Given the surfeit of brownstones in the $2 million-plus category, we decided to look more closely at the other end of the spectrum. If you’re looking for something for less than, say, $600,000, one good approach is to avoid the usual broker suspects and look a little more down market to firms that have a bigger presence in the outer neighborhoods. Century 21, for example, has these two places listed in the mid-$500k’s. The trade-off is that the firm is particularly sparing in its sharing of useful information and photos. In both cases, all we get is a shot of the facade and a broad neighborhood classification. The house on the left is a 2-family in Bedford Stuyvesant listed for $565,000 while the house on the right is on Willoughby off Stuyvesant Avenue (the listing calls it Williamsburg but seems more like Bed Stuy to us) for $550,000. With no interior shots its pretty pointless to try to parse the value, though we assume some of the same arguments made about this house will apply in these cases as well.
Web# M06-1702 [Century21]
Web# M06-1786 [Century21] GMAP