114 Liberty Street
Financial District, cross streets: Trinity Pl/Greenwich St
WEB #: 678950

Luxury Penthouse duplex condominium 7,000 interior sqft + 3 terraces 4,000 exterior sqft. Incredible living and entertaining space that must be seen - 4+BR/5 and 5BTHS. 40 windows with 4 exposures! 12' ceilings, 2 eat-in-kitchens, dining room, laundry room, library with wood-burning fireplace, walk-in-closets, lots of storage, jacuzzi bathrooms

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Don't miss out on this opportunity to be first in for these condo lofts in the ever-expanding neighborhood of East Williamsburg. A beautiful prewar factory building converted into luxury lofts with sleek, simple and elegant design.

8 stops outside of Manhattan and steps away from L train, Wy 101 Lofts set the standard for affordable fine living.
Price range: $555,000-$790,000

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This map from Trulia shows some listings on the Upper West Side

In the last two weeks, two powerful new Web-based tools have launched in the hopes of simplifying the home-buying and selling process. Both put vast amounts of new data into your hands and both are fun to use, but both have major kinks.

As Prudential Douglas Elliman President & CEO Dorothy Herman told Newsday's Randi Marshall in a hard-hitting article about Zillow, consumers might choose to use it as an information tool, a starting point for a future purchase - or simply for fun, but "I certainly wouldn't price my house based on that."

Zillow
What it does: provides free, instant valuation data for homes
Biggest plus: the promise of informational power at your fingertips
Biggest minus: data is incomplete, especially in Manhattan–where co-op sales data is not publicly available (co-ops make up about 80% of the Manhattan market)

Trulia
What it does: aggregates all listings of homes for sale from various brokerage Web sites
Biggest plus: a joy for anyone who loves real estate
Biggest minus: software misses a huge number of the available homes in NY

Summary
These tools are fun to use and might help you learn something about the real estate market, but they are no substitute for actual knowledge. By showing how hard it is to provide the expertise that good real estate agents carry around in their head, it proves that agents are irreplaceable after all.

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