NOLITA—A tipster sends in the above curious photo of an Airstream trailer being dropped off at the construction site at Elizabeth and Prince Streets, demanding more info on said curiosity. We've learned that the new 7-story boutique condo building at 211 Elizabeth Street will use the Airstream as its showroom, and it will be set into the ground floor of the building. The whole shebang is being unveiled tomorrow, and we'll have much more to say about this building then. [CurbedWire Inbox]
BROKERVILLE—Dolly Lenz has already made her opinions felt regarding the discrepancies between the Prudential Douglas Elliman first-quarter sales report and the far sunnier Halstead/Brown Harris Stevens report, and now Halstead/BHS chief economist Gregory Heym (who prepared the report) has weighed in as well. In a memo sent to all agents in the company, he wrote: "Last week, we released our First Quarter Market Report for Manhattan based on closed sales and our competitors released their own individual reports as well. One of the other reports stated that the number of sales had fallen 34% compared to the first quarter of 2007. This decline in sales was widely reported in the media, along with our findings of only a 1% decline in the number of sales. The main reason for this discrepancy is how many sales actually closed during the first quarter of 2008."
So how did he calculate it? >>
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