Tag: Miller Samuel

comparing 1Q Manhattan loft data + overall market / another nugget report

  The Manhattan real estate quarterly market reports from the three major firms that report data treat the loft niche market differently. The Miller Samuel report remains the gold standard for Manhattan loft info, while the Terra Holdings reports offer

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the numbers are coming! the numbers are coming! 1Q market report season begins

links + teaseThe headline of the Josh Barbanel  piece in this morning’s New York Times pretty much says it all about the major firms’ First Quarter Manhattan residential real estate market reports: Apartments Sell for Less if They Are Sold

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comparing nuggets / 4Q Manhattan loft data + overall market

so few nuggets The overall Manhattan 4Q Numbers, 3 ways, with some year-over-year comparisons:   median sales price avg price per foot transactions days on market inventory Miller Samuel $900k [up 5.9%] $1,183 [up 0.3%] 2,282 [off 9.4%] 159 [up 21.3%]

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real nuggets as The Miller counts Manhattan lofts in 4Q report

  consistent numbers + analysis … what a concept! Yesterday I hit the Halstead 4Q08 report (insofar as it addressed Manhattan lofts; i.e., not so much: nuggets from Q4 market reports / Halstead dribs + drabs). Short story: apart from

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hard data are hard to find … here's some on 30 days of actual loft sales

first of a series? maybeA week ago I set up a spreadsheet on Google Docs as a way to retain and order data that I look at periodically — namely, recent actual sales of Manhattan lofts. Since then I have

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are Manhattan prices off 15% since mid-Summer?

The Miller thinks soHere’s the (slight mis-)quote in The Fed’s Beige Book from Jonathan Miller, as noted in his blog, Matrix, on Wednesday (my bold in the quote):  Here’s the NY District perspective from you know who. A major residential

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more about that Second Quarter / Manhattan loft data

Yesterday I (finally) hit the big firm reports on Manhattan real estate transactions (and other stats) from the Second Quarter of 2008 (about that Second Quarter / data party like it is 2006). Today it is whatever data is reported

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about that Second Quarter / data party like it is 2006

better late than …?Of course there is a lot of instant ‘analysis’ when the big dogs bark out their quarterly market reports, not all of which is well considered. Indeed, note the differences in just these two headlines: Apartment Sales

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loft or not? caution: active ranting ahead

classification irritationEver since I began counting new listings and closed sales for Manhattan "lofts" last October I have been aware of — and irritated by — the definitional problems in doing such a ‘simple’ thing. As I said in that

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Barbanel gives up Manhattan sales data in NY Times, grudgingly

stingy reporter!I referred in Wednesday’s data point in a sideways market / closing at 32 West 18 Street to "Josh Barbanel’s latest frustrating review of market data from Sunday’s New York Times (A Mixed Picture)" as an intro to that

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