in search of a new locutionThe Manhattan loft #4R at 240 Centre Street (the venerable Police Building) is said to be “1,800 sq ft” but it plays smaller, to use a basketball term. It took some energetic price chopping to…
in search of a new locutionThe Manhattan loft #4R at 240 Centre Street (the venerable Police Building) is said to be “1,800 sq ft” but it plays smaller, to use a basketball term. It took some energetic price chopping to…
(in case you were worried)What is the ‘bigger’ (more impressive) way to describe a 1-bedroom loft: as a $3mm sale, or as “1,886 sq ft”? Both descriptions apply to the Manhattan loft #7C at 25 N. Moore Street (the Atalanta).…
an almost yellow saleSo, sue me! I was away this weekend, so did not do my regular Saturday data dump of loft sales newly recorded in the last 7 days. Hence my early Saturday (getting in the car) post about…
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…
you read it here secondI have ragged before on the “just” part of the New York Post’s regular Thursday real estate feature, “Just Sold” (like on February 25). Today’s edition, in contrast, reports a loft sale that is so “just”…
Conventional Wisdom takes another hitEach deed is a fact, but each fact does not necessarily fit a coherent narrative with broader application. Have I lost you yet? A deed filed on April 12 recorded as fact that A Woman sold…
how much for just the ceilings and the windows?The second floor in many classic Manhattan loft buildings is like the parlor floor in a brownstone: the ceilings are disproportionately high. In the case of the Manhattan loft #2CD at 66…
what do you get?The Manhattan loft #5W in the twin building coop 20-26 N. Moore Street finally sold on July 28, after coming back to market on February 6 and finding a contract by April 22. Why “finally sold” if…
how’d that happen?It is difficult to argue that the block of Mercer Street just below Houston Street is Prime Soho, what with Silver Towers and NYU just to the north, but it certainly is a convenient location. And it is…
new times, new values The Manhattan loft #5B at 107 West 25 Street closed on June 25 (the deed was just filed last week), the first loft to sell in this small building since 2007. Please raise your hand…
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