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Heywood loft sale (263 Ninth Avenue) is candidate for strangest sale of the year

not a winner, yet, except in The MarketHaving just done end-of-year posts of personal and reader favorites from the Manhattan Loft Guy 2010 archive, I suppose it is natural for me to react to an odd listing history by wondering

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250 Mercer Street small loft flies off shelf, above ask, above $1,000/ft

New York Post recent Manhattan residential sale is, in fact, recent, and interestingSometimes the residential sales that appear in the newspapers (New York Post on Thursdays, New York Times on Sundays) are more or less current; sometimes they are much

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114 Mercer Street loft sells at $848/ft with 4 windows, 3 mints, 2 dark BRs + 1 exposure the limits of the Long-and-Narrow form

The Manhattan loft 114 Mercer Street #2 is said to be “2,300 sq ft” with 14 foot ceilings, and to have been gut renovated with some especially chic details. It sits on a prime Soho block (between Spring and Prince),

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bass ackwards at 150 Nassau Street?? as lofts are sold low + bought high, with an agency twist

(doesn’t work in my spell check, either)When I observed that the buyer of the Manhattan loft #9E at 150 Nassau Street on November 3 has a notice address of #9A at 150 Nassau Street I began to wonder. First I

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why did The Market hate this small loft at 315 Seventh Avenue?

cue the head-scratching machineIn a world of weird, in which Manhattan Loft Guy is something of a connoisseur of weird, the October 14 sale of 315 Seventh Avenue #12A (the Kheel Building) for $620,000 caught my eye. This little loft

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primo penthouse loft renovation in prime Soho prompts $1,400/ft sale at 561 Broadway

raw rest of floor sold around the The PeakHere’s an interesting comparison of two very large penthouse lofts on the same floor of the same building, one selling as a total gut job right around The Peak of the Manhattan

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bloody competition at one Manhattan loft building

tight smiles in the elevator?It has been a while since i have posted about active listings (even without identifying them). I suspect that it would be less than interesting to read many Manhattan Loft Guy posts that said, in essence,

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small loft at 476 Broadway closes at $1,107/ft, in normal range

current, but not “news”The recent sale fo Manhattan loft #8M at 476 Broadway (October 20, at $1.44mm) probably falls into the dog-bites-man category, but we were just in this building last week to visit a pop-up contract (Oct 25, pop-up

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interesting price history of 71 Murray Street loft bought by Famous Couple

newsworthy for a different reasonThe Manhattan loft on the 10th floor at 71 Warren Street (the Hastings Building) made news when it sold on October 6 because the buyers are A Famous Couple (the New York Post mention is here,

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old story of new building ruining view: a cautionary tale with rules to protect yourself

there goes the view!Twice this week I have used the Lexington Avenue local station at 28th Street & Park, observing that the parking lot on the southwest corner is boarded up and that the building to the south on Park

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