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looking for walk-aways by testing the hypothesis that buyers can't close / the lab at The Caledonia, 450 West 17 Street

Dec. 31, 2008

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: back on market, caledonia, closed, contract, failed contract, high line, real deal, stoler, west 17

I started with The Caledonia at 450 West 17 Street because I happened to note a recent Manhattan loft closing there and was curious about the building as a laboratory to check The Stoler Hypothesis about walk-away buyers. The Caledonia turns out to be a t

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facts v. hype / testing the thesis of "little or no sales activity"

Dec. 29, 2008

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: closed, contract, curbed, real deal, stoler, walk away

So ... it is hype to say that sales are taking place because the truth is that there's been little or no sales activity. Let me offer some more hype, then. Looking only at sales of Manhattan lofts (as in transactions reported as Sold & Closed), on average

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disconnect: dumbest article ever? (not saying market is not tough, but ...)

Dec. 27, 2008

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: closed, contract, curbed, east 26, madison square, real deal, stoler, walk away

I would love to hear real data about the number of people who can't drag enough cash to a closing to take title, but in the meantime I will just stumble along with my Manhattan loft anecdotal stuff (about developments such as 15 East 26 Street as an excep

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why so hard to count Manhattan residential real estate sales?

Apr. 15, 2008

Categorized in: Market Data - reports

Tagged with: miller samuel, mitchell maxwell, quarterly report, real deal, terra, transactions, volume

I got so caught up in micro-'analysis' yesterday that I did not get around to considering the factors that make it so hard to get accurate numbers about something as 'simple' as counting the number of coops and condos in Manhattan that closed between Jan

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REBNY's paltry portal launches Friday (yawn)

Sep. 25, 2007

Categorized in: Manhattan real estate business

Tagged with: curbed, real deal, rebny, web listings

It will have taken nearly a year for the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) to bring out its public portal for searching exclusive Manhattan rental and sales listings by the time this thing is introduced on Friday. (THX to Curbed for the reference to The Real Deal’s article yesterday.)

I am not going to go through the entire sordid history here (as I did on May 18 portal potted / REBNY website to limp out in September). Suffice it to say that The Real Deal's report that Bellmarc is not participating seems a bit like beating a dead horse.

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REBNY vs. REBNY vs. REBNY / portal potties still percolating

Dec. 21, 2006

Categorized in: Manhattan real estate business

Tagged with: benepe, manar, real deal, rebny, web listings

REBNY portal wars get curiouser and curiouser (nastier and nastier?) The much-discussed announcement by the Real Estate Board of New York to create an open web portal for members of the public to... [Read More]

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