@quantierra

Data-driven real estate advisors

 New York, NY
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Joined October 2015
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Our overbuilt Manhattan data and map won the NY Times a 2017 Loeb award the Images/Graphics/Interactives category xitter.cf/MC_NYC/status/87985291…
Matt AV Chaban@MC_NYC28 Jun 2017
Excited to be at #LoebAwards with my old @NYTimes colleagues. Who'd have thought NYC zoning would be award-worthy? nytimes.com/interactive/2016…

40 Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today (Published 2016)

In Manhattan alone, roughly two out of every five buildings are taller, bulkier, bigger or more crowded than current zoning allows. And often that can actually be a good thing.

nytimes.com
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NYC's bizarro property tax system: effective rates for 1-, 2- & 3-family homes in NYC vary wildly by neighborhood quantierra.carto.com/builder…
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...(which make up most of the red area on the map) for upzonings. De Blasio is not, so he has to push the upzonings on their own merits.
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The reason is likely that Bloomberg was willing (and able, since zoning had mostly not been updated since 1961) to trade downzonings...
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At the same point in his first term, Bloomberg had rezoned much more land in NYC than De Blasio has: quantierra.carto.com/builder…
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Comparable Bensonhurst (Brooklyn CD 11) median price per sq. ft. over the same period was $431, slightly above Bed-Stuy's
$720 psf in Bensonhurst. For perspective, median sales price for pre-war houses in Bed-Stuy (Bklyn CD 3) over the past year is $426 psf xitter.cf/realNYCbot/status/8218…
nyc real estate bot@realNYCbot18 Jan 2017
November 22, 2016: 1650 71st Street, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn – $735,000 – 1 unit – 1,020 sf – one family home
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Unlike large apt bldgs, newly built 1- through 3-family homes in NYC are cheaper psf than houses built before WWII quantierra.carto.com/builder…
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All of NYC has traditionally been under-retailed, but some areas (lighter) are worse than others quantierra.carto.com/builder…
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Where NYC developers would build, if they were not constrained by zoning: therealdeal.com/2016/11/23/t…

The Long View: Here’s where resi development would boom if NYC had no zoning

What would New York City look like if there were no zoning or landmark restrictions? Gowanus could be a skyscraper canyon, the West Village could look a lot more like Murray Hill and the low-rise...

therealdeal.com
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NYC townhouse prices, 2004-2016 (old-timer definition of South Brooklyn – Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, etc.)
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NYC multifamily rental building sales prices, since 2005:
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Quantierra retweeted
The Upshot
@UpshotNYT20 May 2016
40% of buildings in Manhattan could not be built today because they'd violate some law. nyti.ms/20fsQcQ
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We made a map for the NY Times of Manhattan bldgs that the zoning code would not allow today nytimes.com/interactive/2016…
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