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Aug. 12, 2009
Categorized in: Market Trends
The new development at 246 West 17 St poses a bit of a description conundrum for true Manhattan loft snobs, as it is both a conversion of a 3-story loft building into true "lofts" and the addition of 7 floors of ("loft-like") new construction on top of th
Dec. 31, 2008
Categorized in: Market Trends
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
Dec. 15, 2008
There were 23 Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market in the last 7 days and only 9 as sold, in yet another turkey of a week; 14 of the 23 new ones are offered between $1mm and $3mm, while 8 of the 9 closed sales were below $3mm; only 2 of the 23 ne
Jul. 15, 2008
A top-floor Manhattan loft at 130 West 17 Street was the subject of one of my occasional Going For It! posts way back on September 23, 2007 (when I was still commenting on other firm's active listings), 130 W 17 9S is new + really going for it. As in simi
Jul. 7, 2008
There were only 20 Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market in the last 7 days and 29 as sold; 15 of the 20 new ones are offered between $1mm and $4mm, while 18 of the 29 closed sales were under $2mm; 5 of the 20 new loft listings are in the same new
Apr. 22, 2008
Unit #2D at 257 West 17 Street (The Steiner Building) shows up today as Sold & Closed in our inter-firm data base.... The footprint is a wonderful variation on a Long-and-Narrow Manhattan loft layout....
Mar. 21, 2008
I have removed the content of this blog post, as it comments about the current listing of another agent. For information about why, check out end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns? fr... [Read More]
Mar. 6, 2008
I hit on (picked on?) # 9S at 130 West 17 Street when it was new to market in September (130 W 17 9S is new + really going for it), asking $3.2mm (since dropped to $2.995mm) for "2,000 sq ft" and the "possibility" of buying roof rights. I wondered then --
Dec. 23, 2007
there were 14 Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market in the last 7 days, and 23 as sold; 9 of the 14 new ones are offered under $2mm, while none are more than $4mm; only 7 of 18 closed sales were below $2mm; 6 of the 14 new loft listings are in new
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
Dec. 9, 2007
In the last 7 days there were 30 Manhattan lofts reported as new to the market in the last 7 days, and 15 reported as sold; 18 of the 30 new ones are under $2mm; 11 of 15 closed sales were between $1mm and $3mm; only 5 of the 30 new loft listings are in n
Oct. 6, 2007
Categorized in: open houses
a miscellany of Sunday open houses
Sep. 27, 2007
You can walk from Eighth Avenue past Third Avenue on Sunday and see a wide range of Manhattan lofts (and 'loft-like' properties).
Sep. 23, 2007
$1,600/ft coop loft, but
why?
Unit
9S at 130 West 17 Street is a top floor "2,000 sq ft" loft with
a skylight and the possibility of purchasing roof rights, asking a
new-construction-like Manhattan... [Read More]
Sep. 14, 2007
Categorized in: open houses
(remember to check the agent
websites Sunday morning to see if open house is still
on)
49 E 21 St
#4A
$1.89mm and $1,709/mo (condo) for
"1,375 sq ft" in the former UFT building
new to market Labor... [Read More]
Sep. 8, 2007
(remember to check the agent
websites Sunday morning to see if open house is still
on)
#4A at 251
West 19 Street
$2.1mm and $1,478/mo (condo) for "1,653 sq ft" of
newly reduced loft (Sept 2:
pric... [Read More]
Aug. 17, 2007
Categorized in: open houses
(remember to check the agent websites Sunday morning to see if open house is still on)
15 W 17 St
This is another development marketed by Halstead’s Charles Hawkins (see 137 Duane in tod... [Read More]
Jul. 6, 2007
Categorized in: open houses
loft open houses Sunday, July 8 from $1.3mm to $1.8mm
(remember to check listing Sunday to make sure it is still on)
241 W 36 St #6R
$1.3mm
“1,700 sq ft” “renovated”... [Read More]
May. 22, 2007
raw loft space at $700/ft
I blogged about the 3rd fl unit at 17W 17 St when I saw three West 17th Street lofts within a short time in December (selling West 17th St / 3 very different lofts almost... [Read More]
Mar. 15, 2007
Mick Jagger was uncharacteristically understated back in the day:
You can’t always get what you want/
but if you try – sometimes /
you just might find /
you get what you need... [Read More]
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