Architect for this renovation?

Hope you can find the fridge under the oven!! Disaster if it is half fridge.

300,
You mean you think there's a chance the fridge below the oven is a full sized fridge?

Nice looking renovation. Good use of a small space. The architect/designer certainly loves their tab handles (as do I). Did they also tuck a dishwasher in between the cooktop and the oven/fridge? My only complaint is the tab handle on the drawer under the top step to the bed platform, which seems like a trip hazard should you hit it with your foot when going up the steps. But since it's a 5th floor walkup, maybe stair climbing skills will be so advanced that it's not a problem.

Yeesh that price regardless of location plus the maintenance is more in line for a F/S elevator building. Looks like you're supposed to eat breakfast sitting on the floor.

Cute reno but I am so surprised by the price. Lower East Side always baffles me. $18 margaritas sold at bars adjacent to pawn shops. "Art galleries" that are always completely empty, next to crumbling old apartment buildings.

it is overpriced. the buyer should buy something bigger and more expensive

I can see you're not at downtown person@krolic. This is Soho, which is expensive and extremely desirable by many people. Also a relatively small neighborhood, similar to the West Village, where many people are willing to pay a premium. Real estate is all about location.

I would rather rent than buy a co-op or a condo in a building / neighborhood that has weak buyer demand. That's where you get burned most, when you purchase in a neighborhood that's not on the radar of most buyers. If you have to sell into a weak market, your already illiquid asset becomes an anchor. You have to be very mindful when buying into a very strong market and you find yourself priced out of many locations, unable to compete. So buyers start looking for the scraps on the fringes.

And I'm mostly speaking about well-established bland neighborhoods with a long history of mediocre sales. Not those brave souls who went into non-residential neighborhoods or poverty stricken neighborhoods simply because that's all they could afford, and wound up with the golden ticket.

@theburkhardtgroup Actually, you might be surprised. I am on my third career now. I worked in downtown (FiDi and Chinatown) for about 10 years, and we lived not too far from Soho (in LES) for a year too.
It was a newly renovated apartment, 2/2 with a tiny living room, no dining, and a washer dryer, walk up but not too high, about 5 years ago. The rent was 5k, which I thought was a lot then for the number of sq ft, and considering the commute to almost anywhere was not great, but LES area has it's charm. We moved to midtown to a more convenient location and got more space for our money, too.

Keith--curious as to which nabes you consider 'weak buyer demand' areas?

also curious.

east new york?

Kind of a reach at that price point