Remember the Times article last week about the reinvigorated real estate market in New York? Well, there may have been something to it. We’ve caught wind of a couple of bidding wars currently underway that certainly show that the demand side of the equation is strong. First up: A 1,350-square-foot, top-floor co-op at 235 Lincoln Place. The first showing on Sunday generated eight bids, six of them over the asking price of $795,000. (Of course, another conclusion could be simply that it was just priced too low.) Meanwhile, over at 218 Greene Avenue (which we discussed last week), the price was jacked almost 30 percent over the weekend. After it was listed at $650,000 on Wednesday, we hear that offers of up to $825,000 rolled in, prompting a swift price increase of the asking price to $850,000. How psyched is the owner. Guess the POS at 220 Greene was not much a deterrent after all.
235 Lincoln Place (#5761) [Warren Lewis] GMAP
218 Greene Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP