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Los Angeles loft lover buys mini-loft at 720 Greenwich Street

lack of east coast windows is no biggieWould you trade a “1,486 sq ft” downtown loft in a former toy factory with great open city views for a “700 sq ft” West Village loft in a former printing factory with

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unsold in Summer of 2008, 74 Fifth Avenue loft goes to war

yes, Virgina; timing is everythingThe recent sellers of the “2,475 sq ft” Manhattan loft #11A at 74 Fifth Avenue in the heart of Greenwich Village had poor timing the first time around. They tried to sell at $3.3mm from July

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another day, another parking lot to be developed / Varick Street Tribeca edition

more View Diligence due [UPDATED] The guy at Tribeca Citizen had a nice catch yesterday in response to a reader’s jackhammer question: building permits for the parking lot on Varick Street opposite the First Precinct. The Department of Buildings permit

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loft lab at 161 Hudson Street, as loft takes 5 months to make a quick sale

up 43% since 2004Yesterday was pricing at 2004 (January 10, 150 Nassau Street mini-loft sells at about 2004 pricing); today is about the sale of the “2,117 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3C at 161 Hudson Street at $2,323,150, which (among

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why did The Market put the hate on 2nd floor loft at 69 Murray Street?

$824/ft = hateThe mis-placed ‘master bedroom’ cannot be the only reason that The Market treated the Manhattan loft #2 at 69 Murray Street so shabbily; after all, that should just be a small demo job to fix. But there must

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Astor Place loft seller takes wee bath since 2005 at 445 Lafayette Street

almost a diversion, for being tardyThis one has been sitting in my To Do pile for a while, but is interesting enough for even a tardy post because it involves A Famous Building that (in this case, at least) has

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view is worth (only) 3%, or $36/ft, at 9 Murray Street (approx)

unless that was a rounding errorThe Manhattan loft #5NE at 9 Murray Street that sold in August is not a perfect match for the neighboring unit #11NE that sold in April, but the two units are very close siblings. The

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was there a million dollar renovation at 195 Hudson Street?

I doubt that they (much) improved on state-of-the-artThe “3,227 sq ft” Manhattan loft #5B at 195 Hudson Street has had a rather … dynamic … pricing history, leading to an unanswerable conundrum for me: how much of the increase in

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interesting loft sale at 260 Fifth Avenue, but Observer gets it wrong

why do they do that?The New York Observer reported yesterday that the Manhattan loft on the 8th floor at 260 Fifth Avenue sold for $3.95mm but, as you will see in a minute, it didn’t. It was a newsworthy event

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why did Chelsea Mercantile loft sell within 3% of The Peak?

Field of Dreams pricing, maybeWhen the Manhattan loft #15-I at 252 Seventh Avenue in the Manhattan Loft Guy fave Chelsea Mercantile sold on June 9 at $3.65mm it wasn’t a man-bites-dog story like my July 5, man bites dog! 49

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