House of the Day: 476 Washington Avenue

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This house at 476 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill has been boarded up as long as we’ve been in the neighborhood. Based upon the transaction history on Property Shark, we’d guess that this place has been the victim of mortgage shenanigans. The deed changed hands for the absurdly low price of $445,000 in October 2004; that same month the owner took a mortgage of $910,000 and proceeded to put exactly zero dollars into fixing it up. There’s a new(ish) For Sale sign on the facade directing interested parties to call someone named Danielle at Brooklyn Heights Real Estate at 917-501-5700; there’s nothing on the brokerage firm’s website though. The price, we found out, is $1.2 million and there’s nothing salvageable on the inside. Total gut job. GMAP P*Shark

By Brownstoner |