Big Contracts Signed in Fort Greene & Clinton Hill
Contracts have recently been signed at two big-money properties in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. The former Gallilee Baptist Church at 447 Clinton Avenue finally has a buyer; the most recent asking price was $4.3 million but not sure what it went to contract for. Presumably this will be converted into condos. Let’s hope the…
Contracts have recently been signed at two big-money properties in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. The former Gallilee Baptist Church at 447 Clinton Avenue finally has a buyer; the most recent asking price was $4.3 million but not sure what it went to contract for. Presumably this will be converted into condos. Let’s hope the developers don’t f*&% it up! A few blocks to the west overlooking Fort Greene park, the immaculately appointed brownstone at 181 Washington Park is also now in contract. After originally hitting the market at $4 million, the five-story house was reduced first to $3.8 million before ending up at its final asking price of $3.6 million. Anyone know if this is where the deal got done?
447 Clinton Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Wazzup With 447 Clinton Avenue? [Brownstoner]
Washington Park Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
HOTD: Price Cut at 181 Washington Park [Brownstoner]
Um, how can this house possibly have a carriage house on Greene Avenue when it backs up to Carlton and Willoughby? Greene is blocks away. Once again, this house is on Washington PARK, not Washington AVE.
What’s with all the A/C concern? With global warming, none of us is soon going to be able to use A/C anyway. It is a matter of being green. Shut the darn things off. You are killing the environment! Applaud the owners for not putting such a wasteful system in the house.
This house sits on a HUGE through-lot with a full width carraige house on Greene Ave. Given that the 3.2M price tag MAY seem pretty smart after all.
The Fort Greene house is AWESOME! I have been stalking brooklyn properties for months just so I can fantasize about living there. The only thing I don’t get is that if this house was renovated from the studs out, why didn’t the owners have the foresight to add central aircondiitoning? I mean what’s the story behind that? Was it a budget issue, or did they just not care, or think it wouldn’t matter in the value? And does it really in the value? To add a decent system what does it cost, 50k?
If it was a budget issue, I can forgive there not being central air. Actually if I had the money I would have purchased it with central air or not, as if you can afford to buy this house, you probably can afford to add the central air.
However, if it wasn’t a budget issue, and they just decided to build this from the studs out, and NOT add central air, just because…then I question the owners…hmm..how can you say…sanity. THen I would have to question anything else that was done..say, does the dishwasher actually have hoses? Are the mirrors glass, or platic?
my two cents.
its true, fort greene is only served by the 2/3/4/5/Q/B/D/C/G. mebbe it needs to be near a j/m/z stop to be considered a “top-flight” neigborhood…
I like Ft. Greene well enough, but how can it truly be a top-flight NYC neighborhood when so much of it is a long hike to the subway, and even then it’s only the G or C train?
love the ft greene house, love the neighborhood. agree with poster above, neighborhood is one of the best. house needs a little modernization but i’d live in it anyday, just short about $3 mill. hope the new buyers enjoy it as much as i would.
wow! if that’s true they must really have been desperate. $500k off ask and $900k less than their original ask. i wonder what kind of buyer contingencies there are. i think a house in ft greene is worth $3.1 or more, but i never liked this house. but if any of the 14 townhouses went $2.9 then i’m surprised this couldn’t get closer to $3.5. those places are much smaller (narrow too) and the location isn’t even comprable. that part of state isn’t nice, but across from the park is beautiful. i guess most people with that kind of money prefer modern, or maybe this place was just too done. looked stuffy to me. i don’t get how they could have done such a complete renovation and not installed a central hvac system. i’m sure that hurt them.
I agree with the poster who wrote that Fort Greene is nice but not 3.1 million dollar nice.
Nicely put.