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October 24, 2008

Open House Picks

houseClinton Hill
125 Willoughby Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$1,795,000 (was $2,100,000)
GMAP P*Shark

houseCrown Heights
1278 Carroll Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4
$1,250,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseCrown Heights
1255 Carroll Street
Douglas Elliman
Sat 1-3, Sun 11-12:30
$1,195,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseCrown Heights
1240 Carroll Street
Century 21
Sunday 1-3
$638,000
GMAP P*Shark




Posted by Brownstoner at 1:14 PM | Comments (28)
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Obviously 1278 and 1255 Carroll Street are in much nicer condition than 1240 but could $600k get the latter into as nice a condition?

Posted by: the chicken at October 24, 2008 1:25 PM

While the Clinton Hill place looks nice, and if it turned out to be well done, nice layouts etc., might be a good price, I just done get the bizarre naming convention those two Corcoran brokers always use (in this case, the house is called "Magnolia"). Freakin' annoying.

Posted by: 1842 at October 24, 2008 1:25 PM

It's interesting to see the major price difference btwn 1240 carroll and the other two carroll st. houses. They're only a block apart. Are these true comps? I didn't look at the sizes yet.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 24, 2008 1:29 PM

1842--SO annoying. All of their houses have those hokey names.

Posted by: wasder at October 24, 2008 1:35 PM

Love those crown heights houses with the curved facades.

Posted by: Polemicist at October 24, 2008 1:49 PM

Yes, very handsome houses indeed.

Posted by: 11217 at October 24, 2008 1:55 PM

CH House - large master bedroom with a very small closet????

Also, let's not start with the rental unit living/dining NOT being a habitalbe room. It would have been better if they put the kitchen where the office is and and living room where kitchen is.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 24, 2008 1:59 PM

Those CH houses are nice. I love that centered entrance and curved facade.

Posted by: Adam Dahill at October 24, 2008 2:08 PM

For the CH house, I wonder if the hokey naming gimmick was one thing that put off potential buyers. It somehow sniffs of desperation. The renovation looks pretty generic, and I don't understand why they made the master bedroom take up basically the whole floor when a 2 BR per floor layout would seem a better use of space.

Posted by: Miss Muffett at October 24, 2008 2:20 PM

to MsMuff, BRG, Adam - All houses are 'CH' today - either Crown Hts, Clinton Hill.. only missing Cobble Hill. Maybe need a new shorthand?

Posted by: Petebklyn at October 24, 2008 2:31 PM

Woops, I meant Clinton Hill. Maybe CLH would be good shorthand? And CRH for Crown Heights?

Posted by: Miss Muffett at October 24, 2008 2:36 PM

I know who owns that 1278 carroll St house. Just make a bid, any bid.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 24, 2008 2:36 PM

i think the full-floor master bedroom is actually pretty sweet (or suite?). parents can stow the kids on the top floor and keep an apartment-sized oasis for themselves. in any event, it would be easy enough for a buyer to redivide the floor into 2 br's.

Posted by: z at October 24, 2008 2:40 PM

I've seen floor thru master bedroom suites, this one is very badly done.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 24, 2008 2:44 PM

thanks for pointing out the obvious pete. I didn't notice the Clinton Hill house having a center entrance and curved facade though. But I guess you got me. Good thing I didn't have any spelling errors.

Posted by: Adam Dahill at October 24, 2008 2:51 PM

Teacher you forgot to give us homework.

Posted by: Adam Dahill at October 24, 2008 2:52 PM

I think I'd rather buy the $600k townhome and spend $600k fixing it up to my specifications, rather than buying a 1.2 million home that was already fixed up to someone else's tastes. Assuming I had 1.2 million lying around.

I'm actually pretty tempted to at least go look at that 1240 house ... seems like a decent area of CRH, and my fiancee and I could split the cost with another couple and actually be saving money over what we pay in rent.

Posted by: cwbuecheler at October 24, 2008 3:05 PM

From what I can see in the pictures, it looks like 1240 Carroll started out life as a fairly humble row house, quite likely a two family, and the others were more grand. And it needs work.

Posted by: mopar at October 24, 2008 3:44 PM

well, well, prices seem to be settling down a bit. They are still high mind you, they will settle more, but it's nice to see decent houses listed in the 600,000's.


Posted by: sam at October 24, 2008 3:49 PM

Hey DIBS, are you serious? Like 50-60% lower serious?

That's the kind of level where I'd start putting my offers in at but figured that I'd be rejected out of hand currently and would have to wait another year or so before I wouldn't.

Posted by: the chicken at October 24, 2008 4:32 PM

The Clinton Hill house is lovely BUT no powder room on the parlor floor and no closets -- how do you actually live like that?

Posted by: BH76 at October 24, 2008 4:35 PM

out of curiosity, does anyone know about the crown heights houses from June 27, 2008?

859 St. Marks Avenue
MMM Management

1265 Dean Street
Corcoran

I thought both were beautiful but overpriced at the time (because I listened to the what).

I'd love to buy 859 St. Marks. I can lounge in a smoking jacket and sleep in a stocking cap.

Posted by: slick at October 24, 2008 4:42 PM

well not that low chicken...but its a motivated seller

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 24, 2008 4:43 PM

What are you people smoking in Brooklyn? They must have legalized crack. Do you really think any of those shacks are worth over a million dollars? I guess you don't notice that the entire financial system is melting down. That must just be an inconvenient "detail". The lending machine that made you fools all think you had million dollar houses has been shattered. But keep dreaming those dreams of some fool funding your retirements and fantasies. I just hope that people quit buying into this nonsense before it's too late.

If you want to buy just wait for The Big Crash. He's on his way and he's pi$$ed.

"Ooh, I love a rounded front." I hope you also like a bloody rear. That is what is coming to the whole "Brooklyn is different" crowd.

Posted by: laughingatthismess at October 25, 2008 10:19 AM

I like that new log in name What.

Posted by: wasder at October 25, 2008 4:02 PM

hmmmmm......guess I'm going to have to wait a bit longer then....

Posted by: the chicken at October 25, 2008 4:04 PM

I have to agree with the chicken. When the prices adjust by 50%, we'll start to see some action. I've seen the housing prices double and triple here in Crown Hts over the last 5 years. Anybody that thinks this run up in Brooklyn was not part of the bubble generated by unsustainable govt policy and business practices should go take some finance, econ and common sense classes. In CA, plenty of people thought things were different b/c they have international buyers, great weather, strong economy, limited supply, etc., etc. The run up in crown hts had plenty of input from flippers, liar loans, subprime loans, negative amort loans, etc. FYI, look at 1269 Carroll, it looks similar and sold for 875K in Jan 08, before the Wall St. meltdown. Most of the world understands that prices are falling. Some dreamers seem to think prices will rise another 20% this year????

Posted by: inthehood at October 26, 2008 11:45 AM

Mop:

You're wrong about the rowhouses on Carroll Street and for that matter the houses in that neck of the woods in Crown Heights. Many of the houses were zoned as two families circa 1961, although they continued their original use as one family homes.

As many Brownstoners know, just because your CofO says 2 doesn't mean you use it as such. The homes are lovely and were the seat of the Black middle class in Crown Heights in the 1960s and 1970s. The homes are lovely. This section of Crown Heights. You will have many Lubavitcher neighbors in the vicinity in comparison to a similar block in Crown Heights North (eg. Dean Street between Brooklyn and New York.)

Posted by: BrooklynIsHome at April 25, 2009 3:50 PM

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