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This place sure is purdy. According to the listing, the four-story brick and limestone house at 49 Rutland Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is one of five houses in a row designed by the architect John J. Petit in 1897. The interior of the 3,500-square-foot house is full of original details—pier mirrors, wood mantels, and ribbon pattern parquet floors—but has obviously had some modern updating in the right places. All good. And what about the asking price of $1,450,000? Think it’ll fly? There’s a pair of open houses this weekend for the curious.
49 Rutland Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark


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  1. I saw this house, 52 Midwood (1.6M), and the completely renovated 3 story on the next block of Rutland, which sold for aprox 1.3M. This one is indeed beautiful. It needs new mechanicals, new bathroom, floors redone, and some other stuff. I’d agree that the block is the least appealing of the three. Comparing the three houses, I’d say this one should sell for 1.35M. It’ll be interesting to see what it goes for. 72 Rutland is a true wreck, and I can’t see it’s selling for more 1.1M.

  2. I also went to this open house out of curiosity–first RE open house I’ve been to in years, but since there was another open house (#72) on the same block, plus an artist’s open studio on Fenimore I (one block south) AND an art opening at a gallery on Rogers and Fenimore (one more block east), we decided to spend a day within a few blocks of home.

    # 49 is a gorgeous house in move-in condition [although I’d think most buyers might want to add a bathroom to the 4th floor] still, I think it’ll go for asking price.

    The asking price for # 72, last week’s PLG HOTD, has been reduced to aprox. the same as #49–a step in the right direction, but IMO nowhere near enough of a reduction for this house which is an estate sale and, more or less, a mess–rather worse that the pictures shown last week indicated–there’s lots more to worry about than plastic slipcovers. My own house was in far WORSE shape when I bought it in 1974, BUT it was priced at 1/2 the amount of comparable LM houses we had looked at, which made it a bargain (LOOOONG story, which I might tell someday).

  3. I went to the open house as well, just out of curiosity as I recently bought a few blocks away. It was a very homey looking place, the center stair made the front rooms really grand in scale, and the second-floor library room was fantastic. A ton of details were still there (I especially liked the pass-throughs with sinks and the butler pantry with a copper sink off the kitchen. The floors looked the worse for wear, definitely would need to be refinished. THe front door was really messed up. But they had made the basement a pretty usable rec room by putting a transparent bulkhead on the front hatch. ANd the block is gorgeous, great trees and plantings. You can’t hear Flatbush from there at all. I’d say it’s worth it, as a comporable house in PS or even Prospect Heights would be well over 2M.