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…
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million dollar renovation at 144 West 27th Street?
Tagged with: 2011, Beams, bravo, broker owner, Comps, Floor, million dollar listing, Neighbor, Ny Post, Rebny, Renovation, streeteasy condo index, West 27
fraternal twin lofts across Harrison Street sell on same day for $3mm + a few bucks less
if one loft sale on this cozy Tribeca block is rare, what of two? “Rarely does anything turnover on Harrison Street” has a nice ring to it, and it is well within bounds for graded-on-a-curve broker babble. But when babbled…
Tagged with: Brick, Broker Babble, Ceilings, Competition, Comps, Floor Plan, Gut, harrison, laonf-and-narrow, Layout, Neighbor, Plumbing Stacks, Rebny, Renovation, Square Feet, Views, Windows, wood stove
Manhattan real estate is a funny business: the curious case of the Lower Soho loft at 49 Howard Street
loft takes 3 years to contract, data are hard to track (sigh) If you took a look at the Past Activity tab on the StreetEasy building page for 49 Howard Street (aka 307 Canal Street) you wouldn’t know that the…
103 Greene Street penthouse loft takes a (near) million dollar hit to sell below 2008
not everything is flyingThey had a little trouble selling the “2,474 sq ft” penthouse Manhattan loft #7A at 103 Greene Street in prime Soho back in the day, as the near-Peak campaign took 4 months and a big price drop…
Tagged with: 2008, Broker Babble, Greene, Longandnarrow, Outdoor Space, Patient, Peak, Penthouse, Rebny, Square Feet
particularly deep trough discovered, as 335 Greenwich Street loft sells 31% over 2009
some stories never get oldI can’t explain why, but I take particular pleasure in noting Manhattan loft sales that hit a particular narrative. In this case, the narrative for the recent sale of the “1,600 sq ft” Manhattan loft #5A…
Tagged with: Broker Babble, Efficient, Greenwich, Hanover River House, Jay, Light, Rebny, Square Feet, Trough, View
reprise: the square foot problem, its obvious (!) solution, and the horror that it will not change
a long time ago on a blog very near at hand…For some reason I had someone comment this week on a rather old Manhattan Loft Guy post, reminding me of that November 3, 2010, the square footage dilemma: REBNY "leads"…
Tagged with: Consumer Protection, Disclaimer, Floor Plan, Heddings, Measurements, Offering Plan, Rebny, Reprise, Square Feet
how to make sense of 475 Broadway loft sale, at $1,280/ft or $1,608/ft??
caution: rant is comingYou don’t need to know how big a Manhattan loft is to put a sale in the context of sales in the same building (assuming same footprints, of course), but it is very difficult to do a…
Tagged with: broadway, Condo Declaration, Jospeh Pell Lombardi, Offering Plan, Rant, Rebny, Square Feet, Standards
a troubling line potential sellers hear from agents all the time
having nothing to do with pajamas (really)The Real Deal has a puff piece in the June issue that was featured on their web page last week, Doing deals in pajamas, that has a dog-bites-man ‘news’ quality about it that is…
Tagged with: Agency, Cobrokering, Commission, Conflict Of Interest, Disclosure, Fiduciary, Incentives, Rebny, Sales Fee, The Real Deal
funny business, as 22 West 26 Street loft sells at 17% discount to first ask
not funny ha-ha, funny peculiarThat the recent sale of the “1,910 sq ft” duplex loft #9H at 22 West 26 Street is dear to the Manhattan Loft Guy heart is obvious to anyone who has looked at this datum of…
Tagged with: Bath, Challenge, Duplex, Floor Plan, One Bed Wonder, Play Small, Plumbing, Rebny, Renovation, West 26
REBNY does good! flip tax problem resolved
my dues at work (yay team!)Regular Manhattan Loft Guy readers know that I have a somewhat … (shall we say) … conflicted perspective on our trade association, REBNY. Basically, I feel that residential agents (and especially consumers) are the poor…
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