Manhattan Loft Guy

New York, New York

on matters of interest to Manhattan coop or condo loft apartment dwellers, buyers, sellers, and others, especially about New York City real estate

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• Manhattan Users Guide (be sure to search the archives)

• The Gotham Center for NYC History

• Matrix the Real Estate Economy

• Hopstop (door-to-door subway instructions)

• MTA subway site, including maps + schedules

• NYC Dept of Education site

• NY State Assn of Independent Schools (find private schools)

• cul-cha!

• the local TriBeCa newspaper

• "the weekly newspaper of lower Manhattan"

• Brooklyn, but a great blog

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risk, revisited / I am still a coward, but the 'brave' did not sell (yet)

Aug. 21, 2009

Categorized in: Psychology of the market

Tagged with: demand, inventory, negotiation, plus factor, price, price drop, risk, supply

I recently had a conversation with a former shareholder in one of the Manhattan loft buildings that I visited in my March 25 lengthy rumination, am I a coward? assessing + bearing risk in a risky world, as she was curious about how her former neighbor's l

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am I a coward? assessing + bearing risk in a risky world

Mar. 25, 2009

Categorized in: Psychology of the market

Tagged with: demand, inventory, negotiation, plus factor, price, price drop, risk, supply

I noticed a Manhattan loft recently to market that (a) is a pretty spectacular loft, (b) in a building I am pretty familiar with, (c) in which there is a fairly timely and extensive set of market inputs (i.e., closed sales), (d) that is offered through a

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Manhattan as �fundamentally� different / supply, demand and superstars

Oct. 30, 2006

Categorized in: Market Trends

Tagged with: business week, demand, houston, jonathan miller, matrix, supply

I post lasted week about “economic rent” and how “the fundamentals” must be different in Manhattan compared to most places in America, my theory being that coop and condo pr... [Read More]

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risk, revisited / I am still a coward, but the 'brave' did not sell (yet)

am I a coward? assessing + bearing risk in a risky world

Manhattan as �fundamentally� different / supply, demand and superstars