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…
Tag: Broker Babble
masterpiece designed since 2009, 60 West 15 Street loft doubles in value
Tagged with: 2009, broadway, Broker Babble, Fear, Fortitude, Kitchen, Miller, Renovation, Trends, West 15
56 Warren Street loft renovation added more value than it cost
known unknowns abound I am not unusual in always being interested in the impact that renovation has on value; most people who try to follow a residential real estate niche share that interest. I flatter my niche, perhaps, in thinking…
Tagged with: 2007, Bathroom, Broker Babble, Comps, Gut, Neighbor, Primitive, Raw, Renovation, Warren
1 Bond Street loft goes over $1,500/ft for 3 windows
the limits of a (lovely) form Last week it was the problems caused by the elevator placement in a Manhattan loft with a classic Long-and-Narrow shape (September 13, 77 White Street loft lacks “bedrooms” because elevator is in the wrong…
Tagged with: Bond, Broker Babble, Columns, Kitchen, Layout, Patient, Renovation, View, West Broadway, Windows
flipping the dark bedrooms earns 100 Hudson Street loft 20% premium over (near) Peak
who gets the light? The “1,025 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3A at 100 Hudson Street that just sold for $1.535mm with some “customized elements” looks a lot like the loft when it sold in June 2008 for $1.283mm with…
Tagged with: 2008, Bedroom, Broker Babble, Comps, Hudson, Layout, Neighbor, Renovation, View, Windows
133 West 28 Street loft sale shows the squeeze in 2-bedroom buyers
an enthusiastic result I am as much a fan of broker babble as the next guy (or Guy) and I appreciate enthusiastic attempts to make linguistic lemonade out of limited assets. The babble for the recently sold and hotly…
challenging American Thread loft at 260 West Broadway finally sells (contract took 50 weeks)
fools rush in (here comes Manhattan Loft Guy) … It is hard to argue with success, but I am going to try. The “1,365 sq ft” duplex Manhattan loft #9E at 260 West Broadway in the iconic American Thread…
Tagged with: American Thread, Broker Babble, Contract, Duplex, Light, Shades, Thin Market, Varick, West Broadway, Windows
108 Reade Street loft goes to war, secretly, beats the heck out of 2011 market
for reasons unknownStill groggy from a 4AM wake-up call on Wednesday in Buenos Aires and an overnight flight from Chile to JFK on (still) Wednesday night, but it is time to get out of the Manhattan Loft Guy archives and…
Tagged with: Asking Price, Bidding War, Bones, Broker Babble, Ceiling, Floor, Kitchen, Primitive, Reade, Streeteasy
36 N. Moore Street loft sells with half million dollar renovation
no idea what it cost; but that’s the value added These are not perfect comps for each other, by any means, but they are close neighbors of similar size and utility: the “1,800 sq ft” Manhattan #2W at 36 N.…
Tagged with: 1980s, Broker Babble, Closets, Comps, Kitchen, Longandnarrow, N Moore, Neighbor, Primitive, Renovation
129 West 22 Street loft seller rewarded by 24% in 26 months for not renovating
a paired resale analysisEvery “arm’s length” sale is a snapshot of the agreement that a buyer and a seller made about the value of a property at a particular point in time. Econ 101, right? And a pair of such…
Tagged with: 2011, Broker Babble, Classic, Closets, Kitchen, Layout, Primitive, Renovation, Volume, West 22
103 Greene Street penthouse loft takes a (near) million dollar hit to sell below 2008
not everything is flyingThey had a little trouble selling the “2,474 sq ft” penthouse Manhattan loft #7A at 103 Greene Street in prime Soho back in the day, as the near-Peak campaign took 4 months and a big price drop…
Tagged with: 2008, Broker Babble, Greene, Longandnarrow, Outdoor Space, Patient, Peak, Penthouse, Rebny, Square Feet
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