House of the Day: 70 Lafayette Avenue
This Fort Greene townhouse on Lafayette Avenue is divided up into two duplexes, each with two bedrooms, 2.5 baths and central air conditioning. Each unit has its own outdoor space. Its been recently renovated and there are no details that we can see left inside the home. Everything is new–floors, walls, moldings, recessed lighting. It…
This Fort Greene townhouse on Lafayette Avenue is divided up into two duplexes, each with two bedrooms, 2.5 baths and central air conditioning. Each unit has its own outdoor space. Its been recently renovated and there are no details that we can see left inside the home. Everything is new–floors, walls, moldings, recessed lighting. It sold in May of 2013 for $1,300,000 in what looks like an estate sale. It’s asking $3,499,000, quite a windfall for the seller, but that is not out of line with what townhouses are selling for in Fort Greene these days. What do you think of it?
70 Lafayette Avenue [Elliman] GMAP
Brooklyn is so out of control these days, the gentrifiers are getting re-gentrified.
or just plain gentrified.
This is of course way over priced for what it is and where it is, which is basically in the middle of commercial Fort Greene with busy bus and truck traffic belching fumes in your front and the Smoke House restaurant and commercial A/C’s disturbing your zzzzzzzzzzzzz’s in the rear.
Top all that off with a self certified crap job that is crying out for an audit and any buyer by any normal criteria would need their head examined by normal standards.
But these are not normal standards; listing it with Brokers that list property in Miami Beach, The Hamptons and 5th Ave with Central Park Views …..& a building that probably should have taken advantage of its commercial zoning over lay…….it will sell to someone that has read about Fort Greene while sitting in a café or on a beach in a distant land and be convinced this is a good deal!
Like the couple from Paris that way over paid for another small cottage on Lafayette Ave this year!
How some Brokers sleep at night…….. and we all have to live with the pissed off attitude.
You can buy a 5 story version of this place w parking a few blocks over in Clinton Hill for well under $3m so bring out the chopping block on that ask kids.
^ Clearly professionals handling this one… ;-/