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In a sign of the times, this five four-story brownstone at 872 Park Place in Crown Heights sold for $525,000 at the end of 2004 and now has a lien of $600,000 on it. The 3,600-square-foot, four-unit building is scheduled to be auctioned on Thursday at 3 p.m. at 360 Adams Street. Or you could try to go straight to Wells Fargo’s lawyer at 718-204-2400.
872 Park Place [PropertyShark] GMAP


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  1. nah, by “that” i meant foclosures mixed in with top of the market buys throughout the neighborhood. i know several recent buyers in bedstuy who paid in the 800k range and have seen mutliple houses on surrounding blocks go into foreclosure over the past 6 months or so. these foreclusures kill the market value in the area. you’d need to watch sale prices in the area this year and next to gauge the effect.

  2. 11:48 – maybe some straws in there, but many legit transactions that won’t go to foreclosure, but will suffer significant drops in market value. not all that different than what you’re seeing in bedstuy now. however, encouraging to see that lefferts has been able to seemingly buck that trend thus far.

  3. how about getting a job in europe and commuting from your home in the US everyday? c’mon, what do you think kept the spunk in the 11 times appreciation on park slope brownstones over the last 25 years? inflation. in times of negative economic sentiment it’s called inflation, in times of positive sentiment it’s called appreciation. and you live, work, and consume in the US, the dollar doom is just water cooler talk.

  4. I’ve been inside a couple of houses in this group and they are way over the top in terms of interior detail. Coffered ceilings, leaded glass, fully panelled dining rooms, service stairway etc. As a four unit, this place likely suffered quite a bit in the breakup.

  5. Residential real estate is almost exclusively driven by income and interest rates.

    If incomes inflate at a rate commensurate with prices, then perhaps we will see inflation of real estate. This however did not happen in the 1970s.

    Foreigners are not going to be spending their euros on a subdivided house in Crown Heights, so if that’s what you’re thinking – I’d stick to trading on FOREX.