House of the Day: 344 Carlton Avenue
Today’s listing at 344 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene is a good example of how to do a listing right: Plenty of well-photographed photos, a floorplan and a comprehensive description. Pretty simple but some brokers still are too lazy or incompetent to do it. Of course, it helps when you have a good product to…
Today’s listing at 344 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene is a good example of how to do a listing right: Plenty of well-photographed photos, a floorplan and a comprehensive description. Pretty simple but some brokers still are too lazy or incompetent to do it. Of course, it helps when you have a good product to pitch, which is certainly the case with this five-story, two-family brownstone at the epicenter of Fort Greene. Will it fetch the asking price of $2,500,000? Hard to say, but it’ll certainly get close to that. It’s in beautiful shape with tons of historic character with tasteful touches of modern convenience. (We like the kitchen, for example.) There’ve been no takers since it hit the market a couple of weeks ago. Have any readers checked it out?
344 Carlton Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
12:26 pm:
You wanna bet?
I sold a house on that block a year and half ago for 750K in immaculate shape.
You say it is worth how much?
Sold a shell two years ago for 450K
twenty five wide. We don’t like houses that are less than twenty ft, really we don’t like things under 22 ft. Otherwise it is just too dark and well cramped with that staircase taken away fifteen percent of your living space on the lower floors.
Market has changed, won’t sell for that.
Maybe that’s the right price in two years
Stop the hyping. The amrket makes the price. Not some kid from, where are you from agian?
The consensus from a lot of people who actually saw this house is that it is need of work that it was fixed up in an okay way, but not a fancy enough way to justify what many buyers are looking for at this price. But that said the price doesn’t seem expensive on a price per sq foot or a price per floor basis. But it is still 2 and a 1/2 million hard-earned dollars.
So they should make more family, and stay there! i always hate to see people leaving. Especially after they did a really nice job on the place. But this ain’t Europe. Everyone’s just passing through . . .
sorry 2:31pm i get lazy and leave proof-reading to the ‘edit’ button but of course there is no edit button.
Yes I think anyone buying this at 2.5, although nervous now, will look back on their decision as a very good one.
I believe the owners are downsizing, a family of 4 cannot really use such space even setting aside guest rooms.
It is true that the kitchen is not a huge country kitchen, now that I come to think about it… But big country kitchens tend to be in garden extensions, not parlour floors. Perhaps a drawback for home cooks. There are a couple of other very minor drawbacks i won’t bore anyone with. It is rare you can find a big brownstone with only a couple of small negatives.
THANK YOU 11:25 am. Your summary seems to actually reflect the building that’s shown in the pics.
I think you meant that in 5 years, the house will have seemed well-priced, not that it will “look cheap” — it appears to me like this house is gonna continue to look expensive for a long long time, assuming no idiots get a hold of it and annoint it with irreperable design “decisions” du jour.
It’s just such a shame that these people owned it for only four years and are now leaving.
ps
It’s not extremely expensive or destructive to widen the flus, but it is a dirty job. if you’re buying this house, one or two real fireplaces wouldn’t hurt.
I have just read through roughly 71 posts about this property and it seems that perhaps 1 person has actually visited this place. When someone does, can they post some useful, clear information?
If anyone still cares i saw it over a week ago. No it doesn’t have working fireplaces but it is extremely expensive and destructive to widen flus and hearths for wood, it does have the original coal whatchmacallits which look great. It has double-glazed windows so is very quiet inside. The floors and stairs make not a sound! It was never a SRO, whomever said that is a shill, it was renovated by the owners who have owned it for 4 years and the house is full of expensive antiques of various kinds.
The paint and moldings and wood are excellent. Whomever is talking about rough paintwork is a troll.
There are two side windows in the kitchen and the back patio, whomever is talking about lack of fire exits in the kitchen is a fool.
It even has an expensive radio to base security system – not that the lack of one would matter at this price.
Someone who can really use 4 full floors is going to end up with a hell of a house, one that will look cheap in 5 years. It is very rare you will find one in FG in similar condition that is not ruined by over-bidding. At 600psf or whatever 2.5 comes out as, it is very good value. Unless you think FG is going to go backward for some reason (global recession?) then I think it will appreciate at least 10% a year for a few more years yet.