quick hit: WSJ finds Manhattan real estate market “healing” in Second Quarter

Barbanel weighs in
My post this morning (for real: Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out) chewed on (and chewed over) the NY Times article today by Vivia Toy about the major firms’ reports on coop and condo sales in Manhattan in the Second Quarter. I made a note at the end to check out the (increasingly delightful!) competition between the Times and the Wall Street Journal’s new emphasis on local Manhattan news. In this morning’s Journal article, Manhattan Apartment Market Healing, Josh Barbanel does not disappoint.

Barbanel has the advantage over Toy in that he is not tied to a legacy template and has clearly been told to look for ways to do things differently. On first impressions, at least, I prefer his take on the Second Quarter reports to that of Toy in the Times.

is it the short paragraphs?
Probably what I like best about the Journal view of the reports is that the "however …" point is much closer to the top, in the fifth of five very short paragraphs (my bold):

I really like this important bit of context about average price data (my bold):

Again, real "analysis" of numbers will follow.

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