(you know this) when your transaction costs far exceed the ‘gain’ The suburbanites who just sold the first loft to resell at the uber-loft conversion slash new construction Sterling Mason, the “2,042 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4A at 71 Laight…
Tag: Laight
$5 million data points: unrealistic Manhattan loft sellers or market softening?
the numbers are intriguing One of the story lines coming out of the Manhattan Media Division of the Real Estate Industrial Complex has been about supply in the luxury market (specifically, in new developments), with the (often implicit) question about…
Tagged with: Beach, Days On Market, Duane, East 11, Greenwich, Hudson, Jonathan Miller, Laight, Mercer, N Moore, New Developments, Price Drops, Seventh, unrealistic seller, Washington, West 13, West 18, West 23, Wooster, Worth
Cobblestone Lofts seller surprised, disappointed that market at 28 Laight Street is so rational
… while fact-based outsiders smile The folks who just sold the “3,216 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3A at 28 Laight Street (Cobblestone Lofts) in the spillway of the Holland Tunnel in northernmost Tribeca thought a year ago they were selling…
Tagged with: Brick, Classic, Cobbelstone Lofts, Comps, Fireplace, Floor Plan, Laight, Layout, Light, Neighborly Competition, Neighbors, Rational, View, World Trade Center
flashy 88 Laight Street loft underperforms, answers question “when is a 17 foot ceiling not 17 feet?”
the mezzanine curse of (some) Manhattan lofts afflicts this Tribeca loft I am going to save you some SHOUTING (you’re welcome) by noting that the broker babble for the recently sold “1,982 sq ft” Manhattan loft #8 at 88 Laight…
Tagged with: Bidding War, Empire State Building, Laight, Mezzanine, Note To Self, river view, streeteasy index, View, Windows
28 Laight Street 1-day loft sale looks like a whisper listing
can’t be real, perhaps it is one of those We can agree, I assume, that the public record behind the recent sale of the “2,705 sq ft” Manhattan loft #2D at 28 Laight Street in the Cobblestone Lofts cannot reflect…
Tagged with: Cobblestone Lofts, Comps, Laight, Neighbor, New York Times, Parking, Public, Whisper Sale
memory lane: of cobblestones and new condo owners in Tribeca (an unusual conflict)
SYAToMLGYou were warned in my July 4 post that you’ve got a couple of weeks of archived Manhattan Loft Guy material coming up. Let’s kick it off with a SEVEN Years Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy, my July…
when bad things ($605/ft!) happen to nice lofts, super storm edition at 79 Laight Street
you get a massive discount, and a projectIt is not often that you see weather impacts in Manhattan loft listings or sales, or that you see lofts for sale that have actually been wrecked (as in destroyed) as opposed to…
Tagged with: Comps, Flood, Insurance, Laight, Neighbor, Renovation, Storm, Us Sugar Warehouse, Weather, Windows
what has changed at Cobblestone Lofts, 28 Laight Street, since 2005?
warning: no rational market aheadTo answer the headline question quickly (as if there were any mystery to it): nothing significant has changed since 2005 about the new-in-2001 multi-building residential loft conversion known as 28 Laight Street, the Cobblestone Lofts. It…
Tagged with: 2001, 2005, Comps, Floor Plan, Holland Tunnel, Laight, Neighbor, Northwest Tribeca, Proportion, Rational
161 Hudson Street closes off 2.5% since (late) 2007
crude measures are, well, crudeRegular readers of Manhattan Loft Guy know that I am enamored of the power (well, potential) of the Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008, and that one of my favorite uses to date…
Tagged with: 2007, Comps, Holland Tunnel, Hudson, Laight, Light, Longandnarrow, Neighbor, Square, Views
Wall Street Journal flogs north Tribeca for no apparent reason
too much time on their hands?Believe me, I get that one purpose of the media wing of the Manhattan Real Estate Industrial Complex is to create ‘news’ about little neighborhoods, in part to follow a narrative of up-and-coming. This Wall…
Tagged with: Beach, Change, Hubert, Laight, New Developments, North West Tribeca, River Lofts, Sugar Warehouse, Wall Street Journal, Washington
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