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new loft price needs to be justified

September 3rd, 2009 1:33 pm
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

876 Broadway comes + goes QUICKLY / knowing what you can get, and getting all of it

September 2nd, 2009 7:39 am
This "2,500 sq ft" loft on Broadway between 18th and 19th Streets has serious old-school Manhattan loft charm: pine columns, 14 ft ceilings, wainscoting (check the pix for the size of the windows!). These sellers include an architect and they have owned

Porter House loft may be "beyond the beyond" but sells off a million, up 40% or down 25%

August 16th, 2009 10:19 am
The Manhattan loft #3W at 66 Ninth Avenue (The Porter House) was marketed very enthusiastically at prices The Market was not ready for. It cleared on June 23 at $2.15mm, which is a difficult number to put in context. In the context of neighborly competiti

buying high, selling low (ouch) at 114 Spring Street

August 15th, 2009 5:50 pm
Categorized in: Loft neighborhoods / SoHo
The Manhattan loft #2 at 114 Spring Street has (and has had) a lot to recommend it: prime Soho location, "1,900 sq ft", 12 foot barrel-vaulted ceilings, bright lights and cast-iron views, and a renovation described as "magnificent" (Venetian plastered wal

2006 + 30% = 2009? (or not)

August 7th, 2009 8:48 am
Tagged with: 2006, franklin, mint, pushy, renovation
Having visited both 2006 and Franklin Street in Tribeca on Wednesday (Aug 5, 155 Franklin Street crashes past 2006 to close up 28% (since 2000)), a Manhattan loft that sold more than 3 years ago around $850/ft caught my eye. It is in prime loft-ville, jus

155 Franklin Street crashes past 2006 to close up 28% (since 2000)

August 5th, 2009 6:52 am
The Manhattan loft #3S at 155 Franklin Street (the Sugar Loaf) was one of only five lofts in Tribeca that closed in June, per recent articles in The Real Deal Trouble in Tribeca. For a seller who started so far from The Market in October, these folks caug