Last Week's Biggest Sales in Brooklyn
Here are the top five residential sales recorded in city records for Brooklyn last week. Several House of the Day alums made the list, and the Bay Ridge house was (somewhat surprisingly) the only big-ticket non-brownstone Brooklyn sale: 1. COBBLE HILL $2,563,000 21 Tompkins Place GMAP 3,375-sf landmark building; deal recorded on 1/23. 2. PARK…
Here are the top five residential sales recorded in city records for Brooklyn last week. Several House of the Day alums made the list, and the Bay Ridge house was (somewhat surprisingly) the only big-ticket non-brownstone Brooklyn sale:
1. COBBLE HILL $2,563,000
21 Tompkins Place GMAP
3,375-sf landmark building; deal recorded on 1/23.
2. PARK SLOPE $2,352,000
207 Berkeley Place GMAP
Former HOTD; 4-story, 2-family house; deal recorded on 1/22.
3. BAY RIDGE $2,250,000
8375 Shore Road GMAP
2,460-sf townhouse built circa 1920; deal recorded on 1/24.
4. COBBLE HILL $2,200,000
44 Strong Place GMAP
Former HOTD; 4,000-sf, 22-foot wide brownstone; deal recorded on 1/22.
5. PROSPECT HEIGHTS $2,200,000
202 Prospect Place GMAP
Former HOTD; 4-story, 2-family brownstone listed at $2,495,000; deal recorded on 1/22.
Photo of 22 Tompkins Place by Kate Leonova for Property Shark.
i am 8:39 i didn’t look at the house or property shark but i think it also has an inground pool to boot. i will agree there are more then too many houses that get ruined in a mc manshion style way but there are also many that still are very nice and on the older side including mine built in 1925. my point is so many people on this site judge bay ridge and other neighborhoods that they never been to. i personally love park slope and go out there but i like my block in bay ridge as it is clean and quiet. you know we even have this park that overlooks new york harbor.not everybody thinks it necessary to live within walking distance to some crappy overpriced brunch place or boutique that sells nothing i need or want. and when i do want those things i can always come there or go to the city and get them. actually if i think about it we have those type of places in bay ridge too! overall in truth i like the people in brownstone brooklyn better but that doesn’t mean i wouldn’t trade where i live right now and can’t enjoy both at the same time.
one last point 8:50, that house may have two monstrosities on either side of it but at least it looks over New York harbor not pep boys like the NOVO!
Ditto 8:39 pm. I grew up in Bay Ridge and my dad still has his store on 3rd Avenue. It’s such a nice neighborhood. Good schools, shopping, restaurants, many amenities. I don’t understand why the neighborhood gets such negative comments on this website, since most of the people who come to this website are not born and bred Brooklynites and have probably never even ventured out to the neighborhood.
Actually, the house itself is also pretty ugly. Seems like it’s been substantially altered and modernized in a bad way. I had no idea that nouveau-riche NJ-style McMansions were selling for $2+ million in Bay Ridge.
Hey 8:39–I’m not 11:16. I just Property Sharked the Bay Ridge house to see what it looked like, and I have to say that considering the monstrosities you are flanked by, the price is outrageous. Sounds like it’s one of those Gravesend-type deals but with another sector of the population. The houses on either side of this poor house really kill it. It’s a travesty.
oops one more thing. paying 650 thousand for a 2 bedroom 800 sq foot dump apartment in the NOVO. now that sounds shady to me!
11:16 am about whos paying a 1000 dollar a sq foot in bay ridge. just another brownstoner whos never set foot in my neighborhood willing to comment on it. have you ever been to shore road. do you realize that its one of the nicest addresses in all of brooklyn. do you how rare nice homes come up here. did you look at he comps for the neighborhood. no just another implied bay ridge sucks comment and how can it be so expensive. believe it or not there are nice neighborhoods outside brownstone brooklyn. my question is why more people havn’t discoved bay ridge from third avenue to the shore. and please i know all the shortcomings….”not ethically diverse” meaning liberals of all creeds who think and act the same. (am a liberal). and ues the commute sucks. but why bed stuy over bay ridge, what is it, the restaurants, shopping or good public schools you don’t like. its certainly not for everyone but what place is. all i ask at least visit the place before you comment on it.
Can someone estimate what we should expect to offer for a 4-floor “regular” townhouse in prime Fort Greene that needs a real reno? Like 350K/fl (i.e about 1.4m for a 4-story townhouse)? Does this sound low or about right? I mean, a lot of blah but livable regular houses have hit 2m and above and the big houses have sold for 3m-plus.
Basically, by “prime†I mean anything south of DeKalb and west of, say, Clermont, like a couple blocks to the A/C. By “real reno” I mean, new everything like windows, electric, heat/hot water systems, bathrooms and kitchens but the bones are decent with some details still intact…maybe new interior woodwork around windows and some new doors, whatever.
We have looked at a couple of places and don’t want (can’t afford) the really big houses like on South Portland and the park. And we don’t like the smaller ones on Carlton between Greene and Layette…saw one and its “garden†floor was really only a cellar with windows. We’re more in the market for an in-between sized brick rowhouse like on Lafayette or something.
The backyards in most of FG are not that deep like they are in Prospect Heights but really, it is more the convenience to all the trains in FG and the feel of the neighborhood we like. Truth is, we live here now and don’t want to leave.
Are all prices in prime FG near the trains well north of 1.6 even for places that, frankly, need a real reno?
Your thoughts on:
Is it worth dropping 2m on a basic double-duplex or owner-duplex-plus-two-rentals in prime FG that is in “okay” shape, not needing major reno but needs freshening up?
Are the ones that need full renos going for 1.5m or more?
Is the nabe going to remain “golden†or at least stable through this downturn?
We don’t want to lose a bidding war again!
Park Slope sucks and this sale proves it. Suck it, slopers.
Economists are idiots, they know virtually nothing about what is going to happen. Your opinion as a layman is just as good as theirs.