the Greater Midtown area with a lot of new Manhattan condo developments, some lofts, some not. One 2007 loft conversion has a new listing this week priced about $150/ft less than the original purchase

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too pushy …?? thread / Soho edition

  classic or uber? These Manhattan loft candidates for the Goldilocks question are Soho neighbors in buildings that could hardly be more different. One is a brand spanking new uber-loft; the other is a classic loft. Let’s play too pushy

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too pushy…?? thread Vol 3 / Tribeca build-out

  reaching for a dream? Am I getting carried away with this thread? Perhaps, but yet another candidate for the Goldilocks question came to market recently, raising the question of whether the seller is being too pushy about price in

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the too pushy?? thread continues / another one to follow, in Flatiron

  reaching? Here is another new Manhattan loft listing that I will try to follow (like the two in 2 new Tribeca lofts too pushy or just pushy enough?? from yesterday) because it may be pushing prices further than The

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2 new Tribeca lofts too pushy or just pushy enough??

  anonymous lofts I normally don’t comment on new listings (you know why: end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns? from April 9) but I sometimes do so obscurely. I hope this is opaque

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more eternal springing / will unsuccessful 2006 price work in 2008?

if at first you don’t succeedI saw a new Manhattan loft listing this morning in a prime loft building in a non-prime loft neighborhood that has been off the market for two years. I am not going to be more

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one sobering data point / 684 Broadway loft sells slowly, reluctantly

 (9.26.08: my apologies about the hrrible formatting of this post originally; undoubtedly it was human error [fire that guy!]) one small data point for NoHo, how big a fact for broader market??The Manhattan loft 684 Broadway #7E has been on

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… 5 golden rings … 4 price drops …

I have removed the content of this blog post, as it comments about the current listing of another agent. For information about why, check out end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns? from April

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creeping Manhattan inventory a feint or more creepy?

oracle of dataOver at Matrix, Jonathan Miller links to a chart he did for Crain’s New York Business showing that the number of coops and condos available for sale in Manhattan has gone up 15% from the end of December to

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data are limited (point taken), but what next / NY Times column about the flaws in reported housing data

  Economix mixes data and opinion to complain about data David Leonhardt’s thoughtful “Economix” column this week in the NY Times highlights the conundrum of home price statistics, What Statistics On Home Sales Aren’t Saying.   His general point is

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