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deconstructing NY Times article about combining apartments to increase value

how the Real Estate Industrial complex works, and why it is unhelpful for consumersMaybe you people are way ahead of me, but I realized something that seems insightful about the unholy alliance between real estate media outlets such as the

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(Part 2) riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market

  [having discovered that my draft post was WAY too long for this platform, the end of my Part 1 post follows, with the last paragraph repeated…] … With this building sales history as context, the exemplar July 2011 sale

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riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market (Part 1)

a different approach to outliersI daresay that the Sunday real estate section lead article in yesterday’s New York Times by Vivian Toy, In New York, a Sprinkling of Higher Prices, will get a lot of play on the inter tubes.

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fourth quarter Manhattan residential market reports hit / what's your favorite number?

that time of the year againIt would have been too much to expect that the number crunchers could have dug out soon enough to have delivered numbers to the press under embargo last Friday (aka, last year), so the flurry

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Wall Street Journal oversells a Manhattan 4 bedroom “boom”

  [UPDATE: note the way The Journal acknowledged the error and then edited to make the article even less coherent: December 19, Manhattan Loft Guy, 1 – Wall Street Journal, 0, as WSJ posts 4 bedroom correction] (mis) adventures in

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