It’s tough out there for a house in Bed Stuy. While houses in some of the more expensive neighborhoods in the borough continue to hold their value relatively well in the face of the national housing crisis, neighborhoods like Bed Stuy, which has had its share of subprime and foreclosure problems, are having a tougher go of it. Take, for example, the case of the 456 Bainbridge Street: The three-story house still has lots of original detail in the owner’s duplex and a two-bedroom apartment on the top floor to help cover the mortgage. It’s been a long, unfruitful sales process thus far. The house hit the market last July for $695,000 and has undergone three price cuts since, culminating with that week’s that brought the asking price to $525,000. Think this will be the magic number?
456 Bainbridge Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
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