Condos of the Day: Clinton Street Brownstone FSBOs
A husband-and-wife team bought this five-story, 25-foot-wide brownstone at 378 Clinton Street in Cobble Hill last year and have turned it from a five-family rental into a three-family condo. They’re keeping the garden duplex and selling the two upper units. The middle apartment is an 1,100-square-foot floor-through with 12-foot ceilings; The upper duplex about 2,400…
A husband-and-wife team bought this five-story, 25-foot-wide brownstone at 378 Clinton Street in Cobble Hill last year and have turned it from a five-family rental into a three-family condo. They’re keeping the garden duplex and selling the two upper units. The middle apartment is an 1,100-square-foot floor-through with 12-foot ceilings; The upper duplex about 2,400 square feet and has an unusually open plan for a brownstoner. (Actually, it’s kinda like what we did with our second floor.) While the renovation in general is fairly traditional and understated in feel, it looks like there wasn’t a lot of original detail that could be saved which is too bad. Given the amount of grumbling yesterday about the $1.8 million price tag on the duplex on 7th Street, it’ll be interesting to see whether the asking price on the duplex $1.95 million will fly; the simplex is asking $950,000. There’s arguably less on the market around Clinton Street than in Park Slope but, regardless, this place has to stand up on its own against an entire house that could be bought for the same price in not-too-distant neighborhoods. Move in or move on?
378 Clinton Street [FSBO] GMAP P*Shark
one thing: since owner is living there, you know that reno must be halfway decent in terms of mechanicals…
Even in this crazy Brooklyn market this is too high. Should be listed at 1.85 and go for 1.8. If sellers get close to 1.95 – good for you.
I will say you have a gorgeous building, nice spaces, ps 29, reasonable cc$, and agree with most of the positives noted by prior posters.
I too appreciate the owner responding above. Drop your price by $100k and this will move quickly.
I think ps 58 is a great school and on-par with ps 29, people need to realize the greatness of the school. The house is very nice and i would love to get into the clinton street condo. good buy in a very very nice area.
ok, yes IN the best city in the world. sorry.
only further enhances my comment.
and no, wealthy people with families are not as fickle as you might think. especially when jobs and schools are involved. new york has always been a place for the wealthy.
don’t just say things just to say them.
it’s quite silly.
The rich are incredibly fickle.
Now you see them, now you don’t.
Today Brooklyn, tomorrow Dubai.
“incredibly urban environment near one of the best cities in the world ”
Near? I thought was Brooklyn major part of that city.
the difference is now that in case you haven’t noticed, rich people are only getting richer.
the change that is happened and happening in brooklyn is only going to be enhanced.
trust me…someone who can shell out 2 million for a house is not in any way, shape or form hurting for money. they also have enough money to go through a downturn, a stock market crash etc.
we are talking about some of the welathiest people in the country here…maybe the top 2% or so.
people with that kind of money do not “change over night” with regard to their financial situation.
certainly not in any form of signigifant numbers to make a drastic change for brooklyn.
some of you need to understand that brooklyn has become an incredibly urban environment near one of the best cities in the world with greta shopping, restaurants, increasingly better schools.
these are highly coveted things that barring the extinction of the human population will continue to be extremeley sought after things. when these things changed, the suburbs are, as we speak becoming extinct themselves.
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Thirty years ago you would have a lot of trouble getting a bank to give you a mortgage in Cobble Hill. In those days the seller “held the note” or you paid cash.
It was a nice, safe, Italian, lower-middle class area with a few younger, richer couples moving in because buying an old house was cheaper than renting a two bedroom in the East Side. It was fairly un-affluent. The houses went for about 90,000 as I recall, but you couldn’t get a mortgage. That was thirty years ago, 1977.
I think these look stunning. I see some of the possible drawbacks (the walk-up, the small condo assn), but could be a great situation for someone.