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August 20th, 2009 7:21 am
One of these days I will do a long post about how The (overall) Market is made up of individual transactions that vary widely from The (overall) Market trend. But not today. Today the news is about a Manhattan loft that is anomalous only if your theory is
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August 17th, 2009 7:54 pm
The Manhattan loft #2B at 161 Hudson Street had a pretty good run through the 2009 market, starting at $2.7mm in March, dropping twice in April (to $2.5mm) and closing June 30 at $2.41mm. That quick history shows that they really wanted to sell, and had a
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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
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August 13th, 2009 7:55 am
Categorized in: Market Trends
If I am reading the listing descriptions and pictures correctly, the very recent sale of the Manhattan loft #5 at 170 Fifth Avenuefor $2.945mm was essentially flat since the February 2007 sale of #3 for $2,972,500. What has been preserved of the third flo
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August 9th, 2009 12:24 pm
Categorized in: Market Trends
There's a lovely square loft newly available for sale in a prime Manhattan loft area that is asking about 10% more than the clearing price when it sold in June 2005. I think this is likely to be close enough that The Marketwill reward it with an offer off
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August 3rd, 2009 8:56 am
The Manhattan loft conversion at 158 West 23 Street started marketing in mid-2007, offering floor-through lofts of "1,865 sq ft" that were offered as open spaces with full kitchens and (usually) (only) 1.5 baths. I.e., not exactly white boxes, but with sp
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July 31st, 2009 9:10 am
You'd think that a stem-to-stern high quality renovation of a Manhattan loft would both (a) cost and (b) be worth at least $250/ft, wouldn't you? There is a loft in prime Tribeca that was gutted after being purchased in April 2007 right around $1,000/ft a
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