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Jun. 18, 2008
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
Jun. 14, 2008
Unlike the Times, the NY Post's weekly feature Just Sold does claim to be about "recent" Manhattan sales, and the report from June 12 includes a loft at The Petersfield, 115 Fourth Avenue, that closed with a deed filed May 1 -- that's pretty "recent", and
Jun. 13, 2008
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.
Jun. 12, 2008
NY Times report of a Manhattan loft sale at 22 Mercer Street is hardly a recent sale. This new condo conversion loft has a long and garbled history.
Jun. 11, 2008
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
Apr. 14, 2008
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.
Apr. 10, 2008
I can imagine a reason for a REBNY gag rule about the listings of other agents that may be in the interests of sellers, as well as several reasons in the interests of sellers' agents. In each case, I believe the rationales to be outmoded if not old-fashioned. But the rule is the rule.
Jan. 20, 2008
Artist looks for Manhattan loft but ends up in DUMBO Brooklyn.
Jan. 10, 2008
Today’s NY Times Residential Sales featured one Manhattan loft, described as selling after 13 weeks on the market with multiple bids. ... Yes, it took 13 weeks for Unit 4C to close, but only 9 days (from July 21 to July 30) to get the accepted offer tha
Dec. 23, 2007
In Manhattan, there used to be sewing machine repair shops clustered around West 26 Street, off Sixth Avenue, and button and ‘notions’ in the high West 30s, west of Eight Avenue, when the Seventh Avenue corridor in the 20s and 30s really did center th
Dec. 21, 2007
The NY Times yesterday announced that I was not alone in commenting on the ubiquity of the zebra rug, in Flash in the Can, about design trends that “got up and went” in 2007.
Dec. 18, 2007
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
Dec. 13, 2007
The NY Times real estate website has 677 “listings” for lofts in Manhattan between $1mm and $5mm. Not all of these are real, of course, as some are open listings for new developments posted by agents scamming for buyers, and some are likely to be ‘n
Dec. 11, 2007
The Wall Street Journal’s November 30 article They’ll Take Manhattan – For Less and the New York Times December 2 article Between Buyers and Selelrs, A Staltemate have gotten a lot of play in the blogosphere, as if they were drawing opposite conclus
Nov. 11, 2007
Data on the October real estate market in Manhattan reported in the New York Times shows that a stable market continues.
Oct. 23, 2007
I usually look at the NY Times obituary page, and often read it. (I learn so much there.) Props to a buddy for pointing me towards it today, before I had gotten a chance to look.
Oct. 8, 2007
I happen to be a big Paul Krugman fan. Krugman is -- of course -- one of the talking heads who regularly writes on the NY Times op-ed page. I find him witty and wise and definitely opinionated. A good combination in an op-ed columnist.
Sep. 8, 2007
I
mentioned 312 East 23 St
#10B ($1.2mm and $1,645/mo for "1,200 sq ft" and new four
weeks ago) in an
open house review August 25, This weekend it is featured in the
NY Times On The Market section... [Read More]
Aug. 16, 2007
I must have been stuck on the subway on Tuesday, too crowded to turn pages on my NY Times Metro section. The last page of the Metro included Death Notices, which I usually don’t read but whic... [Read More]
Aug. 8, 2007
and now for something completely different…
Yesterday’s NY Times included a review by Michiko Kakutani of the new novel Before, by Irini Spanidou, which is set in the dangerous SoHo o... [Read More]
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