as penthouse week continues…Finally a penthouse loft sale with enough building comps to attempt to estimate the premium paid for private outdoor space! The Manhattan loft #6E at16 Hudson Street sold pretty quickly on August 31: came to market on…
as penthouse week continues…Finally a penthouse loft sale with enough building comps to attempt to estimate the premium paid for private outdoor space! The Manhattan loft #6E at16 Hudson Street sold pretty quickly on August 31: came to market on…
I doubt that they (much) improved on state-of-the-artThe “3,227 sq ft” Manhattan loft #5B at 195 Hudson Street has had a rather … dynamic … pricing history, leading to an unanswerable conundrum for me: how much of the increase in…
WTF?Head scratching time for Manhattan Loft Guy …. When the Manhattan loft #2C at 165 Hudson Street sold at $1.655mm in 2005 they said “This won’t last!!!” and they were right. (Prior listing not on StreetEasy, but is in our…
not a slur, honestWhen I call a seller “stubborn” I am talking about behavior, not character. (Note that I don’t call sellers “greedy”, though I may find sales efforts … inexplicable.) How other than “stubborn” to describe a seller who…
price discovery can be hardTake a generic classically Long-and-Narrow Manhattan loft, roughly 22 feet wide, with not a lot to brag about as far as finishes, and try to sell it in two very different sets of market conditions. As…
no ‘greed’ involvedI hate to use the word “greedy” to describe a seller and an asking price, but you will sometimes see trolls (bitter renters?) on Curbed or StreetEasy describe an asking price that is ‘too high’ that way. But…
a happy closing more than a happy birthdayWhen the Manhattan loft #2B at 165 Hudson Street closed on January 20 for $995,000 it had just ‘celebrated’ one of those awkward anniversaries for a residential sale listing, in Manhattan or anywhere:…
how do you spell f – l – a – t?The Manhattan loft #2D at 90 Hudson Street sold for $1.2mm on November 12, which is not bad these days for a no-frills-no-amenities-except-roof-deck coop conversion from 30 years ago. Except…
[oops — left off the title for 45 minutes]December 2010 sale was pretty sweet, howeverIt seems like only yesterday that I was wondering whether a Manhattan loft that sold above ask after having been on the market forever was…
serendipity is a wonderful thingI no longer recall what I was searching for in the Manhattan Loft Guy archives last week (or whether I even found it!), but I did come across this nugget from January 3, 2008, tales of…
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