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Sep. 1, 2009
The Sunday Real Estate section of the New York Times regular feature by Jay Romano, Real Estate Q&A last week posed a complex question and provided an overly simple answer from a lawyer who represents the Westchester Board of Realtors. I wonder if the law
Apr. 2, 2009
The headline of the Josh Barbanel piece in this morning's New York Times pretty much says it all about the major firms' First Quarter Manhattan residential real estate market reports: Apartments Sell for Less if They Are Sold at All. There will be much t
Mar. 20, 2009
Yesterday's New York Times On Location Home & Garden feature Bringing Light to a New York Loft profiled a Broome Street total renovation ("gutted to its floor joists and beams and totally rebuilt -- with plumbing, electricity and other systems"). The loft
Mar. 19, 2009
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The full history of the Manhattan loft #6A at 50 Walker Street will reveal just how different this marketing campaign was from the loft addressed yesterday (why be that negotiable in secret? 25 Ann Street closed nearly 25% off ask ), but for now (before t
Feb. 4, 2009
I have heard a couple of stories in the last few weeks from an agent and a mortgage lender about how some of the arcana about a Manhattan coop's or condo's finances make it difficult or impossible for a prospective buyer to get a mortgage. Then Sunday's N
Dec. 24, 2008
Both sellers should be happy they sailed through the sales process, of course. And with #3B getting $1,060/ft at pretty much exactly the same time that #4A got $1,075/ft, these two Manhattan loft sellers should be just about as happy as each other. With a
Nov. 30, 2008
Putting an apartment on the market at the same time as a neighbor's can strain relationships within a building. But I wonder about the degree to which competing listings can lead sellers to over-value their apartments. Let's get back to 24 East 22 Street
Nov. 9, 2008
The Manhattan loft at 55 White Street #4C just closed for $2.045mm .... The recent listing history is fairly quick for this market (on market July 20, contract September 15), but the extended history shows this took a bit longer (originally offered March
Nov. 7, 2008
"It" is the Manhattan loft #11F at 80 Chambers Street, a 2002 conversion at the SW corner of Broadway. "It" is pretty big ("3,525 sq ft"), pretty light (36 windows, four exposures), and configured as 4 bedrooms with 3 baths. "It" was offered at $3.595mm a
Oct. 2, 2008
I am not a card-carrying member of the Manhattan Is Unique So Real Estate Price Will Never Come Down party, but I have audited classes in the Manhattan Market Is Different school.
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
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