tangled webs woven by Manhattan Media wing of the Real Estate Industrial Complex I’d like to think I’m more a skeptic than a cynic, as I habitually click through background data to better understand newspaper (or other) stories about real…
Tag: Ny Post
weird fluff piece: “flip queen” may have actually lost money for mother-in-law
Tagged with: Bushwick, Closing Costs, Flipping, Jonathan Miller, Light, Ny Post, Outdoor Space, Renovation, Roof Deck, Views
Taylor Swift doesn’t care about your “Market Rules”
Citizen-journalism gets to the bottom of a Tribeca loft mystery I had a fun weekend diversion, prompted by a question from Tribeca Citizen (the essential Tribeca blog) about someone who seems to have significantly overpaid for a loft at 155…
Tagged with: Celebrities, Condo Board, Franklin, Greene, Ny Post, rational market, Taylor Swift, Tribeca Citizen
simple, right? don’t measure Market Trends by asking prices
but the NY Post doesn’t know that I did a quick hit on my Manhattan Loft Guy Facebook page after reading this November 28 puff piece from the NY Post, Apartments experiencing the ‘fastest market adjustment ever’, because I’m a skeptical guy (in…
million dollar renovation at 144 West 27th Street?
lovely loft, interesting price above ask, sold by … The recent sale of the “2,400 sq ft” Chelsea loft #7R at 144 West 27 Street at $3.125mm is old news by now to people who follow real estate gossip news (even…
Tagged with: 2011, Beams, bravo, broker owner, Comps, Floor, million dollar listing, Neighbor, Ny Post, Rebny, Renovation, streeteasy condo index, West 27
Manhattan Loft Guy readers are ahead of the Times about loft sale at 32 West 18 Street, by 7 months
though (just) behind the PostI am sometimes aghast, occasionally enthralled, and once in a while simply filled with wonder at the workings of the Real Estate Industrial Complex, Manhattan Media division. If you are an avid spectator of the Manhattan…
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…
Tagged with: Celebrity, Comps, Duplex, Ipad, Neighbor, Ny Post, Renovation, Square Feet, Streeteasy, West 20
NY Post goes into the way back machine: Flower District in 1979
fur on the walls, gardenias in the airWonderful piece in today’s New York Post real estate section about an artist / mystery writer and wife who moved into a Flower District loft in 1979 that had last been a furrier’s…
Tagged with: 1979, Change, Flower District, Gentrification, Groff Studios, History, Longandnarrow, Ny Post, Pioneer, West 28
small piece of troubled loft empire sold at 95 Greene Street
condo could use some giant stepsI was talking to 2 friends last night, both of whom are professionally informed about Manhattan residential real estate, and was surprised to learn that neither one was aware that the Condo v. Unit Owner…
Post scoop: celebs close on raw loft at 427 Washington Street at $869/ft
Post flub: priceI can’t find a public record behind the lead celebrity real estate item in today’s Gimme Shelter feature in the New York Post on ACRIS, StreetEasy or The Shark, but according to our data-base Jennifer Gould Keil got…
Tagged with: Actors, Ceilings, Celebrities, Combination, Gut, Ny Post, Renovation, River Lofts, Views, Washington
nothing stays the same, a/k/a the gentrification issue in Chelsea + Lower East Side
car repair shop editionOh the serendipity of juxtaposition! If you looked at The Real Deal this morning (which is still in full spasm mode over the 100th edition celebrations) you’d have seen two items just 5 posts apart dealing with…
Tagged with: Auto Repair, Canute, Change, Delancey Pitt, Gentrification, Lodown, Ny Post, The Real Deal, West 29
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