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Most of the units in these buildings are going for nowhere near those crazy advertised rents. I explained in another thread how I signed a lease at a 15% discount from the advertised rent ($800/month cheaper than advertised) about a month ago. I looked at several other buildings near Grove Street and in Hoboken and almost all were offering similar incentives while advertising rents that seemed very high for the neighborhoods. A leasing agent at a building in Hoboken that had units available at substantially lower advertised rents than others explained to me that the developers of these newer buildings need to show certain rent numbers to make investors happy, but they don't need to (or have found ways around having to) reveal the incentives included to their financiers. So, the need to flash large numbers in front of their creditors is why they have very high list rents on their apartments but so many units are leasing with multiple free months' rent included, making them significantly more affordable than the ads would have you believe. Alot of the buildings have subsidies from the state and city, and financing has been cheap, but at the end of the life of some of these buildings' loans, the owners may default if they can't actually meet the numbers they need to pay off or refinance them (alot of the buildings have loans that mature at the 10-year mark).
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I have a feeling that the data noted in the article doesn't account for incentives and therefore doesn't reflect real, net effective rents. I just finished apartment shopping and in my personal experience found alot more bargain deals in downtown JC than in Hoboken. All of the buildings that I looked at in downtown JC were much more flexible with incentives than the buildings in Hoboken (many of which had very few units available and were pretty firm on pricing) and so I ended up going with a waterfront building in JC largely based on cost after being able to work out a 15% discount off the asking rent without too much effort. Seems like the buildings in downtown JC are getting nowhere near their advertised rents and are very heavily incentivizing units to fill them...at least at the moment.
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Who told you this? lol....I've been following listings at Gull's Cove and a few other buildings in the past year and a half and prices there are flat over this period (in fact, a unit that tried to sell close to $600k a month ago just dropped its asking to $565k today...really not any higher than prices were 18 months ago). I wouldn't expect them to rise by any significant amount if interest rates keep climbing and new construction inventory surges.
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My point is that there's more value in the waterfront towers in Newport and 99 Hudson Street than at Oakman, yet they'll be priced at the same level. Compare rents for comparable buildings between the two areas and you'll see what I mean (and a large unit renting at $6,500/month isn't a good data point since there are so few units of that size on the market...probably less than 1% of the units to hit the market in the last 5 years have 3 bedrooms). btw - if you check out the minutes from Toll Brothers' last earnings call, you'll see that they expect to price their units at their new Provost Square tower significantly lower than Oakman, and that building is being built in a better location (further from the extremely noisy O'Hara's pub, significantly further from the noisy and busy Marin Blvd).
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Oakman prices are going to have to come way down....Oakman one bedrooms start at $650k right now and go up to $710k, but who would pay that to live in a building overlooking a parking lot in an incomplete neighborhood far from the waterfront when you can buy at the same price point on the waterfront in a virtually complete upscale neighborhood, directly across from a massive park? I sure as hell wouldn't...(not to mention these new Newport buildings will be closer to a much larger variety of shops/restaurants in Hoboken and closer to the mall).
To further complicate things for Oakman sales, you're going to have 99 Hudson starting sales on their 800 +/- units soon. I honestly feel bad for anyone who paid top dollar to live at Oakman...they must be kicking themselves after seeing the article below. They're certainly not getting their money back anytime soon....in for a very very long ride.
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What site are you all looking on?! LOL Zillow is showing 26 active one bedroom/one bathroom listings for $2k or less. Also check out Mill Rocks and Element Flats (both brand new buildings) at the links I posted below. That should give you plenty of more affordable options downtown!
http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/Jersey-City-NJ-07302/house,condo,apartment_duplex,mobile,townhouse_type/60639_rid/1-_beds/0-573066_price/0-2000_mp/40.734185,-74.024764,40.706636,-74.070898_rect/14_zm/ And all of the buildings in Liberty Harbor are offering one bedroom units for around $2,300/month (and they are all full-service doorman buildings with pool, gym, etc.). See - rents downtown are alot more affordable than you all thought! Downtown Brooklyn is far more expensive.
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If you want a cheap new place downtown, don't worry, they are starting to come onto the market. Check out Mill Rocks on Newark Ave at 5th Street and even better, Element Flats at 532 Jersey Ave. The latter has studios starting at $1600/month, which is the lowest price I've seen for a new apartment downtown since 2007.
Here are the links: http://millrocks-jerseycity.com/ http://elementflats.com/
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You know a building is underperforming when an advertorial for it is placed in a prominent online publication (and especially when leasing is described as "fast" without quantitative reference to what a typical lease-up rate is). At the current leasing rate, it will have taken a year and a half to lease up, which is extremely slow (back in 2010, buildings larger than this were leasing up in 6 months).
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As for whether or not we will look back in a few decades and look at this design as an eyesore, there are alot of curves in nature that we find beautiful and so they are a natural influence on architecture. The Dancing Tower in Prague was built in the early 1990's and to this day it is a beloved building:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_ ... ia/File:Case_danzanti.jpg I think people generally value architecture that is balanced, unique, and still fits into its surroundings (as we see in this proposal for 280 Newark Ave).
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Not the worst investment but you'd probably be better off putting your money into a savings account earning 1% than buying a place just to buy a place. There are plenty of REIT stocks that will far outperform that condo in terms of price appreciation & dividends. Put your money into those if you want to invest in RE at this point in the cycle.
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I'm honestly more surprised at the fact that Crown Fried Chicken has a location outside of downtown...I will never look at that place in the same way again.
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There is literally nothing to compare between the two; not that I'd want to live in the building because the neighborhood is non-existent, I will say that when you forget about the neighborhood, Cast Iron Lofts is a full-service property with tons of amenities, brand new construction, modern open layouts, and concrete between floors (great sound insulation), and a leasing team that isn't emotionally involved in the property. No comparison at all with a renovated, wood frame construction row house that requires you to deal directly with a landlord who you'd have a personal relationship with (often not a good thing).
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Some of the incentives are quite substantial.
I don't know if they're still doing this, but 70 Columbus was asking in the $1900's/month for studios; that's a sizable (15-20%) discount over what its 7-year-old neighbor to the east (50 Columbus) had been charging for the same sized space. That discount amounts to just under $5k for the first year and $10k for a two-year lease (which has been offered at 70).
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Isn't the same developer doing both buildings? Maybe you can ask these questions to the sales office for 251 Newark Ave.
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Not to drift off topic too much, but does anyone know how an abated tax rate transfers to a new owner during a resale of an abated property? Are "taxes" reassessed when the abated property is transferred? I heard from someone that the abatement rate (generally 1.65% of assessed value) is applied to the property's sale price when the property is transferred to a new owner, but this doesn't seem to make sense since most assessments are below market value.
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Is it true that a reval will not affect tax-abated properties? Or will they be affected by this?
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Is Art House losing THAT many tenants that they had to put out several fluff pieces? That building was 100% rented a few months ago...
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Good catch - so maybe this is simply a scam of some sort....seemed a bit too good to be true.
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Does anyone know if this listing is real? Cheapest rate at this building since way back when it opened in 2007 (and even cheaper than some class B units further from the PATH - not bad for a full-service luxury building). There's also a 1 BD listed at $2,000/month and a 2 BD/2 BA listed for around $2,700/month.
http://www.trulia.com/rental/32186016 ... 2120-Jersey-City-NJ-07302 Also, looks like studios at the brand-new M2 are going to be starting at around $1,900/month, which is about 20% cheaper than what similar new units were going for a year ago.
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The name of the building starts with a Fifty, and if you want to see for yourself, just check one of the popular listing sites (such as Trulia).
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Well, at least one new building downtown has upped the ante and is now advertising two free months' rent. New construction studios in an amenity-rich building for under $2k/month. And there are still about 2,500 more apartments coming on the market in the next 4 months. Folks, we may very well be entering the rental market implosion (which is already hitting real estate investors who own rental condos downtown).
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Where were all you people who are complaining 10 years ago when both 361 Newark and 380 Newark were approved for 12 story structures (actually a 12-story 361 Newark had even started construction back in 2007, but that was put on hold because of the recession). You should be glad that the heights of both projects were halved from what was originally approved!
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I agree 100%. Slower multi-year decline in prices, caused by 5 main factors: 1. Foreign investors cutting back spending on US real estate 2. Interest rates ticking up 3. Inventory increasing as more owners look to sell 4. Layoffs of highly-paid employees in banking & tech as stock markets stay relatively flat and venture capitalists stop pouring money into startups. 5. Home buyers starting to look at suburbs again for value and schools (I personally know several Millennials that are starting families and have moved or are moving to the suburbs because it costs as much to put one child in day care in downtown JC/Hoboken/Weehawken as it costs to rent a luxury apartment)
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Exactly. The ads they released a few months ago stated "Starting in the $700's"
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All I can say here is check Trulia for listings posted within the past few days, then compare listings posted yesterday to websites of new condo buildings in downtown  You'll see it...I didn't think they'd be doing this so soon but I guess they see where the market is heading.
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Keep dreaming...that's called a rendering.
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It appears that one of the most active developers downtown thinks there may be a bubble. Prices were slashed by about 30% on units in one of the few new condo buildings downtown yesterday.
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I've been in the market to buy a condo and looking at units in the newer buildings downtown (Grove Pointe, Waldo Lofts, Gulls Cove, and Sutton) and pretty much every single one bedroom that's been for sale since at least August was being held as an investment unit prior to being listed. If the investors are all cashing out now, it doesn't seem like there's much confidence in prices appreciating too much further. I've put my search on hold & plan on riding this one out...
I won't go into the risks of buying now in this post because I've been posting about them for at least a year in this thread, but I will say that this is a really really bad time to buy downtown (just look at all the things propping the market up right now...) Just like hotelier Sam Chang talked up Flushing's hot market a month ago and then flipped property he had there, later revealing that he "suddenly" lost confidence in that neighborhood, alot of real estate agents are talking downtown up as a hot market right now without talking about the risks it faces.  (article about McSam's sudden loss of faith in Flushing here: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/10/2 ... g-flip-flops-on-flushing/)
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