Tag: 2006

39 Worth Street loft finally closes, makes the papers

out of my leagueThe Manhattan loft #3E at 39 Worth Street finally sold last week, but that’s not why it made the papers. The buyer is a hotshot young designer who used to live on the Lower East Side, a

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making (no) sense of The Market / what did The Elf buy at 345 West 13 Street?

paging David ByrneIn this episode, Manhattan Loft Guy starts with a celebrity purchase, moans about transactions without brokers, touches on how difficult it can be to compare same-building loft sales, and finally (nearly?) goes bonkers on why ACRIS data sometimes

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if at first … 24 East 22 Street closes after trying again, and again

a long strange tripThis is one of those posts that changed 180 degrees in a long gestation. It had a simple starting point (a Manhattan loft sold that had been marketed in 2006), with an extended series of didn’t sell

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29 East 22 Street loft closes off 40%

(from first ask, to last gasp)When the Manhattan loft #5N at 29 East 22 Street came to market in May 2008 at $2.75mm, they did not realize that The Peak was behind them. Painful hindsight 2 years later told them

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cool Manhattan sales volume data over at UrbanDigs

bumps + troughsNoah Rosenblatt just posted an interesting chart on his blog of average manhattan real estate sales volume (not prices, volume) from 2006 to present. Check out the whole thing for his explanation and cool graphics. He uses city

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terrace sells for about $1mm at 110 West 25 Street

‘crowning glory’, indeedThe top-floor Manhattan loft 110 West 25 Street #12 (aka "PH") closed last week (April 22, deed filed April 28) for $3.885mm. This "2,500 sq ft" interior space sounds much like the refined lofts on each of the

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Real Deal does recent paired sales from 2005-08

veddy interesting … but few detailsNo surprise that Manhattan Loft Guy is not the only guy interested in Manhattan real estate recent paired sales. My dump of 27 Manhattan lofts that sold since November 1 and that previously sold in

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42 West 15 St closes where it couldn't in 2008

weird but trueThe most intriguing thing about the recent closing of the Manhattan loft on the 2nd floor at 42 West 15 Street is not that the March 15 clearing price of $1.675mm was $24,000 off of where it previously

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22 Mercer Street closes up since 2007

  but not as well as neighborThe Manhattan loft #2D at 22 Mercer Street closed on March 4 at $3.05mm, which makes for 2 interesting comparisons. First, it had been purchased in the initial offering of this relatively new condo

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today's the day

rather: it was the dayMy first post on Manhattan Loft Guy (as Manhattan Loft Guy?) was March 19, 2006. Yikes! Happy Blog-day to me!! If you click on Archives on the lower right you can easily get back to those

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