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Manhattan overall inventory down March-to-April (slightly)

May. 14, 2009

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: inventory, miller, miller samuel, spring, trends, wall street journal

The Wall Street Journal's on-line article Tuesday about a national trend in a decline in the number of homes for sale in 29 cities was based on a source that has no Manhattan data, but they seem to have checked in with The Miller: "Miller Samuel Inc., an

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March nugget / PruDE's signed contracts up for month

Apr. 22, 2009

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: contracts, discount, heddings, miller, miller samuel, prude, truegotham, volume

Long-time blogger / honest agent Doug Heddings has an interesting slice of current Manhattan coop and condominium market data from PruDE's signed contracts files for weeks ending from March 6 through April 3. Here is one nugget: Spread between contract pr

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one sobering data point / 684 Broadway loft sells slowly, reluctantly

Sep. 24, 2008

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: broadway, closed sale, curbed, great jones, light, miller, streeteasy, trends, views

About the sale of #7E at 684 Broadway: Based on this one data point, the very-local-to-Broadway-at-Great-Jones-Manhattan-loft-micro-market looks to be flat or worse, year-over-year.

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

Dec. 12, 2006

Categorized in: economic "analysis"

Tagged with: economix, leonhardt, matrix, miller, ny times, ofheo

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]

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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

Tagged with: economix, leonhradt, matrix, miller, ny times, ofheo, sales data

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]

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