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Manhattan Loft Guy

master list of Manhattan loft closings since November

Aug. 23, 2009

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: closed, data, days on market, google, new development, resale, sale, spreadsheet

It has been quite a while since I posted loft-closings-in-last-30-days, but I have not stopped keeping track of Manhattan residential lofts as they close. While there are many limitations in the data (discussed below), the collection is worthwhile enough

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new listing + sales data OH NOES / (over) optimism stopped by Dreaded Data Discontinuity

Jun. 8, 2009

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: closed sales, corcoran, data, definition, inventory, new listings, olr

I need to ask some questions at The New Firm, but as of now it appears that Corcoran's "loft" category is much smaller than OLR's (as I got only 4 new listings and less than 600 lofts in inventory) and that I cannot (easily? at all??) count loft sales for

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hard data are hard to find ... here's some on 30 days of actual loft sales

Dec. 18, 2008

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: closed, data, days on market, google, miller samuel, sale, spreadsheet

A week ago I set up a spreadsheet on Google Docs as a way to retain and order data that I look at periodically -- namely, recent actual sales of Manhattan lofts. Since then I have been toying with how to share it with MLG readers in a way that will be bot

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loft or not? caution: active ranting ahead

Jul. 10, 2008

Categorized in: what makes a loft a "loft"

Tagged with: classification, data, definition, inventory, miller samuel, new listings

Ever since I began counting new listings and closed sales for Manhattan "lofts" last October I have been aware of -- and irritated by -- the definitional problems in doing such a 'simple' thing.

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Manhattan loft inventory / setting a base line of 745

May. 19, 2008

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: data, inventory, olr

My first useful report about the number of Manhattan lofts offered for sale establishes a base line of 745, with more than one-third from $1 to $2 million and about 70% under $3 million.

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