MULTIPLE BIDS FOR WEST VILLAGE APARTMENT

Posted on October 26th, 2013 A rather nice apartment with a large terrace located at 99 Jane Street, designed originally by CookFox architects to be a rental building, came on the market last week for $8 million. By the end of the week, a contract was signed after multiple bids for shy of $10 million……about 25% over the asking… [Read More]

150 CHARLES CONTINUES GROWING

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on October 21st, 2013 150 Charles Street, the CookFox-designed, Witkoff-developed condominium in the West Village that achieved the largest, fastest sell-out in history ($3/4 BILLION in 3 months!)keeps growing….

150 CHARLES STREET: HALF A BILLION IN SALES IN 4 WEEKS

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on March 16th, 2013 The New York Times ran an article for this weekend’s REAL ESTATE section talking about the ‘Downtown Spring awakening’:  150 Charles Street, the Witkoff Group developed, CookFox-designed building in the West Village achieved over HALF A BILLION in sales in 4 weeks, certainly a record for New… [Read More]

NEW YORK NEW DEVELOPMENT: THE NEXT CHAPTER

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 12th, 2013 In the coming weeks and months, over 7,000 units of new construction LUXURY apartments will be coming to the market in New York……that is a VAST number of units and will significantly alter the bland inventory landscape we are currently experiencing. While one could argue that the… [Read More]

GREENWICH VILLAGE: THE GILDED GHETTO?

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 5th, 2012 This month Vanity Fair termed Greenwich Village the “GILDED GHETTO”:  is this the appropriate description of the neighborhood everyone, including foreigners, Uptowners and Downtowner’s, agree is the ultimate New York living environment? The area’s unique combination of (guaranteed) low lying buildings that provide the best light in… [Read More]

SEX AND THE CITY HOUSE RE-SELLS: IMPORTANT TOWNHOUSE MESSAGE?

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on April 24th, s012 The 64 Perry Street house noted for its appearance on ‘Sex and the City’ has re-sold (after the original buyers won an intense bidding war 6 months earlier) for $ 9.85million. The house had traded above the asking price 6 months ago (and again it traded this… [Read More]

WEST VILLAGE CONTINUED STRENGTH

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on June 2nd, 2011 The penthouse at 2 Horatio just went to contract for over $ 4,000/sf: Granted it was gut renovated, has spectacular views and significant outdoor space, but 2 Horatio is not exactly considered a trophy building. It is a co-op with lovely apartments, although most are rather ordinary…. [Read More]

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: I WAS WRONG!

Posted by Leonard Steinberg on March 20, 2011 For years I said the upscale Manhattan crowd would never travel ALL THE WAY to Brooklyn to live in what are arguably neighborhoods as refined and desirable as the West Village, Tribeca and the Upper East Side: I was wrong. About 3 years ago, a friend of… [Read More]

HUDSON BLUES….

In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the next stage in the saga of the building HUDSON BLUE at 423 West Street is reported: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704017904575409722058648014.html This building, located a few doors down from the 3 Richard Meier Towers, home to celebrities Calvin Klein and Hugh Jackman, somewhat emulating their glass and white steel facade, has been… [Read More]

Marth Meier?

  It appears that the continued buying spree in the third Richard Meier Tower in the West Village may not be the work of Alexa Stewart, the daughter of Mighty Martha…. Rumor has it Alexa is the name on the deed, but the enormous (and growing) space is indeed for the diva herself, once the… [Read More]