House of the Day: 226 Martense Street
Like yesterday’s House of the Day, today’s also appeared in Open House Picks Friday but deserves a closer look. Located just south of Prospect Lefferts Gardens in East Flatbush, this classic Queen Anne wood frame house at 226 Martense Street appears to be in move-in condition, yet is relatively affordable, at least by current Brooklyn standards. Recently renovated,…
Like yesterday’s House of the Day, today’s also appeared in Open House Picks Friday but deserves a closer look. Located just south of Prospect Lefferts Gardens in East Flatbush, this classic Queen Anne wood frame house at 226 Martense Street appears to be in move-in condition, yet is relatively affordable, at least by current Brooklyn standards.
Recently renovated, it still has a fair amount of detail left inside, including wood moldings, plaster details, the staircase, a type of parquet known as a wood “rug,” and wainscotting, though it seems to have lost some pocket doors and mantels.
The exterior needs restoration, but the bigger issue, as we see it, is that the house is not as large as it appears from the outside. The top floor is just one room, so although the top floor apartment is technically a duplex, essentially the house consists of two floor-through apartments.
Given all that, do you think the price of $749,000 is fair?
226 Martense Street [Fillmore] GMAP
It’s adorable. It’s a good deal. It will probably be bought by a developer and razed though. Which is sad.
It’s a curious look. It has nice details but it is missing other things that people really seem to want like crown moldings or trace ceiling, window treatments etc..
Does the $ make sense. I think it does. It’s well within the range of being affordable for a first house and has an option for being a LL, but not a requirement (2700 mortgage, 300 taxes, 300 insurance is renting in downtown bk). If you opt to be a LL then it makes even more sense, rent out one of the units for 1600/mo and you could tackle renovations faster.
The location is alright it’s close enough to the park, someone will get it and in a few years that neighborhood will be out of reach in the same way bed stuy is. Look what you can get in bedstuy for <700k http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/house,townhouse_type/0-700000_price/0-2564_mp/6m_days/days_sort/40.698356,-73.918912,40.676098,-73.957579_rect/14_zm/0_mmm/
3 houses. 3 complete gut jobs with zero details in any of the pictures. Bedstuy is fully priced in. There isn't anything like this in crown heights until you go past Ralph ave. Soooo where else are you going to go?