In the market for your own compound in one of Brooklyn’s most prime areas? Or maybe you just like to window shop? Here are eight of the priciest, most luxurious properties currently for sale in Brooklyn.

Some of the lavish appointments of the properties include impeccable woodwork, elevators, prime views and boat slips.

Some have been on the market for years; quite a few have dropped millions in price. Three are asking $12.5 million, which happens to be the former record for highest price ever paid for a Brooklyn townhouse.

Others clock in around $16 million, slightly more than the current record ever paid for a Brooklyn townhouse, $15.5 million.

To put those numbers in perspective: Consider the median price for townhouse sales in the third quarter was $1.23 million.

Notably, there are two properties you will not find on this list.

A penthouse apartment, No. 16, in Dumbo’s iconic clocktower building at 1 Main Street, has been on and off the market since since 2010, when was asking $25 million. Currently listed for $18 million by Corcoran’s Frank Castelluccio, it entered contract in June 2016, but has yet to close.

Also not on our list is a highly distinguished residence that was, until the end of the year, Brooklyn’s most expensive townhouse. Listed in February 2015 by Vicki Negron, also of Corcoran, it was asking $40 million. The semi-attached Italianate brownstone at 3 Pierrepont Place, 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. (And the BQE, which will soon undergo some reconstructive surgery.)

No, it didn’t sell. The owner is renting out four of its eight apartments. A top-floor, six-room pad is asking $12,000 a month.

8. Willow Street Greek Revival
This large and elegant 1834 Greek Revival house on a prominent corner in Brooklyn Heights sold to a developer in 2014 for just under $5 million, who totally gutted the interior and reconfigured it as a grand and lavish single family residence with a rococo marble fireplace, La Cornue range, jacuzzi on a terrace, wine room, screening room and elevator. It came on the market in August asking $14.15 million; now you can snap it up for $12.5 million.
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15 Willow Street
Debuted: August 2016
Price: $12.5 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Chris Sheller)
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7. Mill Basin compound
Longtime readers will recognize this enormous 23,000-square-foot complex, which has been on and off the market since 2013, when it debuted asking $30 million. The asking price has fallen considerably since then, to $12.5 million, but it remains one of the largest residential properties on the market, with a guest house in addition to the main house, two boat slips, four kitchens, elevators, parking for seven cars, a pool, a spa, an “outdoor pavilion with seating for 40,” a circular meditation room, and a fireplace with a Lalique mantel.
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2458 National Drive
Debuted: October 2013
Price: $12.5 million
Area: Mill Basin
Broker: Douglass Elliman (Scott Klein, Kurt Vikki)
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6. David Salle compound
Artist David Salle created this 10,564-square-foot home and workspace in the heart of Fort Greene by combining an existing townhouse with a 19th-century brick schoolhouse. Part of the massive building has an eye-catching modern exterior. The master bedroom has its own Zen garden. The initial asking price was $10 million, which increased to $13 million in 2015; now it’s asking $12.5 million.
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81 Hanson Place
Debuted: October 2012
Price: $12.5 million
Area: Fort Greene
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Patricia LaRocco)
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5. Remington House
This sprawling, rusticated, landmarked C.P.H. Gilbert-designed Romanesque Revival brownstone on a park block underwent a restoration and conversion from four units to two after selling to a developer for $3.8 million in 2014. It debuted in March for $15 million but can now be yours for $12.75 million. The extra-wide, semi detached home has picture-perfect period details, including a center hall stair with its own fireplace and elaborate wedding-cake plaster decoration.
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838 Carroll Street
Debuted: March 2016
Price: $12.75 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Lisa Interdonato, Raymond Dillulio, Fredrik Elklund)
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4. Columbia Heights mansion
Another Civil War-era Heights home, this showstopper has been on and off market since 2014, when it was asking $16 million. Enormous and full of original details, it’s now asking $14.5 million.
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192 Columbia Heights
Debuted: September 2014
Price: $14.5 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Sotheby’s (Karen Heyman, Alan Heyman)
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3. Willow Street Italianate
Initially asking $18 million and now $16 million, this five-story, 7,750-square-foot brownstone has received a thoroughgoing renovation to Passive House standards by architect Baxt Ingui. Transformed from 11 apartments back into the single-family mansion it once was, the home boasts an elevator, a rebuilt stoop, high-end finishes, and a landscaped roof garden with Manhattan views.
Brooklyn Townhouse For Sale 146 Willow St
146 Willow Street
Debuted: May 2016
Price: $16 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Compass (Leonard Steinberg)
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2. Brooklyn Law School dorms
Another Brooklyn Heights property whose initial ask of $18 million is now $16 million, this historic brownstone was owned by Brooklyn Law School before Trump son-in-law and developer Jared Kushner snapped it up and converted the dormitory back into a single-family dwelling.
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27 Monroe Place
Debuted: July 2016
Price: $16 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Leslie Marshall, James Cornell)
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1. 360 Furman Street, Unit 1131
This five-bedroom condo in Brooklyn Bridge Park has more than 8,000 square feet and views of Manhattan and the East River. It’s located in a 1928 warehouse formerly owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses and converted in 2007. The sprawling duplex comes with a terrace, wine room, game room, screening room, and two parking spaces.
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360 Furman Street, #1131
Debuted: June 2016
Price: $23.888 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Sotheby’s International Realty (Karen Heyman and Alan Heyman)
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