Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Details in Prime Condition and Houses With Potential

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a house in need of some love in Park Slope, a renovated brick townhouse in Gowanus and a luxe mansion in Clinton Hill.

There are multiple popular listings in Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill this week, with other favorites scattered across the borough. The least expensive of the group is a brick townhouse in Crown Heights at $800,000 and the most expensive is the Clinton Hill mansion at $13.5 million.

Which would you choose?

10. This renovated Bed Stuy brownstone has a fair amount to offer: it’s attractive, move-in ready, has some nice original details and holds a pair of apartments on top of an owner’s duplex. The location is favorable as well; it’s on Putnam Avenue in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. In the negative column, there’s no deck for parlor-floor outdoor access.

803 Putnam Avenue
Price: $2.295 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Esther Patten, Maria Ryan)
Fetching Brownstone in Stuy Heights Historic District With Original Details Asks $2.295 Million
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9. This Queen Anne brownstone at 280 Washington Avenue in the Clinton Hill Historic District is not your everyday run-of-the-mill mansion. For starters, there’s the extravagance of its original architecture. Add to that a colorful history and stunning recent renovation. It’s known as the Pfizer Mansion though no Pfizer ever lived there.

280 Washington Avenue
Price: $13.5 million
Area: Clinton Hill
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Angela Ferrante)
Clinton Hill Mansion With Vintage Otis Elevator, Bathing Room, Parking Asks $13.5 Million
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8. Located within the proposed extension of the Boerum Hill Historic District, this charming, three-story Greek Revival has a number of well maintained original details and a nice renovation. Located at 238 Wyckoff Street, it’s configured as a two-family, with a garden studio beneath an upper duplex.

238 Wyckoff Street
Price: $1.5165 million
Area: Boerum Hill
Broker: Nooklyn (Heather Yampolsky, Talya Chalef)
Charming Greek Revival With Foliate Crown Molding, Deck in Boerum Hill Asks $3.085 Million
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7. In Bed Stuy we’ve got a three-story brownstone on Monroe Street that’s new to the market, has seen better days and is in need of restoration and renovation. The listing calls it “early 19th century,” which seems about a century off, but its claim that the place holds some prime details is on target: It’s got pocket doors, fretwork, a pier mirror, crown moldings and at least one mantel.

559 Monroe Street
Price: $1.325 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Terrence Harding, Dayanne Costa)
Colonial Revival in Crown Heights and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.25 Million
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6. In the Fort Greene Historic District, directly across the street from the neighborhood’s eponymous park, this two-bedroom co-op is quite compact but priced accordingly. Located on the parlor floor of a five-unit Neo-Grec brownstone, it’s been nicely renovated with original details despite its size. There are parquet floors with walnut inlay throughout and crown moldings in the living and bedrooms.

168 Washington Park #2
Price: $995,000
Area: Fort Greene
Broker: Corcoran (Heather McMaster, Emily Shepodd, Ariane Dembs)
Two-Bedroom Co-Op in Neo-Grec Brownstone Across From Fort Greene Park Asks $995K
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5. At 263 11th Street, on a historic Park Slope block unfortunately not protected by any historic designation, this single-family brick home is lovely but in need of some love. The compact three-story house has a number of original details and has had the same owner since 1984, but it’s in estate condition and needs work — possibly in the $500,000 range.

263 11th Street
Price: $1.8 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Halstead (H. Alexandra Como Saghir, Tyson Lewis)
Charming Bay Windowed Park Slope Single-Family With Six Mantels, in Need of Work Asks $1.8 Million
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4. In Bed Stuy is a brick three-story, three-family in rental condition. The facade has a cornice and off-center top floor windows, a front door with awning sandwiched by columns and a decorative arch above the two parlor level windows. Inside, original details include moldings and four mantels. There is quite a diversity of color in the pictured bathroom tile and kitchen cabinetry.

533 Macdonough Street
Price: $1.388 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Hiram Borrero and Scott Klein)
Standout Clinton Hill Victorian and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $800K
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3. Here’s a a nicely renovated brick townhouse in Gowanus that dates from the mid-19th century and was built in the Greek Revival-Italianate style. The three-story with finished basement has a number of cushy new features including recessed LED lighting, built-in sound system, central air, individually controlled radiators, a heated towel rack in the ensuite master bath, and insulation.

79 2nd Street
Price: $3.2 million
Area: Gowanus
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Alex Calabretta)
Standout Clinton Hill Victorian and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $800K
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2. This 19th century brick townhouse in Crown Heights has been gutted and renovated and turned into a condo. Unfortunately, the job included replacing the original well-preserved portico and painting the brick, but the exterior still retains plenty of curb appeal. Inside, the pocket-size one-family has been completely modernized and now has three bedrooms, one bath and exposed brick.

292 Howard Avenue
Price: $800,000
Area: Crown Heights
Standout Clinton Hill Victorian and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $800K
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1. In the Clinton Hill Historic District this Romanesque Revival corner property built in 1892 is in need of work. The three-family is currently configured as a lower duplex topped by two two-bedroom apartments. The home’s striking facade contains band courses, terra-cotta enframements, heavy cornice, dog-leg stoop, Roman brick and projecting arched bay windows surrounded by an arcade.

231 Washington Avenue
Price: $3.75 million
Area: Clinton HIll
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Douglas Bowen, Zia O’Hara and Simon Anderson)
Standout Clinton Hill Victorian and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $800K
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