an almost yellow saleSo, sue me! I was away this weekend, so did not do my regular Saturday data dump of loft sales newly recorded in the last 7 days. Hence my early Saturday (getting in the car) post about…
an almost yellow saleSo, sue me! I was away this weekend, so did not do my regular Saturday data dump of loft sales newly recorded in the last 7 days. Hence my early Saturday (getting in the car) post about…
a form of humility, yes?This one is hot off the presses (deed filed today): the Manhattan loft #31 at 477 Broome Street sold on January 25 for $1.515mm, a discount of 10.6%% off the $1.695mm ask. What is interesting about…
bring an artist certificate?A couple of story lines intersect on Broome Street this month. The first has to do with the dip in foreclosures in New York City since 2009 and their relative scarcity in Manhattan; the second has to…
back on Broome StreetLet’s move one block east from yesterday’s post, some lofts still get hammered, as 554 Broome Street sale shows, to visit the corner of Broome and Thompson Streets, which was to have been a new condominium but…
on the other hand …With all the talk on Manhattan Loft Guy (and elsewhere) about the 2010 market being a more active and deeper market than 2009 (for example, my July 7 post, 12 examples of the (rapid) velocity of…
paired sale shows apparent gain over 2008The major improvement to the Manhattan loft sales data I aggregated into a Google Docs spreadsheet and posted (as MLG #1,000 on August 23) (click here to access it in the cloud) is that…
same story, different yearThe Manhattan loft #33 at 477 Broome Street recently delivered a new data point, with history:April 12, 2005 = $950kApril 29, 2009 = $965k This history nearly precisely parallels the 2006-2009 history of a loft profiled a…
bringing light but hiding windows?Yesterday’s New York Times On Location Home & Garden feature Bringing Light to a New York Loft profiled a Broome Street total renovation ("gutted to its floor joists and beams and totally rebuilt — with plumbing,…
hardball, anyone?This one is interesting from a negotiating perspective. The Manhattan loft at 354 Broome Street #5G closed (deed filed September 24, but the clearing price was unknown for a while; it was $1.85mm) after having been on the market…
I have removed the content of this blog post, as it comments about the current listing of another agent. For information about why, check out end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns? from April…
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