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new loft price needs to be justified

Sep. 3, 2009

Categorized in: renovation opportunities + rewards

Tagged with: 2006, mint, renovation, streeteasy

When I first saw the listing description for a Manhattan loft brand new to market (chock full of mints, renovation news, adverbs and adjectives) I assumed that it is priced almost 20% above the 2006 clearing price because all of the broker bragging was ab

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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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11 West 20 Street #2 closes / did they get THAT??

Jun. 20, 2008

Categorized in: Loft neighborhoods / Flatiron

Tagged with: comps, longandnarrow, renovation, streeteasy, west 20, white box

Today's new inter-firm list of Sold & Closed includes the Manhattan loft on the 2d floor at 11 West 20 Street, which is interesting (to me, at least) for a few reasons: (a) it can be either commercial or (when "re-zoned as of right") residential, (b) it s

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(actual) recent Manhattan loft sale at 115 Fourth Avenue reported in NY Post

Jun. 14, 2008

Categorized in: Loft neighborhoods/ East Village

Tagged with: closed, fourth, ny post, ny times, petersfield, property shark, sale, streeteasy

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

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