Manhattan Loft Guy

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176 Broadway has a closing 40% off the original price

Dec. 9, 2008

Categorized in: lofts in 'other' neighborhoods

Tagged with: broadway, closed, freedom, light, sale, streeteasy, trends, views, world financial, world trade

The Manhattan loft Penthouse E at 176 Broadway took ten months but it did close; it also took three price drops from $1.425mm down to $945k, to finally get it done at $850k. Happy New Year (early) for that patient, humbled seller.

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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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fluff (dated fluff, in fact) from NY Times ‘styles’ / remember that rug??

Dec. 21, 2007

Categorized in: general weird stuff

Tagged with: ny times, rug, styles, trends, zebra

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.

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176 Broadway has a closing 40% off the original price

one sobering data point / 684 Broadway loft sells slowly, reluctantly

fluff (dated fluff, in fact) from NY Times ‘styles’ / remember that rug??