Tag: Curbed

rule breaking over celeb loft for sale at 142 West 26 Street

two Manhattan Loft Guy rules broker, for the price of one I usually don’t identify the current owners of Manhattan lofts for sale, or current residents in a building, out of respect for their privacy. And I usually don’t comment

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one sobering data point / 684 Broadway loft sells slowly, reluctantly

 (9.26.08: my apologies about the hrrible formatting of this post originally; undoubtedly it was human error [fire that guy!]) one small data point for NoHo, how big a fact for broader market??The Manhattan loft 684 Broadway #7E has been on

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Brown Harris vs Brown Harris / 25% drop in coop value at the top already??

  too weird to avoid I just saw this story from an ABC News blog, plugging a 20/20 interview tonight (hat tip to Curbed.com) by one of THE top top-end agents in Manhattan. Yes, agents (and Manhattan real estate firm management) say uninformed

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lux diversion / Time Warner or 165 Charles as better “investment”?

not much gain for PortmanBraden Keil’s Gimme Shelter grab bag in today’s NY Post (hat tip to Curbed for pointing it out) mentions two celebrity Manhattan real estate transactions that caught me eye, though neither involves a real loft. The

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Mothra v. Godzilla, or the epic battle over Manhattan sales volume reports

Terra takes on The MatrixI commented last Friday about the discrepancy between the number of coop and condo sales in Manhattan in the first quarter of 2008 as reported by 3 major firms (April 11, Q1 Manhattan market reports highlight

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“one of the finest and most honest broker-bloggers …

… the NYC real estate industry has produced to date" (blushing)I did not say that (nor anyone in my family); Curbed did in yesterday’s Silence of the Bloggers: Manhattan Loft Guy Muzzled. (More blushing.)Wow.Lockhart Steele and the Curbed-folk run an

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Q1 Manhattan market reports highlight high prices + major caveats

The Market of high prices and confusing numbersEnough about me! Let’s talk about what I think about the Manhattan market reports for the first quarter issued by the major firms that got so much media play last week….As typified by

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… 3 (more) french hens … 2 (more) price drops (477 Broome + 28 West 38 St)

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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creeping Manhattan inventory a feint or more creepy?

oracle of dataOver at Matrix, Jonathan Miller links to a chart he did for Crain’s New York Business showing that the number of coops and condos available for sale in Manhattan has gone up 15% from the end of December to

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seasonality of Manhattan inventory, not so much

numbers don’t lie, but they can confuseI put this one aside a week ago, not sure what it means. I have decided it does not mean much, except that it addresses a question that people sometimes ask, and that other

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