Residential Sales in Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK $1,900,000 484 17th Street GMAP HOTD 7-bedroom 1902 Queen Anne Victorian House with all original wood details, gourmet kitchen and 3 working fireplaces; driveway and wrap-around porch; all new mechanics. Listed at $1,950,000; one day on market, all cash deal. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher. Sale Sets Ditmas Park Record [The Real Deal] PARK…
DITMAS PARK $1,900,000
484 17th Street GMAP HOTD
7-bedroom 1902 Queen Anne Victorian House with all original wood details, gourmet kitchen and 3 working fireplaces; driveway and wrap-around porch; all new mechanics. Listed at $1,950,000; one day on market, all cash deal. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher.
Sale Sets Ditmas Park Record [The Real Deal]
PARK SLOPE $1,190,000
932 President Street GMAP
1,855-square-foot, one-bedroom duplex condo in a brownstone; granite counters, stainless steel appliances, marble baths, c/a/ garden; common charge $444; taxes $2,652; listed at $1,190,000. Brokers: Daniel Gale Sotheby’s; Piping Rock.
Residential Sales [NY Times]
Don’t sell Brenda. You are one of my favorite neighborhood fixtures due to this board, and I don’t even know you. I have lived in the neighborhood for only about 2 years and almost every time I finally lure one of my Manhattan friends out to visit, I can’t get them to leave and they start checking the neighborhood listings. It has come to the point that friends of friends are trying to get invites because they want to check it out. My friends from Manhattan are, however, lazy like myself so I think the houses in this neighborhood that have been fixed up (like this one) are going to go for a premium. I’m thinking about fixing mine up (but only to make them envious -I am now a lifer in this neighborhood).
That Ditmas house is to DIE. I remember when it popped up at the MKG site and I was all up in my husband’s face about it. Couldn’t have competed with $1.9 mil in cash, though…;)
“$1.95 million, 1 day on market, all cash deal.” Six blocks from home, this is happening. Maybe we should move up our retirement plan (“sell the house and live like kings in Mississippi”). Or maybe Mary Kay needs a lady’s maid and manservant–we could hire ourselves out as a couple and I know she’d be nice to work for! (Just kidding you, MKG–congrats.) No wonder the city assessed our pile of peeling wood last year at $1 million. Every time the squirrel sticks his head through the hole in the ceiling, I tell him this, and we have one hell of a laugh about it.
I believe that the poster who used the term “Flippin’ Gorgeous” did not intend to imply that the house was a flip job, but rather was trying to avoid the expletive that the beauty of this house probably warrants. So no, not a traditional flip job at all.
And if someone offered me an all-cash deal at pretty much ask, I’d take it in a heartbeat. So much easier to get to close without all the bank hassles.
So was the previous owner a flipper? The renovation seems too high end for that. But if they weren’t just flipping the house, why would they move in, do all that work, then move out a year or two later?
Another guestion: it sold just under asking price. Why would a seller sell to the first offer (at least on the first day)? Is it because it was an all-cash offer? Is that a way more attractive deal than getting 50Gs more — or above asking?
Just curious.
Houses like this – the whole package, spacious, details, new systems, high end, tasteful renovations, fabulous, landmarked block, don’t come up very often. I’m betting MKG had a list of people waiting for exactly this place.
This is the most impressive house to come on the market since the Victorian Flatbush market got hot… It’s the top of the line… I wouldn’t expect to see prices higher to this, unless a Prospect Park South house with this sort of reno comes up… That said, I’ve heard the house on Buckingham is in contract for close to ask (1.9 down from 2.3 million), and although it’s a lovely home, it doesn’t have this sort of reno, so who knows…
Thanks, 3:35 & 3:39. That’s what I was hoping to hear. Once in a while, a house comes along that makes people do the craziest things, and it’s a pleasure to know that those houses — and those crazies — are around.
3:07…
This house is not really in the area you discuss, though it’s not terribly far. The East 17th Street house sold as it did because it is a beautiful home in totally pristine condition in a beautiful neighborhood. Not sure it’s a “value” but I am sure that it’s the type of house that a particular kind of buyer (one looking for space and details) would not hesitate to purchase- especially given trend of prices in Victorian Flatbush.
dimas house to anon 3:07
No. Just an impeccable house. I live in the neighborhood and have seen it. Flippin’ Gorgeous.
Buyers according to “The Real Deal” articles cited, cashed out on a place in Manhattan and grabbed this gem.