Real Estate

Four Open Houses Ripe for Renovation to See This Weekend

If you’re looking for a turnkey, this is not your week. The winter months are a better time to shop for wrecks in need of restoration — with the choice places gone or waiting for spring, there’s not a lot else out there. So it is with this week’s picks, which all need some meaningful…

by Chris Erikson

12/11/2015 3 minute 0

So it is with this week’s picks, which all need some meaningful attention. They’re found in Crown Heights, Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and South Midwood.

On Maple Street in PLG is a single-family, Axe Hedman–designed limestone with a lot of detail, which could be quite a looker with a little overhauling. Or make that a whole lot of overhauling. The condition is a little hard to get a handle on with this one — some of it doesn’t look that bad, but the floors are such a wreck that it begs the question of exactly how they got that way short of an assault team with crowbars.

In Crown Heights on Lincoln Place is another restoration project, with reported details including coffered ceilings, wainscoting, pier mirrors and original woodwork. There are no photos, but the listing warns that the house — which has been in the same family for 50 years — needs a “complete renovation,” minus the year-old roof and new front windows.

Our next renovation special is on Degraw Street in Park Slope, where we find a four-story brownstone, set up as an owner’s lower duplex with a pair of one-bedroom apartments on the floors above. Photos and details are both scant. What little is depicted doesn’t look that bad, but the admonition to “bring your architect” suggests serious issues elsewhere.

Last up is a fully detached one-family with a center staircase on Bedford Avenue in South Midwood. It’s in the best shape of the lot, but at the least it requires updated kitchen and bathrooms. It’s got original mantlepieces, wainscoting, stained glass and a two-car garage.

139 Maple Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Price: $1,600,000
Broker: Corcoran (Daniel Cohen, Noemi Bitterman)
Sunday 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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1167 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights
Price: $999,000
Broker: Corcoran (Joseph Dima, Josiane Lysius)
Sunday 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Photo by Nicholas Strini for PropertyShark
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