(you know this) when your transaction costs far exceed the ‘gain’ The suburbanites who just sold the first loft to resell at the uber-loft conversion slash new construction Sterling Mason, the “2,042 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4A at 71 Laight…
Tag: Amenities
even a Chelsea Mercantile loft will struggle if over-priced
loft sellers can’t simply name their price, no matter a Chelsea loft icon In a world of bad (bad, bad!) news for buyers of Manhattan residential real estate, lofts and otherwise, there’s only a limited amount of cold comfort to be…
Tagged with: Amenities, Chelsea Mercantile, Comps, Empire State Building, Floor Plan, Light, monthlies, Neighbors, Seventh, View, Windows
let’s play Value The Terrace at 53 N. Moore Street, as penthouse loft sells!!
one of my favorite Manhattan real estate games … and a grand spectator sport Everyone has an opinion about the premium that outdoor space adds to a given property, but the nice thing about dealing as retrospectively as I do…
Tagged with: Amenities, Comps, Miller, N Moore, Neighbor, Outdoor Space, Renovation, Spiral Stair, Terrace, View
memory lane: I don't think this anticipated market change (“end of uber-lofts?”) happened
Five Years Ago Today on Manhattan Loft GuyYou 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 17, 2007, end of uber-lofts?…
Tagged with: Amenities, Classic Lofts, Memory Lane, Minilofts, New Development, Predictions, Syatomlg, The Real Deal, Uberlofts
sidewalk sale at 130 Watts Street comps very, very strongly to Peak loft sale
is street access a plus or minus?You see some fancy-schmancy Tribeca loft conversions that include a “townhouse” component, one or more (usually more) duplex or triplex units with direct access from the sidewalk, often in addition to direct access from…
Tagged with: Amenities, Comps, Longandnarrow, Neighbor, Nofrills, Peak, Sidewalk, Street Access, Townhouse, Watts
raise the price to get the price, as Lion's Head loft sells after oddly successful campaign
up 7.5% since 2007This is one of those days on which I see Manhattan Loft Guy as a collector of curios, a collection of just one damn Bright Shiny Object after another. Today’s BSO is the “1,990 sq ft” Manhattan…
40 Mercer St loft resale up 13% over 2009 sale, 21% lifetime
straight line gainsThe Manhattan loft #3D at the celebrated 40 Mercer Street sold on April 6, for the third time in its young life. (Does that mean people love it or hate it?) I will explain in a minute why…
505 Greenwich Street loft is up 8% since 2004, down 12% since 2006
in which it is better to have been the first owner than the secondEven if I had an easy way to search price histories for Manhattan lofts I don’t think I would find one quite like the zigging and zagging…
Saturday diversion / is Chelsea Mercantile contract newsworthy?
tomorrow must be a slow news day(Not for Manhattan Loft Guy; for the NY Times.) If it is "news" to Liz Harris of the NY Times (is she the new Josh Barbanel??), I guess it qualifies for at least a…
Tagged with: Amenities, Comps, Contract, Mercantile, Neighbor, Ny Times, Seventh, Wall Street Journal
then what? 34 Leonard new Manhattan loft development to be auctioned
wanna buy a building?Back when I was marketing a Tribeca loft that never sold (sellers were firm about what they wanted; The Market was firm that it was not available), I used to watch the construction of 34 Leonard Street…
Tagged with: Amenities, Auction, Busters, Foreclosure, Land Lease, Leonard, New Development, West Broadway
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