Open House Picks: Six Months Later
Comment: What happened on Dean Street? Bidding war? Open House Picks 6/6/08 [Brownstoner] Previous Six Months Later Posts [Brownstoner]
Comment: What happened on Dean Street? Bidding war?
Open House Picks 6/6/08 [Brownstoner]
Previous Six Months Later Posts [Brownstoner]
Looks like they r still buying and buying big.
Claudia Blum, the Colombian ambassador to the United Nations, bought a $3.35 million apartment at 936 Fifth Avenue, at 75th Street. And Bill Royall, president of the college recruiting firm Royall & Company, bought a duplex penthouse at 4 Sutton Place, at 58th Street, for $5.5 million
Miss Muffett : Why do i feel like you live in Anadale Staten Island? tell me i am wrong.
OK, I don’t want to get into a big argument over the past – but believe me, I’ve followed things very closely and this is what I’ve observed. I’m open to someone proving me wrong, but really I’m much more interested in looking forwards than backwards (though history does teach us things).
bkny – I think that makes sense – fringe areas always suffer first. We watched the market in prime Brooklyn very closely the last few years and saw prices go up and up until very recently.
also, i know you can do better than resorting to the bill o’reilly style “prove me wrong” argument.
miss muffett: santa claus is real.
i disagree: there’s insufficient evidence he is real.
z: how do you know whether santa claus is real?
miss muffett: show me the evidence he is NOT real!
denial? i’m not taking a position one way or the other. i don’t know whether prices peaked in 2006, 2007, or 2008, and i don’t particularly care. i was curious as to the source for your citation to “all sales over the past few years,” because i have tried in the past to find good aggregate historical sales data without success.
2008 being the peak sounds rather odd to me. we had a house that we wanted to sell in prime stuy heights in 2006 and we were being quoted nice high prices. we waited (for personal reasons, not to get the highest price)and by summer 2007 the prices started to drop. so we had to hold on. i know it’s not prime park slope but the market started going down way before this past summer.
OK, z and i disagree, can you please provide aggregate trend data proving the opposite to what I’m saying? And sebb, for pete’s sake, we are committed to staying in Brooklyn. In fact, we have brokers calling us back as we speak seeing if we’ll negotiate on some low-ball prices we’ve put out. You guys sound like a chorus of denial.
no, it doesn’t. she told us she knows because her brokers told her so.