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: Kitchen
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
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
funky loft at 55 White Street with funky history sells quickly in misleading fashion
not all of Tribeca is in a frenzy I am not saying that the full recent listing history of the “2,221 sq ft” triplex Manhattan loft #1C at 55 White Street is intentionally misleading, but the explicit part of…
Tagged with: Ceilings, Fight Or Flight, Gray, Kitchen, Light, New York Times, Nyc Architecture, Triplex, White, Windows
difficult penthouse loft sells above ask at 399 Washington Street
attention to some details, not others The “1,800 sq ft” Manhattan penthouse loft on the 5th floor of 399 Washington Street at a funny little corner in Northwest Tribeca has many surface similarities to the raw-to-mints-in-3-years loft that I…
Tagged with: Comps, Jay, Kitchen, Layout, Longandnarrow, Neighbor, Outdoor Space, Penthouse, Renovation, Washington
not thawed in 2009, Lion's Head loft sells 9% over ask, 54% over 2006
let’s make it this week’s themeYesterday I featured a Soho penthouse loft that did not sell under $4mm in 2009 (and 2010!) but recently sold for $5mm (July 22, no thaw was good news for (eventual) penthouse loft seller at…
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
memory lane: Field of Dreams pricing sells 130 West 17 Street penthouse loft at huge premium
Five Years Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy You were warned in my July 4 post that you had a couple of weeks of archived Manhattan Loft Guy material coming up; almost up. In my July 15, 2008, 130…
not all lofts have open kitchens, least not at Chelsea Mercantile at 252 Seventh Avenue
who knew?One of the hallmarks of residential loft-style living is an open kitchen; indeed, I would argue that this element was one of the early dividers between people who liked “lofts” compared to people who liked “apartments”. To generalize…
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
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