Condo of the Day: 802 Dean Street, #101
This ground-floor duplex at 802 Dean Street in Crown Heights looks well priced on a per-square-foot basis: For the asking price of $995,000, you get 1,500 square feet of interior space plus a big back yard. The only catch (in addition to having windows right on the sidewalk) is that two-thirds of the indoor space…
This ground-floor duplex at 802 Dean Street in Crown Heights looks well priced on a per-square-foot basis: For the asking price of $995,000, you get 1,500 square feet of interior space plus a big back yard. The only catch (in addition to having windows right on the sidewalk) is that two-thirds of the indoor space is below grade. There’s an open house Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m.
802 Dean Street, #101 [MNS] GMAP
You’re right, maybe just 2. One upstairs facing the street, so you can never have your blinds down, and one downstairs. And an open sitting area/guest bedroom downstairs for when you need one.
I still see this selling for $800+k. i think the backyard is key to that price.
Backyard is awesome. But upstairs bedroom is tricky: on street (with bus stop right there), and right next to front door.
If you look at the floorplan, you could actually carve out 3 bedrooms. The rooms won’t get hardly any light if you want any privacy. But the location is decent on the other side of Washington, its zoned for Ps9 and there’s a nice backyard.
Would I pay $1m for it, no. But i could see some parents who are feeling priced out of Brooklyn who would.
Where are you putting the three bedrooms? Can’t do them all downstairs because of stairwell access, no?
What I”m interested in really is seeing what the newly built townhouses (828-832 Dean Street) on this same block will go for. They are listed at $3.5 million each (they won’t go for that price), but when they do sell, they will likely represent a record for the block (some Pacific Street properties between Washington and Grand are also selling for very nice prices).
It’s relatively new (as in the last 5 years or so).
Moonface, this studio will likely sell for below that price, but that’s besides the point (indeed, plenty of condos are selling for less than $1,000,000 in what you would consider “Prospect Heights proper.” Moving on: firstly, this area is Prospect Heights in my opinion (Prospect Heights for me ends at Classon, which is where Prospect Heights High School campus is located and is what many who lived in the area before Prospect Heights became the “it” neighborhood referred to as PH.
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Second, even if you’re a modern neighborhood boundary purist, let’s be clear here: this condo is, what, 150 feet from Prospect Heights “proper” and, for that reason, will always command higher prices than most of Crown Heights “proper.” The blocks of Pacific through Prospect between Washington and Grand (I’d go all the way to Classon, though some real estate agents try to stretch to Bedford, which is insane) are, for real estate purposes, Prospect Heights AND will sell for Prospect Heights prices, not Crown Heights prices.
Alas, that is the issue, and why they’ve had to keep dropping the price. There is no bedroom, and the layout/existing infrastructure makes it hard to do any optimal conversions.