23 South Portland Avenue Still For Sale
The owner of 23 South Portland Avenue must not be in a big hurry, because the three-family brownstone has sat on the market for the last three years without a price reduction. (In fact, the price is now $100,000 more than the $2,500,000 price back in 2007.) That number may not sound insane for a…
The owner of 23 South Portland Avenue must not be in a big hurry, because the three-family brownstone has sat on the market for the last three years without a price reduction. (In fact, the price is now $100,000 more than the $2,500,000 price back in 2007.) That number may not sound insane for a five-story house on the most desirable block in Fort Greene until you consider this comment from the House of the Day thread from September 2007:
This house is currently completely demolished on the inside–there are no floors or walls. It is a shell, albeit a nice one, since the facade was recently redone. A buyer would have to build this house from scratch. About the nutty price, they’re trying to sell you a shell at move-in condition prices. There are a few details remaining on the parlor floor, a pier mirror, a marble mantel, and some cracked remnants of ornamental molding.
Has anyone been inside more recently or know more about the back-story?
23 South Portland Avenue Listing [Crewstown Realty] GMAP
House of the Day: 23 South Portland Avenue [Brownstoner]
That ceiling at 22 S. Portland looks like Hogwarts.
That listing looks pretty damn nice. Dave do you think the lis pendens was filed as they were renovating?
If any house in Fort Greene is worth 2.5 its one like this, on that kind of block, that size, that close to the park.
Yes, dino, thanks.
Hey dinobot thanks for that find….we happen to think 22 S Portland is much better that “pretty decent…” Very nice house that will sell for asking or even higher we are predicting.
lis pendens filed July, 2009.
a glorified shell for 2.5mm is not a good deal.
Ok…if the finished version of this (minus one story) is priced at 2.575, I’d say the owners of #23 are smoking some seriously hazardous crack.
word from deep in the grapevine is that the seller is hoping for a last minute negotiable offer…foreclosure is eminent and bank is threatening. We wish we could afford this place…will be a fantastic property on “the best block in New york”.
Residential real estate practice is a form of psychiatry. This owner must have issues, both financial and reality-oriented otherwise this wouldn’t be happening.