the good news: loft #6A overcame an awkward footprint to sell over ask The sale a month ago of the “2,100 sq ft” Manhattan loft #6A at 40 West 15 Street is a fascinating window on a variety of topics,…
Tag: 2009
Manhattan Loft Lab at 40 West 15 Street features building record, failed marketing, opposite styles, + more!
Tagged with: 2008, 2009, Ceilings, Comps, Empire State Building, Floor Plan, Kitchen, Kitchens, Light, Loft Style, Neighbors, Renovation, The Peak, The Thaw, Views, World Trade Center
buy low, renovate well, sell high: easy-peazy at 366 Broadway
a conventional story downtown Manhattan, enhanced by beautiful renovation work I need to bring some balance, some rationality, to my consideration of loft renovation projects in Tribeca. Steven Soderbergh’s devil-may-care attitude is driving me a little crazy today (yesterday’s post, 155 Franklin…
Tagged with: 2009, Architect, blinds, Comps, Flip, Floor, Floor Plan, Kitchen, Neighbor, Penthouse, Private Sale, Renovation, Second Floor, streeteasy condo index, Views, Windows
one “painstaking deconstruction” later, 874 Broadway loft sells for 236% of 2009 price
it can be very rewarding to take apart a Manhattan loft Numbers don’t lie: the “1,674 sq ft” Manhattan loft #301 at 874 Broadway (in the lovely MacIntyre Building) that was purchased in needs-a-renovation condition for $1.1mm in October 2009 (after…
Tagged with: 2009, broadway, Conventional Wisdom, Curbed, Renovation, steampunk, streeteasy index, West 29
Chelsea House loft at 130 West 19 Street provokes delayed bidding war
a fascinating sequence finally gets this loft off to the races It took the “1,596 sq ft” Manhattan loft #9A at 130 West 19 Street (the Chelsea House) 9 weeks to get into a contract above ask, but that is…
Tagged with: 2007, 2009, Bidding War, Chelsea, Chelsea House, Cookie Cutter, Layout, Long And Narrow, Master List, Nuclear Winter, West 19
buyers with cold nerves sell 4 West 21 Street loft at 51% gain
… and the home of the brave Let’s take another spin at a wheel I mentioned on Wednesday (September 18, masterpiece designed since 2009, 60 West 15 Street loft doubles in value) about the favorable resale position of 2013 sellers…
masterpiece designed since 2009, 60 West 15 Street loft doubles in value
cashing out on meticulous + to the 9s Not every agent has the credibility in the business to be taken at face value when saying things like “Renovated to the nines” and “Come home to the extraordinary”, but the listing…
Tagged with: 2009, broadway, Broker Babble, Fear, Fortitude, Kitchen, Miller, Renovation, Trends, West 15
TYAToMLG: a great counter counts summer contracts + listings
old market trends never really get old On Thursday I used The Miller’s new way of cutting the 20-year Manhattan residential real estate market into 8 eras in service of a post about a particular Tribeca loft with a…
not thawed in 2009, Lion's Head loft sells 9% over ask, 54% over 2006
let’s make it this week’s themeYesterday I featured a Soho penthouse loft that did not sell under $4mm in 2009 (and 2010!) but recently sold for $5mm (July 22, no thaw was good news for (eventual) penthouse loft seller at…
no thaw was good news for (eventual) penthouse loft seller at 347 West Broadway
playing with the calendar, for fun and profit If the headline above makes sense to you, thanks for being a regular reader. (For the rest of you, thanks for stopping by; feel free to return.) The premise for the punchline…
Tagged with: 2009, Comps, Lehman, Neighbor, Nuclear Winter, Penthouse, Terrace, Thaw, Volume, West Broadway
memory lane: New York lottery guy says two-MILL-yon dollars to describe discount on Greenwich Village “loft”
Four Years Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy You were warned in my July 4 post that you had a couple of weeks of archived Manhattan Loft Guy material coming up; almost up. In my July 16, 2009, dropping…
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