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Similar question to the one posted here yesterday about Ditmas Park – how’s Kensington doing?

I’ve been in Brooklyn for about 8 years now and remember talk of Kensington & Windsor Terrace as “up and coming” nabes almost that far back. Now, Ditmas Park has a bunch of new stuff popping up along Cortelyou and it seems that the Oak and the Iris is the only new business in Kensington. I could be wrong about that and am not sure about what’s going on in Windsor Terrace (where property prices are quite a bit higher). In any case, we’re looking to buy a place in Kensington and there seems to be a pretty cool community taking shape – with the CSA, pre-school coops, meet-ups, the KWTneighbors yahoo group and one or two neighborhood blogs. Both P.S. 230 and P.S. 130 seem like really good elementary schools, Prospect Park is close-by. All these things combined, aside from the usual gripes about the F train, paint a really good picture for Kensington. What do you all think? Is Kensington on the up and up? I know it’s hard to say, with the economy being what it is and the recent real estate bubble, but are properties in Kensington likely to hold their value?