nice (rare) consensus among firms!Yesterday I beat up a little bit on Vivian Toy’s traditionally formatted New York Times article about the 4 major quarterly Manhattan real estate market reports for the Third Quarter and a bit more on the…

a rainy day also rains numbersI am pretty sure I am in the minority about this, but I believe that major players in the Real Estate Industrial Complex in Manhattan are missing a shift in how consumers want information processed…

a focus on the data from the Second QuarterAs is my wont, my first posts about the major firm reports from the Second Quarter and Manhattan real estate were about the drama of the reporting, this quarter ‘enlivened’ by the…

that didn’t take longWhen I blogged this week about actual research done by the Wall Street Journal from city data about coop and condo sales in Manhattan (June 28, first Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out), I…

Barbanel weighs inMy post this morning (for real: Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out) chewed on (and chewed over) the NY Times article today by Vivia Toy about the major firms’ reports on coop and condo sales…

a third set of impressions of the First QuarterHaving sniped at the media narrative (April 2, first impression of First Quarter reports) and then having psycho-analyzed the Big Firm reporting styles (April 5, second impression of First Quarter reports) it…