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designer of renown will not be pleased that 114 Mercer Street loft sold for $989/ft

perhaps they won’t tell himThe broker babble for the “2,250 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4R at 114 Mercer Street calls Martin Raffone a “renowned New York designer” and the loft “ a warm, modern living environment- a quiet sanctuary away

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15 Mercer Street loft closes off a million

width + height = volumeI was disappointed that the buyer I told about the “2,916 sq ft” Manhattan loft on the 2nd floor at 15 Mercer Street did not like the 2nd floor, because I love this loft. But not

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170 Mercer Street loft sells after 15 months, 15% off neighbor in 2005

starting from the same place, going in different directionsThe last two residential lofts to sell at 170 Mercer Street in the Manhattan Loft Guy range of $500,000 to $5,000,000 (see the Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008)

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(Part 2) riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market

  [having discovered that my draft post was WAY too long for this platform, the end of my Part 1 post follows, with the last paragraph repeated…] … With this building sales history as context, the exemplar July 2011 sale

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riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market (Part 1)

a different approach to outliersI daresay that the Sunday real estate section lead article in yesterday’s New York Times by Vivian Toy, In New York, a Sprinkling of Higher Prices, will get a lot of play on the inter tubes.

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velocity in the Manhattan loft market / 72 Mercer Street sale was not the fastest

not to mention, huge gain over January 2008 sponsor saleI tend to collect a bunch of interesting recent sales each week for future posts, writing a headline and capturing the link; often I don’t get to all in that collection

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40 Mercer St loft resale up 13% over 2009 sale, 21% lifetime

straight line gainsThe Manhattan loft #3D at the celebrated 40 Mercer Street sold on April 6, for the third time in its young life. (Does that mean people love it or hate it?) I will explain in a minute why

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ignore this loft “sale” at 114 Mercer Street

no length between the armsOne of the risks in looking at closed transactions in Manhattan loft buildings is that things are sometimes not what they seem. Or, that they are exactly what they seem if you look a little closer.

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it is impossible to prove that the Soho artist in residence regulations are a resale problem unless 'victims' come forward

number crunching cannot get you thereOne way to look at how different people talk about A.I.R. in Soho is whether they think it is “a problem” or whether they think it is like white noise (always present, more or less,

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it is impossible to prove that the Soho artist in residence regulations are a resale problem unless 'victims' come forward

number crunching cannot get you thereOne way to look at how different people talk about A.I.R. in Soho is whether they think it is “a problem” or whether they think it is like white noise (always present, more or less,

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