Out and About: SoHo lofts come in plus sizes

One of the many fine buildings in SoHo, this one on Broadway.

Not only are some of the lofts in SoHo extraordinarily big, but they are unashamedly expensive.

Moreover, according to the listing broker for one of them, she is suddenly showing the gorgeously finished 3,000-sf condo repeatedly to prospective buyers tied to Wall Street after many quiet weeks since the place went on the market in April.  (She told me May, making me wonder about the veracity of her report.)

In a notable landmark building, the bright three-bedroom condo, which has no wasted space, features 11-foot barrel-vaulted ceilings, expensive Italian cabinetry, countertops and

Weekly roundup of news you may have missed

Here’s your chance to catch up with news and information included to inform, enlighten and perhaps even entertain you.  To read about The Big Apple, check out another of today’s three posts.

A SPORTS STAR WANTS TO JETTISON HIS CONDO

SHE’S MOVED TO COOPER SQUARE WITH A DOG WHO’S NOT A VAMPIRE

ONE OF TIGER’S PETS LANDS A PARK AVENUE PAD

DID A MEATHEAD BUY THIS APARTMENT?

HIS UNSOLD PROPERTY MUST HAVE HIM SINGING THE BLUES

FASHIONISTA STEPS INTO NEW APARTMENT ON LADIES MILE

JULY SALES OF PREVIOUSLY OWNED HOMES PLUNGE, SUPPLY SOARS

The Big Apple Sept. 10

WHILE THE U.S.  SUFFERED IN Q2, MANHATTAN HOUSING IMPROVED

After disturbing Q2 reports were released last month on the U.S. housing market (in “Weekly Roundup” below), the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Barbanel armed himself with statistics to show that the situation in Manhattan wasn’t so bad. Sales of apartments in Manhattan appear to have strengthened this summer, with median prices up, inventory down and an increase in the number of apartment closings, he reported.

“The figures suggest that the Manhattan market, buoyed by a resumption of hiring and a healthy Wall Street bonus season ahead, has so far escaped much of the distress across the country,” Barbanel wrote.  He noted that July’s median home sale price in Manhattan was $900,000 in comparison with $182,600 nationwide.

In a subsequent piece,

‘Realty Digest,’ my newsletter, is moving to this blog

Below, you’ll find three posts that normally would make up Realty Digest, the e-newsletter that I have been writing for seven and a half years.

Realty Digest has been a labor of love, but I came to recognize that it also was a challenge for readers to confront every two weeks.  Also, I have begun to see the newsletter as insufficiently timely.

Starting today and most Fridays from now on, you will be able to view its contents in altered format–a post with summaries of information intended primarily for New Yorkers (“The Big Apple,” below) plus, for everyone, a second post (“Weekly Roundup”) with linked headlines of general interest from a host of sources.  And in “Out and About,” you’ll find my frequently caustic, occasionally witty and always truthful reviews of the properties I visit during the week.

You can be sure to keep up with with virtually everything that is important to folks captivated by real estate if you bookmark or if you subscribe to this blog by e-mail or RSS. For even more up-to-date news, much of which won’t merit fuller treatment here, you may want to follow me on Twitter.

To the hundreds of faithful readers of Realty Digest, a hearty welcome to the blog!  And to everyone else, I hope you like the new posts.

Nothing else has changed: I’ll continue to blog my observations and opinions daily on subjects as varied as broker ethics, auction results and market trends.

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Malcolm Carter
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Charles Rutenberg Realty
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