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RE: are they fooling only each other? / 3 neighbors push, 1 smiles
One of the mitigating factors may be how long each...
RE: are they fooling only each other? / 3 neighbors push, 1 smiles
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RE: drip, drip, drip in Tribeca / the sound of price dropping (bird NOT chirping?)
nope, Jess. This one is now asking 20% above a 34...
RE: drip, drip, drip in Tribeca / the sound of price dropping (bird NOT chirping?)
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creeping Manhattan inventory a feint or more creepy?

Mar. 25, 2008
Categorized in: Market Trends
Over at Matrix, Jonathan Miller links to a chart he did for Crain’s New York Business showing that the number of coops and condos available for sale in Manhattan has gone up 15% from the end of December to the end of February, though still at relative h

seasonality of Manhattan inventory, not so much

Mar. 18, 2008
Categorized in: Market Data - reports
Does Manhattan coop and condo inventory follow calendar patterns? Not so much....

conflicted about new loft at 20 N. Moore Street [CAUTION: conflict alert]

Mar. 8, 2008
#8E at 20 N. Moore Street is pretty new to the market (week before last), asking $3.45mm and $1,700/mo for "2,400 sq ft". I'd have blogged about it last week BUT it is my listing and I wanted to make sure that the sellers were comfortable with me doing a

“jittery” = word for the day

Aug. 14, 2007
Categorized in: Psychology of the market
bring down the duck The really old among you will remember that Groucho Marx TV show from about (forty-five?) years ago (and the really old without CRS will remember the name of it – You Bet... [Read More]

how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old Meme-y

Dec. 19, 2006
Categorized in: internet and blogosphere
getting memed in the blogosphere brings us all together? I have been memed by Maureen McCabe at Columbus Best Blog, which makes me a meme-in-law of Joseph at Sellsius. As Joseph says: A me... [Read More]

value, prices & data / theory, flaws & spin in Manhattan apartment prices

Dec. 12, 2006
Categorized in: economic "analysis"
bothered by smart guys The David Leonhardt Economix column in last week’s NY Times business section, What Statistics On Home Sales Aren’t Saying, has been bothering me. I blogged about... [Read More]

data are limited (point taken), but what next / NY Times column about the flaws in reported housing data

Dec. 8, 2006
Categorized in: Market Trends
Economix mixes data and opinion to complain about data David Leonhardt’s thoughtful “Economix” column this week in the NY Times highlights the conundrum of home price statistics,... [Read More]

sorry, wrong number (but still ironic) / Miller corrects the record

Dec. 8, 2006
Categorized in: Market Data - aggregators
year-over-year number different than quarterly decline Jonathan Miller points out on his Matrix that the NY Post article I quoted yesterday (Manhattan Bumps Real-Estate Slump) used the wrong media... [Read More]

pseller psychology pstuck pso psales psuffer?

Nov. 10, 2006
Categorized in: Psychology of the market
Tagged with: ego, matrix, psychology, urban digs
Sellers are slow to adapt to current conditions, say some Jonathan Miller on Matrix started a chat about seller psychology, expressing the view that (in general) sellers have not accepted the curr... [Read More]

NAR pumps up the volume / the politics of boosterism

Nov. 6, 2006
Categorized in: Psychology of the market
The National Association of Realtors® ran the first of six full page large newspaper ads last week about now being a great time to buy or sell real estate, which has generated a lot of commenta... [Read More]

Manhattan as “fundamentally” different / supply, demand and superstars

Oct. 30, 2006
Categorized in: Market Trends
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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