Tag: West 26

did 'subtle' ceiling height lead to dynamic price for 150 West 26 Street loft?

you probably have to see it to appreciate itThe “1,830 sq ft” Manhattan loft #403 at 150 West 26 Street just sold with some very enthusiastic broker babble. I am most curious about the “subtly adjusted ceiling heights offset by

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Heywood loft sale (263 Ninth Avenue) is candidate for strangest sale of the year

not a winner, yet, except in The MarketHaving just done end-of-year posts of personal and reader favorites from the Manhattan Loft Guy 2010 archive, I suppose it is natural for me to react to an odd listing history by wondering

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a tale of 2 neighbors at 150 West 26 Street, with 1 hard bargain

‘tis a puzzlement Manhattan Loft Guy loves a puzzle, and a deed filed last Saturday provides one (not counting: they file deeds on Saturday??) … why did the Manhattan loft #901 at 150 West 26 Street sell on November 12

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22 West 26 Street loft sells quickly above 2010 ask, above 2009 ask

if at first you don’t succeed …The July 6 sale of the Manhattan loft #3C at 22 West 26 Street illustrates a few things: a well-priced loft sells quickly in this market; a loft can sell in 2010 at a

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buying at $616/ft at 38 West 26 St / one of NY Mag's happy stories from recession

  not this timeNY Magazine is a big player in the Real Estate Industrial Complex, of course, but it does not have to always be a target for Manhattan Loft Guy. I liked the recent Eight Happy Stories From the

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courage punished, not rewarded, as 22 West 26 Street closes off 36% from first ask

  4 price drops, 49 weeks, blood on the tracksThe Manhattan loft #7H at 22 West 26 Street closed on February 2 at $1.215mm after a rather long slog and a pointed slap from The Market: it was first offered

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rule breaking over celeb loft for sale at 142 West 26 Street

two Manhattan Loft Guy rules broker, for the price of one I usually don’t identify the current owners of Manhattan lofts for sale, or current residents in a building, out of respect for their privacy. And I usually don’t comment

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sun floods, contract follows at 39 Great Jones

[update 12.12.08: I have restored this post (below), as the reasons for having removed it in April no longer obtain] I have removed the content of this blog post, as it comments about the current listing of another agent. For

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8 Sunday open houses $1.8mm

(remember to check the agent websites Sunday morning to see if open house is still on) this tour ranges from Tribeca to Soho to Chelsea, with a side trip for a (non-loft) “loft” in Gramercy, with nothing larger than 2,000

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irony abounds / NY Times on geography + internet

anybody else note this?I another NY Times article on Thursday that made me smile (see December 21 fluff (dated fluff, in fact) from NY Times ‘styles’ / remember that rug?? about cowhide rugs being over), Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology

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