House of the Day: 315 Garfield Place
Probably the nicest house for sale in Brooklyn right now, 315 Garfield Place hit the market last September asking $8,500,000 and was reduced to the current price of $7,750,000 back in June. While that’s a tough number in this market (or any, really), consider that the 26-foot-wide brownstone has almost 7,000 square feet of space…
Probably the nicest house for sale in Brooklyn right now, 315 Garfield Place hit the market last September asking $8,500,000 and was reduced to the current price of $7,750,000 back in June. While that’s a tough number in this market (or any, really), consider that the 26-foot-wide brownstone has almost 7,000 square feet of space and has been immaculately renovated. Still, at this rarified price point, it’s more about whether some banker or movie star is going to fall in love and have to have it than rationally comparing it to price per square foot comps around in the area. And given that the current owners paid less than $4 million for the house (pre-renovation, presumably) back in 2006, they can probably afford to be patient.
315 Garfield Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Closing Bell: 315 Garfield Place, The Movie [Brownstoner]
I walk couple days a week home from manhattan east 40’s to near Bergen St station on Smith in 1 1/2 hours (using Manhattan bridge).
Nomi, so funny.
“As Minard Lafever said, however, I can walk from home to City Hall in Manhattan in 45 minutes, via the Brooklyn Bridge, which is how I commute home most nights, and for which purpose proximity is key for me.”
Man, you guys are some slow walkers. Bridge is 1.2 miles, I make it in 20 minutes flat, can go faster and cut it down to 17 if i’m in a hurry. Manhattan Bridge about 22 mins,.
“Michelle Williams and the former Heath Ledger . . .” (11217)
There’s something wrong with this wording. He’s dead, not a newly married society girl.
International diplomats don’t use the loo during dinner parties. They pee in the bushes on the way to and fro.
Okay, guess I’ll be the contrarian here.
This house is – for this amount of scratch – rather unremarkable.
Sure it’s big, but the facade is boring, the stoop is a yawn, the doorway is unremarkable, and the interior detail is underwhelming.
Where’s the WOW?
Then I would run for office, because to those to whom much is given, much is expected.
With digital cameras these days I bet there’s a lot of porn filmed in many homes these days, 11217. In fact just last night, oh, never mind.
Quote: ***keep chuckling over this one. My thinking is that buyers at this price point are not wasting any time online looking at photos! More likely than not, the chosen brokerage is dealing with the prospective high end buyer via the buyer’s personal assistant(s), etc. At the point the prospective buyer gets directly involved, there’s no need to look at online photos to figure out if the house is a match. Instead, it’s on a list of 2 or 3 “A” list properties which have been thoroughly vetted by the “service class.”***
I think you’d be surprised. If the buyers are old money or just old, then you’re right. But do you think the Google millionaire who bought the Connelly mansion didn’t spend days researching the house, using Zillow, PShark, Gmaps, etc.? The same goes for some controlling young rich hedge fund type. The new money and younger types want information NOW and access to lots of pictures, floorplans, data, etc. In any event, I think it does the sellers a disservice to restrict information and assume an assistant will do the homework.