at least, not every buyer should always panic If you are a buyer actively searching for a Manhattan coop or condo, chances are good that someone you know or love has already scared you with In A Seller’s Market, Every…
Tag: New York Times
not every buyer should panic: that scary New York Times article is right, to a degree
Tagged with: Bidding War, Days On Market, Discount, Inventory, Michelle Higgins, Negotiation, New York Times, Panic, Tips
diversion: do we need to see patterns where none exist?
Big Data = opportunities Data are information, not knowledge. The New York Times Well blog post this week (Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing) is based on a study of five entire seasons of free throws in…
Tagged with: Basketball, Big Data, Bowling, Diversion, Free Throws, New York Times, Patterns, Statistics, Uncertainty
400 shoes that used to live in 12 East 12 Street loft need a new home, carry big profit
hello old friend If you are a fan of well designed small lofts and a reader of Manhattan Loft Guy, you will remember the post I did about the tiny (“840 sq ft”) renovated loft with lots of shoes at…
Tagged with: 2007, Closets, East 12, Efficient, Fireplace, Mezzanine, New York Times, Renovation, Shoes, Small
Sunday diversion is about love (birds, bees and young people) and staying out late
a matter of personal indulgenceThrough the miracle of the inter-tubes, and the confidence of the principals and the editors of the Old Grey Lady, we got home well after midnight to find that the wedding we had just come from…
Tagged with: Algorithm, Baseball, Diversion, Friends, Grantland, Mvp, New York Times, Photos, Statistics, Wedding
in which Manhattan Loft Guy bravely calls BS on the Market Trend Meme Of The Day
fools rush in …Refill your coffee cup if you intend to get beyond the first few paragraphs here. My executive summary is that the much-repeated meme accounting for the huge sales volume at the end of 2012 is probably BS…
Tagged with: Days On Market, Discount, Miller, New York Times, Quarterly Report, Taxes, Trends, Volume
a staging coup: did selling the kitchen of 42 West 13 Street loft work better than selling the terrace?
2 fine features, 2 very different outcomes, 1 obvious reasonThis one is for all you folks who doubt that staging a loft for sale can be proven to lead to an increased value. The natural world rarely provides such a…
hard to believe we are talking again about coop boards' power to reject price as too low
if New York Times front pages it, ‘we’ are talking about itI will confess to a dropped jaw on seeing tha main article in this past Sunday’s New York Times Real Estate section: Board to Buyer: Nah. Not at That…
Tagged with: Attorney, Canute, Coop Board, Discretion, Judgment, Market Value, New York Times, Power, Too Low Price
Sunday diversion / big day in sports
all day screen festIt does not happen this way every Sunday, but for real fans today there are games to watch at noon, 3, 6 and 9, from the East Coast, to America’s so-called heartland, finishing on the West Coast.…
Tagged with: Baseball, Crasnick, Diversion, Espn, Harper, New York Times, Pinsky, Playoffs, Poet, Yastrzemski
“noted architect” will be disappointed that “incredible” 200 Mercer Street loft went for $939/ft
he’s not the only oneStart with “an amazing combination of genuine loft style and a top of the line renovation using only the best of modern materials” (“[d]esigned by [a] noted architect”). Add in 11 foot ceilings, classic brick, and…
Tagged with: Architect, Ceiling, Construction, Curbed, Kitchen, Mercer, Mezzanine, New York Times, Nyu, Renovation
third 307 West Broadway loft sells in 2012
a big jolt to the systemSmall Manhattan loft buildings have fragile ecosystems, and the smaller the more fragile. Take as one example the 7-unit oh-so-classic loft building 307 West Broadway at the extreme southern edge of Soho. I hit it…
Tagged with: Artist, Comps, Culture, Kitchen, Neighbor, New York Times, Primitive, Raw, Renovation, West Broadway
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