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renovation premium evident as 720 Greenwich Street lofts sells for 29% over 2010

though extent of renovation is still somewhat unclearThis is how to let the world know the vintage of a renovation used to market a Manhattan loft: “renovated in the last year with …”. No need to worry about what an

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“fully renovated” 39 East 12 Street lofts sells at 14% premium to 2010, with pre-2010 renovation

another Jedi mind trick?I pointed out the mind games that broker babble can play with buyers last week in my July 5, did a Jedi mind trick garner 40% premium over 2010 for a small loft at 107 West 25

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7 Essex Street loft goes for Peak, wins!

nice when it worksBefore the recent sale of the “1,584 sq ft” Manhattan loft #7A at 7 Essex Street at $1.6mm, the last loft in the building to sell at or above that price was way back at The Peak,

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did a Jedi mind trick garner 40% premium over 2010 for a small loft at 107 West 25 Street?

is your coffee fresh?The recent sale of the “1,100 sq ft” Manhattan loft #2C at 107 West 25 Street, which recently sold (with a “400 sq ft” private terrace) at $1.4mm, involves a deceptively complex tale. The complexity will unfold

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$1,500/ft for 7 Bond Street loft with 4 windows, no bedrooms

The Bond Street effect in actionThe problem for the "1,100 sq ft" Manhattan loft #2D at 7 Bond Street is obvious from the floor plan, and only slightly less obvious from the photos: the four great big windows at the

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loft at 245 Seventh Avenue sells at $1,215/ft with very strange wall

a post for floor plan fetishists onlyOf course I will get to the financial and comparative details, but the first thing I looked at for the “2,258 sq ft” Manhattan loft #4B at 245 Seventh Avenue that just sold for

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2nd floor loft at 9 West 20 Street beats well-dressed 5th floor loft from 2010

or, is the broker babble too modest?It can be difficult to compare Manhattan lofts based on small photos and broker babble, but you’d think that listing descriptions and photos put a property in the best possible light. In the case

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small loft sale at 252 Seventh Avenue is another double-sided bold name transaction

once more into The MercThe New York Observer has the news about a recent sale of a small loft at the Chelsea Mercantile, sold by a photographer to an HBO executive. (I have heard of one half of these bolds,

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more than 18 months to contract for 377 West 11 Street loft

only 2 price changes, less than 10% totalYou’d think that a Manhattan loft on the market from August 2010 into 2012 would need more than a 10% price drop to sell(if you are like me, that is.) I still think

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bold-faced names on both sides of 121 West 20 Street loft sale that beat 2008 by a million bucks

bold numbers are more interestingThere is something extremely weird about the recent sale of the top-floor duplex Manhattan loft #5D at 121 West 20 Street. Not the fact that none of the names printed in the New York Post report

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