Co-op of the Day: 145 Hicks Street, #B37
This one-bedroom at 145 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights (aka the Mansion House) just hit the market with a price tag of $539,000. The 850-square-foot apartment has pleasing prewar details, including a sunken living room; the exterior and common areas in the building are also full o’ charm. We’re a little suspicious of the fact…
This one-bedroom at 145 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights (aka the Mansion House) just hit the market with a price tag of $539,000. The 850-square-foot apartment has pleasing prewar details, including a sunken living room; the exterior and common areas in the building are also full o’ charm. We’re a little suspicious of the fact that the listing omits any photos of the bathroom or kitchen. This place one of five units currently on the market in the building; it’s also the cheapest.
145 Hicks Street, #B37 [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
it’s a very nice well-maintained building and the layouts and space are excellent. it is a charming building and passers-by often stop to take photos. it’s expensive because it is in brooklyn heights. there are lots of buildings like this one–from around 1920–in brooklyn. it’s the location. that’s why it is twice the price of the midwood apartment, kensingtonian.
Let the man make up his own mind.
tybur6, will you stop bluffing. you aint moving out of NYC
this is a classic case of the listing screwing it up royally. people here are crapping on the building exterior when it’s probably one of the spiffiest looking building in brooklyn heights. the seller should have sucked it up and got a professional photographer.
that being said, if the interior of this place is decent, i bet it trades close to ask. but if the kitchen/bath need work and/or the windows face a brick wall, then it’ll drop south of 500k.
tyburg, but this is an impeccable full-service building in the Boro’s best and priciest neighborhood. Location does matter. If you do move, I’m sure the folks in Branson will be happy to have you.
I ain’t got no beef with Brooklyn Heights… just a beef with half-million dollar price tags that are accepted as “super deals!”
To each his/her own. I’m gonna move to Branson, Missouri.
ditto it’s a nice building. B doesn’t mean basement; there’s an A wing and B wing
This building is impeccably kept and the apartments have gracious prewar layouts. The transitions and closets are well-placed.
I looked at an apartment on this level and side of the building in 1998 or so. At that time the price was about $160K for an apartment on this floor and orientation (I found it quite dark when I visited after work). The view was over the rear roof of this building (maybe the cellar was built full lot?). The bathroom in the unit I saw was pink tiled circa 1950 or earlier.
The lobby of this building is quite spacious and it had to have been one of the tidiest I’d ever have come across. It’s highly detailed with a well-done Americanaesque quality, which I actually find completely unappealing have been slaughtered with Jeffersonian detailing in my youth.
Tybur6, overall mkt – prices are too high period. relatively speaking when comparing among the high prices of brooklyn heights, this is not high by much.
btw, you need to do your part as far as saving more and/or growing income as mkt pulls back. until you’ve loaded up you warchest, you’ll never be able to buy something in a prime hood. Let’s say this unit comes to mkt at 150k – a price I’m sure you can afford and want to buy. The issue is you’ll encounter a bidding war against a ton of people that could & would go higher, higher, higher,….. so you need ammo to go into those bidding wars even if prices come down a ton