Open House Post-Game Wrap-Up

46 Park Place is overpriced at $1.8m. Tiny garden apartment rents at $1400. The upstairs of the house was a bit run down. Nice open living room. Nice quiet block despite proximity to Flatbush, but the home is next door to a large school.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2006 10:47 AM

Went to the open house at 277 Windsor:

http://www.warrenlewis.com/cgi-bin/re/re_show.pl?re_command=show&ID=5194

Quiet Windsor Terrace block. It faces a school which has some scaffolding in front of it right now. Lots of detail in the house, and the garden was beautiful (+ the greenhouse was nice; it was a very calm and private place in which to have breakfast). Nice kitchen space with a butler's pantry. The upstairs rental is going for $1400, which they said was a little below market ($1800), but the house can be delivered vacant.

Negatives: the wood detail throughout the house had that dark, laquered, shiny grandmotherly look which somehow depressed me (it felt a little oppressive, and brought to mind lace doilies), and the ceilings were low and ugly. Some excited prospective buyers there. Warren Lews agents were a bit too controlling -- they wanted to control how people went upstairs or downstairs, but the two agents didn't coordinate well with eachother, so sometimes there was one agent heading upstairs with an impatient group while the other agent was ALREADY upstairs... you think they'd have this down pat by now.

It wasn't the house for me, but someone will be happy there as there was enough space and privacy and interesting detail.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2006 10:55 AM

I also went to 277 and found the highly polished and uber dark wood just too much.

The commercial gas stove was awesome though. But if you love that you can put it in almost any house.

I think that price for windsor terrace 20 footer might be a record if someone takes it..

Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2006 11:26 AM

Well, I also went to 46 Park Place and I think it's fairly priced. There won't be a second open house.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2006 12:06 PM