if you build it …The petite Manhattan loft #307 at 39 East 12 Street (University Mews) traded four years ago as a build-your-dream loft for $850,000 then again (dream realized!) on May 10 at $1.25mm. I suspect that the dream…
if you build it …The petite Manhattan loft #307 at 39 East 12 Street (University Mews) traded four years ago as a build-your-dream loft for $850,000 then again (dream realized!) on May 10 at $1.25mm. I suspect that the dream…
if you build it (up), they will comeOffhand, I can’t recall a more bullish Manhattan loft resale than that of #6B at 111 Fourth Avenue, which closed on April 7 at $750,000 after having been purchased on October 27, 2007…
is the (missing) 2nd bathroom so valuable?I am having some trouble with the last two sales in the Manhattan loft building at 48 East 13 Street. The “2,250 sq ft” #9B sold on October 27 for $2.85mm, but the “1,500…
embracing loft diversityThe Manhattan loft building at 10 Leonard Street has only 16 units, but two of them sold this month. Though both are said to be about 1,700 sq ft and are newly renovated, they are different from each…
price discovery can be hardTake a generic classically Long-and-Narrow Manhattan loft, roughly 22 feet wide, with not a lot to brag about as far as finishes, and try to sell it in two very different sets of market conditions. As…
maybe 30 feet, down to gardenSometimes the cliches commonly used to sell real estate are more than just cliches, cliched as they may be. Case in point: the marketing text for the Manhattan loft #4C at 808 Broadway (the Renwick)…
going all white on yaI have been poring over the pictures and floor plans comparing the recent sale and June 2007 sale of the Manhattan loft at the top of 43 West 21 Street, trying to find seven figures of…
straight up bidding warThere are a lot of green April loft sales on the Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008; so many that the over-use of color in April deserves a post of its own. On some…
Aphorisms ‘R UsStop me if you have heard this before: if a seller sets a price that is ‘too low’ The Market has an opportunity to fix that price. When the little (“710 sq ft”) Manhattan loft #411 at 67…
not a new story, but stay for the floor plan pornThe Manhattan loft #2A at 245 Seventh Avenue that sold on April 12 at $1.675mm has a history that includes a nearly perfectly mis-timed sales campaign, starting within a few…
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