Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

From some of Brooklyn’s most lavish and luxurious brownstones to two multimillion-dollar tear-downs, the borough’s seen some eye-popping sales this year.

Which deal surprises you the most?

12. One of three exceptional townhouses in the former “Amity Street Horror” building in Cobble Hill, this home boasts a rooftop patio, expansive living room and a “children’s library.” The building is a landmarked, French Renaissance palace-style structure that was once owned by Long Island College Hospital. It was converted into condos in 2011.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

114 Amity Street
Date sold: July 31, 2015
Asking price: $7,950,000
Sale price: $6,835,000
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Core (Lawrence V Treglia)
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11. The last and biggest of  three neo-traditional townhouses at Strong Place and Kane Street, No. 2 had the extra amenity of an 800-square-foot carriage house with parking on the lower level and a studio apartment above. The townhouse is about 4,000 square feet over five levels. The exterior was modeled on the neighborhood’s historic row houses, but the interiors are modern.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

No. 2 Strong Place
Date Sold: July 17, 2015
Asking Price: $7,500,000
Sale Price: $6,873,187
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Brennan Realty
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10. This one is weird — probably a $7,250,000 tear-down. This suburban enclave of Gravesend frequently boasts some of the most expensive listings in Brooklyn, and a 3,600-square-foot home down the street purportedly sold for $11,000,000 in 2003 — to be demolished for a new home. The new owner of 501 Avenue S, apparel exec Isaac S. Franco, apparently got tired of the 8,674-square-foot mansion he built directly across the street (after tearing down the $3,500,000 home that was there). Our money’s on another demolition-and-new-construction combo.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015
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501 Avenue S
Date sold: July 30, 2015
Sold price: $7,250,000
Area: Gravesend
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9. CWB Architects opened up this 1891 Romanesque Revival-style home with a double-height glass solarium that spans the garden and parlor floors and features a wood-burning stove. The kitchen, which overlooks it, is modern in feeling, with a wall of white subway tile, a dramatic and custom-made hand-forged brass hood, a Lacanche stove, and honed Carrara marble counters.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

250 Garfield Place
Date sold: June 18, 2015
Asking price: $7,500,000
Sale price: $7,665,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Joan Goldberg)
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8. This lavish 5,500-square-foot single-family home has elaborate plaster ceilings, six working fireplaces with ornate mantels (alabaster, according to the listing), views of the World Trade Center, a gym, office, temperature-controlled wine cellar for 420 bottles, central air and a darkroom.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

36 Garden Place
Date sold: May 20, 2015
Asking price: $8,250,000
Sale price: $7,785,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Stribling (Priscilla Bijur)
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7. This four-bedroom condo broke a record in September when it sold for $2,406 a square foot. The home is 3,657 square feet, plus a 693-square-foot private roof terrace. And there is a fireplace! It’s gas, not wood burning. Perhaps even more remarkable, the unit has its own vented gas clothes dryer.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

One John Street, PHE
Date sold: May 29, 2015
Asking price: $8,800,000
Sale price: $8,800,000
Area: Dumbo
Broker: Sotheby’s (Karen Heyman)
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6. The high price of this particular home might seem out of place for a property so far from transit and practically rubbing shoulders with the BQE. But records show that the property was purchased in a sale along with four adjacent empty lots. Add up the buildable square feet of those sites and you get a price of roughly $514 per square foot. Not bad for a development site. And this demolition permit just goes to support our theory that the site will soon be one hefty apartment building.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015
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145 President Street
Date sold: November 19, 2015
Sale price: $9,000,000 ($11,000,000 with adjacent lots)
Area: Carroll Gardens
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5. This grand Beax-Arts limestone mansion was built in 1912 by the Tracy family, who were in the shipping business, and was also used by the Knights of Columbus as a meeting house. For many decades, it served as a school. But the interiors were kept in fairly good condition, with a Tudor-style dining room, an Arts and Crafts library, and an 18th-century-style sitting room.

Biggest Home Sales In Brooklyn 2015

105 8th Avenue
Date Sold: March 17, 2015
Asking Price: $13,000,000
Sale Price: $9,500,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Halstead (Marc Wisotsky / Jackie Lew)
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4. This now-swanky Brooklyn Heights carriage house was sold by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2012 for $4,100,000. The new owners completely overhauled the 3,960-square-foot home into a real showstopper with four bedrooms and roof deck. And they sold it for more than twice what they bought it for.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

165 Columbia Heights
Date sold: October 7, 2015
Asking price: $9,950,000
Sale price: $9,800,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Sotheby’s International Realty (Gabriele Devlin, Lee Summers)
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3. This 3,532-square-foot townhouse was sold seven years ago for $3,100,000 as a four-family. It was then renovated back into a single-family. There’s no evidence it ever officially hit the market this past year, but sales records indicate it sold in July for $10,250,000.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015
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81 State Street
Date sold: July 27, 2015
Sale price: $10,250,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
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2. This Montrose Morris–designed Renaissance Revival townhouse was once owned by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany. The 5,243-square-foot house has six bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and is about 23 feet wide. One of the parlor fireplaces is faced in onyx. The dining room has a glorious coffered ceiling, panelling, and built-ins on steroids. The range is La Cornue, and the passthrough-sink area (slash dressing room) is palatial — just for starters.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

17 Prospect Park West
Date sold: June 26, 2015
Asking price: $14,000,000
Sale price: $12,400,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Pamela Huson)
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1. This record-breaking deal set the new bar for the highest price paid for a single-family home in Brooklyn. The 10,000-square-foot Cobble Hill carriage house contains an elevator, a screening room that seats 20 people, a 2,600-square-foot roof garden, an outdoor kitchen, gym, wine cellar and bar. It caught the eye of photographer Jay Maisel, who notably sold his previous home, a former bank famed for its graffiti, at 190 Bowery in Manhattan for $55,000,0000.

Most Expensive Homes Brooklyn 2015

177 Pacific Street
Date sold: May 29, 2015
Sale price: $15,500,000
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Alexander Maroni)
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  1. Oh my, I didn’t even see 145 President listed. It will be such a huge loss if they tear it down to make use of the adjoining buildable SF…. IMO it’s one of the most charming brick houses in Carroll Gardens.