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The first month on the market was not a good one for 402 Pacific Street, the four-unit townhouse conversion in Boerum Hill. As a result, all four apartments have just had their asking prices trimmed an average of about five percent. The biggest unit, for example, was reduced from $1,250,000 to $1,150,000, a function, perhaps, of about a third of its square footage being located on the ground floor. By comparison, the cheapest unit (the second floor) came down just $30,000 to $895,000. The overall reno doesn’t really move us, but the windowed extension is a nice touch. These condo conversions seem like an increasingly tough sell to us as prices in larger new buildings only get more competitive.
402 Pacific Street [Streeteasy] GMAP P*Shark
402 Pacific Street Gut Job [Brownstoner]


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  1. I live around the corner and have seen the market for full Browntones go to $2.0+ mm. I’d rather buy a full house (i.e. duplex + 2 rentals) than one of these condos. If you buy a house you’re getting $2,500 for each of the rentals you’ve got $6OK a year of base year rental income which could service about $800K-$900K of mortage. That puts the cost of your parlor duplex at $1.1-$1.2 mm, which seems better than a condo floor through at a slightly lower price.

    P.S. I think the renovation looks good, but the layout is odd. One of the 2 bdrooms in each apartment opens right into the kitchen.

  2. 2:34 – Well I guess it depends on how you define “nice.” I always was looking for two bedrooms that a family of four could live in, and for that you wouldn’t be paying less than 3000.

  3. 2:38PM

    That is all people do on this site that is why the web master has a flea market? He needs to constantly try new and different things to be a bottom feeder and thus he has a flock of really really far out and bizarre people who bitch all day.

  4. I live on the same block as 402 Pacific, and it is a very nice block. It is pretty much in subway heaven, being near the F/G, A/C, 4/5, 2/3, B, D, Q, and whatever else stops at DeKalb and Pacific & 4th.

    Having watched the development, it appears the devloper did a quality job on what started out as a very unpromising gut job.

    My neighbors and I think those condos are a whole lot of dough, but then again we’ve always been shocked at what people pay. Prices in Boerum Hill just keep going up and up.

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