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the numbers are coming! the numbers are coming! 1Q market report season begins

Apr. 2, 2009

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: barbanel, corcoran, discount, first quarter, halstead, miller samuel, ny times, quarterly reports, volume

The headline of the Josh Barbanel piece in this morning's New York Times pretty much says it all about the major firms' First Quarter Manhattan residential real estate market reports: Apartments Sell for Less if They Are Sold at All. There will be much t

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the problem with anecdotes / reports from 40 Bond Street and Time Warner

Jun. 18, 2008

Categorized in: Manhattan real estate business

Tagged with: barbanel, bond, closed, listings, ny times, price drop, sales, time warner

Like so many newspaper articles about Manhattan real estate, Barbanel's June 8 NY Times piece was a mix of big picture data and specific "facts", in this case about some high-end price reductions. Skeptic that I am, I tend to wonder if the facts fit the s

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Barbanel gives up Manhattan sales data in NY Times, grudgingly

Jun. 13, 2008

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: barbanel, closed, demand, miller samuel, ny times, sales

In a world hungry for real-time data, Barbanel's occasional articles referencing "last month's" Manhattan coop and condo sales data as recorded with the City's Department of Finance provide just a smidgen of a hint of a taste.

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data point in a sideways market / closing at 32 West 18 Street

Jun. 11, 2008

Categorized in: Loft neighborhoods / Flatiron

Tagged with: altair, barbanel, closed sale, miller, ny times, parking lot, views, west 18, west 19

Manhattan loft 32 West 18 Street #2B (Altair 18), had been for sale ... It had a signed contract in May and shows up as Sold & Closed in the inter-firm data today. While that is undoubtedly a huge relief for the sellers after 7 months and 5 prices, that s

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Mothra v. Godzilla, or the epic battle over Manhattan sales volume reports

Apr. 14, 2008

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: barbanel, corcoran, curbed, market report, miller samuel, ny times, quarter, terra, volume

More on the difference between reported sales volume in different first quarter Manhattan residential real estate market reports, now at the level of a true dispute, complete with trash-talking.

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more actual data / November sales in Manhattan more or less steady

Dec. 18, 2007

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: barbanel, closed sales, november 2007, ny times, prices

My take [on the Manhattan real estate market report] is that this indicates that sellers are holding firm (as firm as before, at least) and that (at least some) buyers are willing to meet sellers there. So the (fewer) deals that got done in November got d

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