Co-op of the Day: 60 Remsen Street
This alcove studio at 60 Remsen Street has had a nice tune-up since the owner bought it for $315,000 last October (the kitchen, in particular, looks beautiful) but the fact that it’s on the first floor and, after all, only a studio make the price jump in the intervening eight months to $465,000 a little…
This alcove studio at 60 Remsen Street has had a nice tune-up since the owner bought it for $315,000 last October (the kitchen, in particular, looks beautiful) but the fact that it’s on the first floor and, after all, only a studio make the price jump in the intervening eight months to $465,000 a little hard to swallow. While no square footage total is provided, as far as we can tell from the floorplan, this puts the asking price at close to $1,000 a foot. Is this realistic?
60 Remsen Street, Apt. 1C [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Only 20 something singles care about hip. Lots of 30 and 40 something single women just want a nice safe neighborhood with lots of amenities and an easy commute. Many of my single women friends prefer doormen buildings rather than brownstone walk-ups simply because of that extra security of having a doorman when you come home late at night.
3:05,
Precisely why (as evidenced above in the million linked listings) there are a ton of studios for sale in BH and about 2 for sale in all of Park Slope…
You’d have to REALLY love BH to buy this studio at this price instead of a 1 bedroom in PS, FG OR CG…
And I don’t really see that being the case with most people who are in the market for studios…
It’s a nice big studio but other neighborhoods are far more desireable than Brooklyn Heights these days for singles who buy studios. BH isn’t hip enough for singles.
2:34 I am getting it exactly. The studio that is $200,000 cheaper is a tiny studio. There’s no point comparing it to the other one, which is EXACTLY the same size as the 1 bedroom that is $70,000 cheaper.
However, as I said, it is completely reasonable to compare the 1 bedroom to the co-op of the day studio, because it is the same apartment with a small wall built to make it a one-bedroom. (I know, because that’s what I did to mine).
I don’t know what the state of the cheaper 1-bedroom is. If it’s in the same general condition, of course it is by far the better buy. Even if the kitchen needs work, many people would prefer it to the lower floor studio (although for convenience, that lower floor is very nice).
Frankly, I have no desire to defend the asking price. I DO defend the maintenance, however. You still haven’t pointed out a single reasonable comp for saying that this is a high maintenance for an apt. this size in a doorman building.
2:23…
You aren’t getting it. The other 60 Remsen studio is 200,000 cheaper!!! It might be smaller, but it’s twice the price!!
And the 1 bedroom is still 70,000 cheaper!!!
This apartment is absurdly overpriced!
So we all agree…
This place is the most outrageously priced studio/1 bedroom in Brooklyn Heights…???
building is on a landlease
Also, the Henry st. studio is a lovely renovation, but you know what, it can never get any bigger than it is, no matter how much money you put into it. Notice there isn’t even a bed in the apartment — I’m guessing the couch opens up into a sleeping couch.
LOL, I have accused others of being brokers, and I really am not, but I do admit to the bias of having lived in that bldg. years ago. However, as I said before the Henry St. Studio has a high maintenance for a much smaller space. If you want an apartment where your bed isn’t in the living room, you’d take the Remsen St. studio (or the 1- bedroom you linked to), over that one.