Opinion

I can barely make out the floor plan but my immediate response is it does seem overpriced for what it is.

Frankly I would be extremely wary of purchasing a condo in a building with so few units. Those common charges will skyrocket via assessments when the building needs a new roof, boiler, elevator maintenance, facade work, etc, etc. Plus, if one of your neighbors defaults you and the other owners will be left holding the (financial) bag.

Remember too that you may be unable to obtain bank financing for in a building with so few units.

Only if it had two more floors to go with it.

$2 million and the best they could do for a kitchen was to carve an area out of the living room?

And only two bedrooms?

Don't think so.

This is a $950K apartment, tops.

$950K apartment is based on your assessment of the average 1 bedroom in Manhattan at $400K which is "fucking EXPENSIVE"?

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/25079-how-not-to-be-an-obnoxious-buyer

Nutty pricing.

What's even nuttier is the $4.9M price tag on the so-called 'penthouse'. Especially considering the developer purchased the entire building in '08 for $5.5M. Outrageous.

Does East 30th Street have traffic from QMT?

And who ever thought it was a good idea to have a glass-doored refrigerator in an open kitchen??

The last thing I want to look at when I'm in my living room is my leftovers in the fridge. ALL THE TIME.

You keep leftovers all the time?

Ha! Yeah, those ratty, grease-stained cartons of Kung Pow and the tins of coagulating sesame noodles sure don't transmit a message of genteel and nutritionally correct sophisticate that we all want our guests to believe we are.

It's joke pricing.

What's the opposite of low balling?

High balling?
no...

Over balling?
no

Big balling?
no

tea bagging

alright alright, this is a family board. unless you're talking about columbiacounty. in that case, i completely understand your lack of self control. my man does inspire a intense passion even in the coldest of hearts.

What's the opposite of low balling?

big pimping?

It is priced as if it were in the West Village, not east 30th street. Nice product though, I could see $1.65M.

Thanks All. I got a couple laughs :)

i'd say $1000 / sf. It's approx 1450 based on the floorplan but approx 150 of that sf is unusable and occupied by stairs and elevator. its way overpirced.

I envy the central air, but that's it. Don't care for the area and for 2 mil I would hunt for a three bedroom. Plus no doorman? No thanks.

"Ha! Yeah, those ratty, grease-stained cartons of Kung Pow and the tins of coagulating sesame noodles sure don't transmit a message of genteel and nutritionally correct sophisticate that we all want our guests to believe we are."

Seriously ... how many of us keep such a pristine fridge that we could get away with a glass door ... and facing the living room, no less.

I don't know about pristine, but I wouldn't mind looking at my fridge contents.

My next kitchen reno - I'm doing a 36" all-refrigerator glass thingey and no freezer.

nyc10023 - no freezer in a new kitchen renovation? Would think that is a really bad idea in terms of resale.

My ideal fridge would be 65% freezer, 35% chiller.

Reverse blend.

Sorry, meaning it was correct as written, that I would like a reverse blend from the usual proportions.

Why? Are you a hunter or something?