House of the Day: 407 Vanderbilt Avenue

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While everyone else has been at the beach, Mr. Minsky was teeing up his latest townhouse listing, a three-story converted carriage house at 407 Vanderbilt Avenue on the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene border. It looks to us like the interior was completely gutted and renovated from scratch. We’re not particularly partial to nouveau traditional stylings (it feels kinda suburban to us) but the quality is probably decent and this is quite a large place (PropertyShark puts the square footage at 6,500). Nonetheless, the asking price of $3,500,000 seems aggressive. After all, it took the Pfizer mansion at 280 Washington Avenue a couple years to sell and it ultimately fetched only about $3,200,000. And that was back when you could get a decent jumbo mortgage.
407 Vanderbilt Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark

By Brownstoner |