Condo of the Day: 409 3rd Street
Third Street in Park Slope, with its width and grand houses, is certainly an impressive stretch. That doesn’t mean, however, that an attractive, but far from spectacular, floor-through apartment will be able to fetch $1,000 a foot. The second-floor apartment at 409 3rd Street, which is asking $1,199,000, has some nice prewar charm, to be…
Third Street in Park Slope, with its width and grand houses, is certainly an impressive stretch. That doesn’t mean, however, that an attractive, but far from spectacular, floor-through apartment will be able to fetch $1,000 a foot. The second-floor apartment at 409 3rd Street, which is asking $1,199,000, has some nice prewar charm, to be sure, but the bathroom and kitchen are definitely a little tired and the layout feels like a cluttered maze of little rooms to us. The broker’s use of gross square footage to hype the place rubs us the wrong way as well. (He states a gross square footage of 1,337; PropertyShark uses the figure of 1,098. After all, you can’t sleep in the common hallway!) We think they’ll be lucky to get $1,050,000.
409 3rd Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
The larger houses in Park Slope that are still owned by the older generation are chopped up and filled with nasty little tenement apartments. We’ve been inside some of these once-grand houses when they’re for sale. Go take a look next time one is on the market. It really shows what Park Slope had become 25 years ago. Such a huge contrast to where it is now with all the progress. It’s interesting.
I know who 7:26 is too – someone with a pretty good idea.
7:26
I know who you are.
Ha – so funny to see broker morons posting multiple times, agreeing with themselves.
12:12/11:18 – do everyone a favor, including the people close to you. Rather than blowing a fellow broker, why don’t you instead put your mouth around the nearest tailpipe and inhale until you can’t any longer. That’ll be only one broker down, but it’s a good start.
12:12 – It is embarrassingly obvious that you are also 11:18, so of course you “heard that news also.”
Actually, 12:12, when you punch the addresses of those Berkeley houses into Property Shark or the DOB site, two come up with C of O for “Converted dwellings or rooming house” with 10 units, and the other comes up as an 8-family. It’s public information–look it up yourself since you know the addresses. And the $3.4 million home that sold was rare in that it was perfectly renovated with top of the line everything, including central AC, fancy sound systems, etc. That has set the bar pretty high for what you should demand in the Slope for that price.
i live on the same block of berkeley and i heard that news also.
none of those 3 homes are sro’s.
not sure what you are talking about.
if i had the money, i would have bought one of them in a second. this is probably one of the most beautiful streets in park slope (in my opinion) and those three (while needing some work) are beauties with the original railings and stairs out front.
and i heard they were indeed selling them quite cheaply.
cheap, considering a remodeled single family sold on this block for 3.4 million back in the summer. or so i heard.
never ceases to amaze me.
“Those houses on Berkeley were mentioned on another thread a couple weeks ago. It’s not hidden information.”
Maybe, but the same person keeps bringing them up. Also, until we see final selling prices, it means nothing.
If it’s those Berkeley houses that were mentioned last week, two are SROs/rooming houses, and the other is an 8-family. Hope those buyers are getting a deal.