A home, after all, is usually an emotional purchase, with intangibles like the feeling it evokes key to a buyer's attraction.
But for many new buyers, the biggest attraction of the Gardens is the ease of getting to other places.
If it's installed in a well-designed room with enough space, said Peter Poljan, a senior associate with Corcoran Group in Manhattan, "it can be an attraction: buyers can see the potential that they could work out in their own apartment, and not have to go to the gym".
One attraction for buyers is the access to prime track time.
While bargain hunting is part of the attraction, several buyers said they simply preferred the mercadillos to department stores.
And from a purely economical standpoint, if there's a way for folks to participate" it would be "a win-win for everybody involved". But Peter Broderick, president of the Los Angeles-based Paradigm Consulting and a longtime adviser to distributors and filmmakers, cautioned that price really doesn't have much to do, he said, with the attraction of buyers to on-line indie films.
But it is the group's pipeline of nine as-yet unused casino licences that may prove to be the ultimate attraction for a buyer.
The attraction for a buyer is that the NBA's Hawks, who share Philips Arena with the Thrashers, will be responsible for the arena's bond payments (though the basketball franchise is no longer collateral for the bonds).
Another attraction for some buyers is Novell's overseas cash pile.
RIM's hardware manufacturing business doesn't hold much attraction for potential buyers either.
Its chief attraction to potential buyers is the unusual strength of its backlist of writers including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller and Tom Stoppard.
