Top 10 Real Estate Listings This Week: Newly Redone or Ripe for Renovation?

This week’s top listings are about split down the middle: plenty of recent renos, with others that need quite a bit of TLC, if not a complete overhaul.

Which would you choose?

10. This new-construction two-family town house in Gowanus (not Boerum Hill, as the listing says) has a contemporary but not ultra-modern look. It features a semi-open plan and big windows throughout, with a view of the neo-Gothic St. Agnes church across the street.

411 Degraw Street
Area: Gowanus
Price: $3,950,000
Broker: Corcoran (Cheryl Nielsen-Saaf, Cara Sadownick)
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9. Brooklyn condos don’t get much more regal than this 10-room showstopper in Park Slope’s Montauk Club. Grand, richly detailed and in flawless condition, it’s a sight to behold, from the banks of stained glass windows and the coffered ceilings to the columns and the fireplace mantels.

25 8th Avenue #3
Price: $5,250,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Suzanne Koxvold, Sang Kwon)
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8. On Degraw Street in Park Slope is a four-story brownstone, set up as an owner’s lower duplex with a pair of one-bedroom apartments on the floors above. Photos and details are both scant. What little is depicted doesn’t look that bad, but the admonition to “bring your architect” suggests serious issues elsewhere.

657A Degraw Street
Price: $2,650,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow)
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7. In Crown Heights on Lincoln Place is a restoration project, with reported details including coffered ceilings, wainscoting, pier mirrors and original woodwork. There are no photos, but the listing warns that the house — which has been in the same family for 50 years — needs a “complete renovation,” minus the year-old roof and new front windows.

1167 Lincoln Place
Price: $999,000
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Joseph Dima, Josiane Lysius)
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6. This freestanding house at 2117 Glenwood Road in South Midwood, a legal two-family set up as a single residence, offers a lot of space. There are six bedrooms, a pair of living rooms, a dining room, three full bathrooms, a study, an additional room not designated as a bedroom for some reason, a pantry, a large foyer, and a roof deck.

2117 Glenwood Road
Price: $1,099,000
Area: South Midwood
Broker: Compass (Dan Bentov, Adam Sikorski)
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5. This three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bathroom apartment on the cusp of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens feels similar to a parlor floor in a brownstone. The apartment features a layout that that allows for privacy in each of the three bedrooms. The separate living and dining room areas feature tall ceilings and original woodwork. The kitchen is newly finished with light and dark wooden cabinets, a dishwasher, and two built-in ovens.

385 Clinton Street #3L
Price: $1,595,000
Area: Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens
Broker: Brooklyn Bridge Realty (Rebecca Bales)
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4. Last week’s No. 1, a newly built residence on Hancock Street in Bed Stuy, falls back to No. 4. The listing calls it “renovated,” though with a new flat brick facade there’s precious little left of whatever was here before. At 4,400 square feet it’s modern-looking, with some large open spaces, exposed brick walls, recessed lighting and floating staircases. For the owner there’s a four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath triplex with an upper deck; it sits above a two-bedroom rental and a finished basement.

876 Hancock Street
Price: $1,495,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Dan Bentov, Adam Sikorski)
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3. Here we’ve got a fully detached one-family with a center staircase on Bedford Avenue in South Midwood. It’s in decent shape the best shape of the lot, but at the least it requires updated kitchen and bathrooms. It’s got original mantlepieces, wainscoting, stained glass and a two-car garage.

2751 Bedford Avenue
Price: $1,100,000
Area: South Midwood
Broker: Compass (mTkalla Keaton, Matthew Scott)
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2. On Maple Street in PLG is a single-family, Axe Hedman–designed limestone with a lot of detail, which could be quite a looker with a little overhauling. Or make that a whole lot of overhauling. The condition is a little hard to get a handle on with this one — some of it doesn’t look that bad, but the floors are such a wreck that it begs the question of exactly how they got that way short of an assault team with crowbars.

139 Maple Street
Price: $1,600,000
Area: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Broker: Corcoran (Daniel Cohen, Noemi Bitterman)
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1. No surprises here: Our No. 1 pick for the week is a newly renovated Bed Stuy brownstone offering something you don’t see every day — a swimming pool. And not one of those low-rent above-ground round numbers, either, but an actual in-ground heated swimming pool in the rear, laid out with stone-tile decking and a white canopy. Also in the not-your-average-bear department: The basement has been turned into a movie screening room, with an overhead projector and surround sound.

361 Quincy Street
Price: $1,995,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Jessica White, Daniel Cohen)
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