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Sell your home to yourself

Posted at Rooftop Views by Andi Durbin
November 2nd, 2009 2:04 pm
Categorized in: Home Sellers
Tagged with: renovation, updating
You may want to update the home you're in rather than moving

Handyman / Craftsman in the Greater Orlando Central Florida area

October 22nd, 2009 5:55 am
This is not a story about the work that I recently had done at my home, but more so of the workmanship of the man who did it.

loft developer in default at 654 Broadway

September 15th, 2009 12:42 pm
Categorized in: loft neighborhoods / NoHo
Not a pretty story reported in The Real Deal (last Friday, on line) about a Manhattan loft developer default, CIT Group sues for $12M at Noho condo site. I don't have a lot of any experience running numbers on a development project, but this seems like it

nice price at 40 West 24 Street? (consider the renovation)

September 14th, 2009 12:17 pm
Tagged with: architect, renovation, west 24
When I saw that the "2,000 sq ft" Manhattan loft #9E at 40 West 20 Street closed on September 2 for $1.64mm and that the "2,000 sq ft" #8N closed for $1.7mm on January 30, 2008 I was intrigued. That #8N closing was pretty close to the calendar peak for al

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

did 525 Broome Street get value for the 2008 renovation?

August 25th, 2009 6:30 am
Categorized in: Loft neighborhoods / SoHo
Of course The Market does not care what a seller has to pay, or has paid; The Market only cares about what the seller and buyer can agree upon. In this case, the July 31, 2009 buyer of a renovated loft and the June 19, 2008 buyer of a blank canvas agreed

64 Grand Street closes UP 12% since 2006

August 20th, 2009 7:21 am
Categorized in: Loft neighborhoods / SoHo
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

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

bidding war erupts VERY late, as 49 Warren St gut job closes

August 10th, 2009 12:54 pm
This one is weird.... I began this post in my mind with a headline like "pricing it VERY right at 49 Warren Street" because the StreetEasy listing associated with the closed sale of this loft on July 29 begins on June 6 at $1.3mm, with an apparent contrac

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

bowing to the inevitable price drop, but 25% impresses

August 4th, 2009 11:32 am
Speaking of lovely Manhattan lofts (as we were last week, July 31, why isn't a Tribeca premium renovation worth at least 250/ft?) with pricing difficulties (as we were yesterday, ditto), there's a new firm and a price on a loft to root for: this baby just

the importance of managing expectations

August 1st, 2009 10:18 am
I am led to these ruminations by a lovely loft with a potentially over-the-top renovation in a prime Manhattan loft neighborhood priced around $1,000/ft. There is nothing in the pix or floor plan to suggest that anything that is stated in the glowing list

why isn't a Tribeca premium renovation worth at least 250/ft?

July 31st, 2009 9:10 am
Tagged with: 1000ft, 1250ft, 2007, finishes, gut, renovation
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

attack of the Killer Comp (when 2005 pricing does not help)

July 29th, 2009 8:38 am
Categorized in: Market Trends
There's a pretty big Manhattan loft in a Chelsea corner that has been patient at an asking price around $1,100/ft for 3 months, which is just slightly less than the loft sold for in 2005. Ouch. It is a lovely loft, full of mints and proper proper names, w