Top 10 Real Estate Listings This Week: Priciest Homes and Tasteful Renovation

This week’s top listings include some of Brooklyn’s priciest stock that’s still on the market, along with celebrities’ homes and a couple of tastefully renovated houses in prime borough spots.

Which would you choose?

10. This famous Arts & Crafts home designed by architect James Sarsfield Kennedy has been on and off the market since 2009. The 5,800-square-foot structure of uncut stone sits on a verdant one-acre lot just a block from the waterfront. With its thatched roofs and endless interior architectural details, the 1916 house is certainly one of a kind.

8220 Narrows Avenue
Price: $10,999,000
Area: Bay Ridge
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Marion Fiore)
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9. This restored Neo-Renaissance mansion is one of Bed Stuy’s most prominent and notable buildings — and its highest-priced townhouse. About twice as expensive as Bed Stuy’s highest price residential sale, it’s also more than twice as large. It’s been looking for a buyer for over a year.

247 Hancock Street
Price: $6,000,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Howard Ramlal)
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8. Also known as Brooklyn’s most expensive rental, this four-story Federal-style townhouse hasn’t been on the market quite as long as some other luxury listings that didn’t sell in 2015. The cast-iron verandah is swoon-worthy, and the interiors have been updated. Interestingly, the home was sold for just $3,900,000 in 2012. It has since gotten a revamped kitchen.

113 Willow Street
Days on the Market: 126
Price: $12,500,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Alexander Maroni)
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7. This two-bedroom co-op in Boerum Hill has a lot going for it, including a pretty gentle price tag. Located in a 25-unit building at 251 Pacific Street, it’s got light, nice finishes and good-sized common spaces, including a dining room.

251 Pacific Street
Price: $799,000
Area: Boerum Hill
Broker: Halstead (Sascha Beicken)
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6. After three weeks at No. 1, this newly renovated Bed Stuy house with a pool and theater finally drops down a few notches. Clearly the renovators here have gone the extra mile in the hope of fetching top dollar, and they’ve priced accordingly, at $1,995,000. That’s notably higher than the average neighborhood flip, and the house is not particularly large.

361 Quincy Street
Price: $1,995,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Jessica White, Daniel Cohen)
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5. This three-family brick Italianate at 173 Bergen Street has a surfeit of charming details and isn’t over-renovated. It’s in the Boerum Hill Landmark District, and the picture-perfect exterior includes the original arched double front door and stone-paved front yard.

173 Bergen Street
Price: $3,750,000
Area: Boerum Hill
Broker: Town Residential (Christian Haag)
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4. Last week’s No. 6 jumps up two spots. In July, Golden Globe-winning actress Michelle Williams closed on the most prominent house in Prospect Park South — a move we would not have predicted for such a famous actress. The gigantic Colonial Revival mansion at 1440 Albemarle Road had been on the market for about a year, most recently asking $2,450,000.

1440 Albemarle Road
Price: $2,450,000
Area: Prospect Park South
Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher (Alexandra Reddish)
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3. It’s hard to find a lot of fault with this one, a beautifully renovated four-story one-family brick townhouse in a prime northern Brooklyn Heights location. It’s even got a garage parking space, and a backyard as well. Spacious at 20 feet wide, with close to 3,000 square feet, the place is in flawless condition, with dark wood floors, exposed wooden beams and three fireplaces, at least one of which is functional.

36 Orange Street
Price: $4,500,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Town Residential (Terry Naini)
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2. This is Brooklyn’s most expensive townhouse listing — ever. The semi-attached Italianate brownstone, built in 1857, was famously home to Seth Low II, who served as mayor of Brooklyn in the 1880s, and later, mayor of New York. Perched on a cliff, it overlooks the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park, with views of the East River, Statue of Liberty and Manhattan.

3 Pierrepont Place
Price: $40,000,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Vicki Negron)
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1. At No. 8 last week, Norah Jones’s Cobble Hill home shoots up to No. 1. The singer, actress and Bed Stuy native was the secret buyer of the carriage house at 172 Pacific Street in Cobble Hill, which was featured in the film Eat, Pray, Love. She purchased it under the name of an LLC in July for $6,250,000.

172 Pacific Street
Price: $6,250,000
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Corcoran (Deborah Rieders)
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