Big Sale Number for PLG Brownstone
A reader tipped us off to the fact that 206 Maple Street, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, has sold, and it looks like it pays off to be patient! This home was an Open House Pick in June 2009 and again in January 2010 before fetching the original asking price of $1.325 million last month. StreetEasy…
A reader tipped us off to the fact that 206 Maple Street, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, has sold, and it looks like it pays off to be patient! This home was an Open House Pick in June 2009 and again in January 2010 before fetching the original asking price of $1.325 million last month. StreetEasy shows that Corcoran listed the home more recently for $1,299,000 but the deed via ACRIS shows it indeed sold for the higher number. Pretty impressive.
A house directly across the street from this one that really needs a lot of work is or was for sale with some rinky dink nobody broker for 799K. But it wasn’t marketed anywhere at all. Opportunity for putting in a lower offer perhaps and turning it into a dreamhouse.
Booster Bob is correct: other houses on this block which were apparently in need of substantial work traded recently in the mid 800’s. A good value for the square footage.
Although I don’t obsessively follow the local PLG market, this may be a record for one of the relatively small “Real Estate Associate” houses, located on the eastern end of Lefferts Manor’s Bedford–Rogers blocks.
This is a really special house, sold and renovated by it’s talented designer/owner. Similar houses in less elaborately renovated condition or un-renovated shape should be considerably less. PLG/LM STILL offers a lot of value for the $$ [IMO, as an admitted neighborhood booster :-)].
A beautiful house on a beautiful and unique block –
Congratulations to a patient and persistent seller who knows the value of their property and can wait for a buyer who agrees.
I would guess that at a per square foot rate ($510) this is a record for a PLG house.
206 Maple is an exceptional house inside and out. One half of the selling couple was Caroline Beaupere — a rising star interior designer –who did an utterly amazing renovation on this house which was all the talk of the PLG House Tour in 2008. Every now then, even in PLG, a house gets what it deserves. Obviously, that’s what happened in this case — to the tune of 1.325M.
And, DH, I gotta agree with BHO: That bit of pwning was, uh. . . priceless? LMAO.
It’s a great time to sell. Buying? Not so much.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Awesome commentless PWNING, dirty’.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Whataya know? It sold!
I’m not surprised. LM houses (in mint condition) have consistently sold for over 1M for some years now.
By 11217 on January 29, 2010 3:35 PM
Crunchy Granola:
Since the PLG house has been for sale for nearly a year, how is it that you’ve deduced that it’s priced well?
To me, that is the very definition of NOT priced well. At least not priced well to sell.
There’s fabulous architecture in Detroit too, but some homes there are selling for $25,000.
The house on Maple is priced very aggressively for the neighborhood from what I can tell. Clearly too aggressively. Or else it would have sold.