Manhattan Loft Guy

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risk, revisited / I am still a coward, but the 'brave' did not sell (yet)

Aug. 21, 2009

Categorized in: Psychology of the market

Tagged with: demand, inventory, negotiation, plus factor, price, price drop, risk, supply

I recently had a conversation with a former shareholder in one of the Manhattan loft buildings that I visited in my March 25 lengthy rumination, am I a coward? assessing + bearing risk in a risky world, as she was curious about how her former neighbor's l

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monthly sales trends for Manhattan coops + condos, per Corcoran

Apr. 3, 2009

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: corcoran, demand, quarterly report, sales, volume

The number that jumped out at me when I got to see Corcoran's Manhattan real estate market report for the first quarter of 2009 (pdf, here) is their count of what looks like closed sales, by month.

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am I a coward? assessing + bearing risk in a risky world

Mar. 25, 2009

Categorized in: Psychology of the market

Tagged with: demand, inventory, negotiation, plus factor, price, price drop, risk, supply

I noticed a Manhattan loft recently to market that (a) is a pretty spectacular loft, (b) in a building I am pretty familiar with, (c) in which there is a fairly timely and extensive set of market inputs (i.e., closed sales), (d) that is offered through a

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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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actual data / 5 years of median sales prices, by size of apartment

Dec. 12, 2007

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: demand, inventory, median price, miller samuel, sales

Following on yesterday’s post about Big Media ‘reading’ The Market (making sense is hard / NYT vs WSJ on The Manhattan Market), here is some hard data about the median price for closed sales in all of Manhattan, by quarter, broken down by size of ap

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Manhattan as �fundamentally� different / supply, demand and superstars

Oct. 30, 2006

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: business week, demand, houston, jonathan miller, matrix, supply

I post lasted week about “economic rent” and how “the fundamentals” must be different in Manhattan compared to most places in America, my theory being that coop and condo pr... [Read More]

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