Tag: West 19

buying (+ overpaying) next door at 121 West 19 Street loft (Lion's Head, revisited)

talk about e-x-t-o-r-t-i-o-n!Let’s say you wanted to sell your Manhattan loft for $1.3mm but The Market offered no takers when you offered it publicly from February into July 2010. So you take it off the market, tail between your legs.

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white box loft sells for $847/ft at 251 West 19 Street, Manhattan Loft Guy is surprised

staying in ‘project’ modeYet another buy-and-build Manhattan loft that closed recently has caught my eye. Unlike the Manhattan lofts hit this week that were total gut jobs (January 25, 303 Mercer Street loft with nothing but potential sells for $640/ft,

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Lion's Head penthouse loft closes out of foreclosure (121 West 19 Street) with a 7-figure bank hit

[with Jan 28 postscript]our long national nightmare is overWith the January 6 sale of #PH-E at 121 West 19 Street (The Lion’s Head) for $2,445,810, the most bizarre and longest-running saga of a Manhattan loft in the tenure of Manhattan

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flight or fight? the disappointed seller’s conundrum, 30 East 21 Street and 205 West 19 Street lofts edition

persist? or take a time out?There’s a hard decision to be made at some point by every loft seller who is disappointed that The Market does not love the loft as it should, second only to the harder decision as

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trading spaces / (lots of) loft on West 19 Street for (lots of) light + terrace on Gramercy Park

one of those 8 million storiesI mentally filed away an Observer piece from July 30 some time ago for a future post. The Observer observed because it involves a celebrity. Voyeur that I am, Manhattan Loft Guy is interested because

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another sign that 2010 is not 2009, as 60 West 15 Street loft sells

today’s trend: trying again might workYesterday’s post, 12 examples of the (rapid) velocity of the Manhattan loft market, provided data confirmation that the velocity of the Manhattan loft market was pretty high, at least for the last three months. Today

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Chelsea House kinda sorta holds its own, reveals Truths in The Market

more or lessThe Manhattan "loft" #8D at 130 West 19 Street, Chelsea House, closed on June 18 at $1.51mm, down 6% from its last clearing price three years ago. If you are familiar with my post comparing lofts that sold

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foreclosure sale at 251 West 19 works out, for banks at least

don’t see this every dayWhile cleaning up the Manhattan Loft Guy Master List of downtown loft closings between $500k and $5mm, I discovered that 251 West 19 Street #3C closed on March 26 for $1,578,287 (deed filed April 14). That’s

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new Manhattan loft listings + closed sales in last 7 days

  This is the seventy-fifth Manhattan Loft Guy report on the number, price distribution and neighborhood distribution for Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market or as closed sales in the last 7 days.The stats as of Sunday night:

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new Manhattan loft listings + closed sales in last 7 days

  This is the sixty-ninth Manhattan Loft Guy report on the number, price distribution and neighborhood distribution for Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market or as closed sales in the last 7 days.The stats as of Sunday night:

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