leadership? not so muchIt’s the day after Election Day* so you will read a lot about Leadership today all over the inter-tubes. But you won’t find any other “pundit” talking today about Leadership in the context of REBNY and one…
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the square footage dilemma: REBNY “leads” by protecting brokers, not buyers
Tagged with: Architect, Commercial, Heddings, Measurement, Offering Plan, Rebny, Square Feet, Standards
new real estate agency law disclosures coming to Manhattan in 2011
REBNY announcement of A Major Change is a little weirdManhattan Loft Guy is going into the weeds of New York agency law and disclosure a bit, but before I force you to that I will give you the bottom line:…
save our flip tax! are coop flip taxes in danger from Fannie Mae?
odd ducks make for odd rulesInteresting catch by The Miller on his blog on Thursday, [Fannie Mae] Proposed FNMA Rule Change Could Damage Co-op Prices. I had been vaguely aware from national real estate sources that there has been some…
getting emotional (litigious!) over commission on $44 million Manhattan townhouse
it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad worldThe Manhattan residential real estate business is such a wonderful spectator sport because it has everything: big numbers! huge egos! drama queens (and drama kings, and drama knaves)! (Not to mention: spectacular lofts, apartments…
Tagged with: Bhs, Brown Harris, Commission, Contract Terms, Expiration, Litigation, Mansion, Rebny, Townhouse, Wall Street Journal
39 Worth Street loft finally closes, makes the papers
out of my leagueThe Manhattan loft #3E at 39 Worth Street finally sold last week, but that’s not why it made the papers. The buyer is a hotshot young designer who used to live on the Lower East Side, a…
REBNY does its job, takes anti-social stance against tax consistency
the problem with REBNYBecause all agents in all firms that are members of the Real Estate Board of New York are required to be REBNY members, I got a bit of email propaganda from the president of REBNY on behalf…
“one of the finest and most honest broker-bloggers …
… the NYC real estate industry has produced to date" (blushing)I did not say that (nor anyone in my family); Curbed did in yesterday’s Silence of the Bloggers: Manhattan Loft Guy Muzzled. (More blushing.)Wow.Lockhart Steele and the Curbed-folk run an…
why a gag rule within REBNY about specific listings?
As a follow-up to yesterday’s startling post (for readers and for me), end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns?, I can imagine a reason for a REBNY gag rule about the listings of other…
end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns?
evolution, not revolutionAs I look back out how this blog has evolved over the last 25 months, one of the most interesting (to me) things I have done is to put in context what is going on in a particular…
REBNY's paltry portal launches Friday (yawn)
not with a bang but awhimper It will have taken nearly a yearfor the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) to bring out itspublic portal for searching exclusive Manhattan rental and saleslistings by the time this thing is…
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