135 Joralemon Closes for 30% Below Original Asking Price
Last month we reported that, after languishing on the market for a year and a half, the one-family house at 135 Joralemon Street finally went into contract. A little history: After a fire and a detailed renovation, the listing started out in July 2007 at $5,950,000 before being cut to $5,750,000 then $5,250,000 and ultimately…
Last month we reported that, after languishing on the market for a year and a half, the one-family house at 135 Joralemon Street finally went into contract. A little history: After a fire and a detailed renovation, the listing started out in July 2007 at $5,950,000 before being cut to $5,750,000 then $5,250,000 and ultimately $4,950,000. Last week, the house finally closed for $4,189,000. Surprised, or does it sound about right?
dbs- 19th between 4th and 5th has one or two for sale with front porches and pitched roofs. They need buyers who will renovate them instead of tearing them down or covering them with styrofoam or pink brick. Recently, some developer knocked a detached house with a porch down on 20th between 5th and 6th, and it looks like they also stalled on the development, so now we just have an icey pit.
Pretty much every block between prospect and 25th and 4th to 6th ave has one or two of these houses and probably more that have had their porches ripped off.
I think it was a developer or just a spec rehab as well because of the staging in the photos…didn’t look like someone actually lived there. Am I correct from anyone who was inside?
Park Place…what streets in particular?? Thanks.
it is hard to saywhat they paid for the reno since I imagine it was developers who did this. Sitting on the market for a year and a half paying a mortgage probably wasn’t what they had in mind. I saw this house two years ago on the brooklyn heights house tour. It was beautiful yet …. I can understand why it didn’t get asking a year and a half ago.
As you probably know since you’re a broker What; it only takes one buyer to complete a deal. It sounds right to both parties in this case since it closed, stupid.
Why are you starting out the day as such an ignorant Asshat???
What gets PWNED so early today. That said, your sentences today are grammatically correct and there are no spelling errors. A star on your collar today.
This PWNING of the What is so easy and isn’t gonna end..
PWA
It’s a beautiful home. The only issue to me, as we’ve discussed here before, is that it sits at the end of Sydney Place and I personally would not like to have a home at the end of a street. Bad feng shui (and bright headlights coming in to your living room). I’m also not crazy about this stretch of Joralemon, although there are some very nice brownstones across the street from it.
OK, quick pitch:
There are tons of houses like this in greenwood waiting for people like the posters above to bring them back to life- lots of 2-3 story 20X30 houses with pitched roofs with details and clapboards hidden under sheetrock and siding. If we fill the neighborhood with people who apprecicate the history of these beautiful clapboard houses, the neighborhood will one day be considered as nice, if not nicer than it’s brownstoney neighbors.
“It sounds about right to the person who paid $4.189MM. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t sound right to anyone else.”
Little early to be smoking the crack pipe Dave…
Oh BTW I have massive PWNING on tap, so be ready Dave..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
It sounds right. This is a very special house, there are not too many of these left in the Boros.
It is comfortably set-up inside and in move-in, never-used condition. It is also very bright and airy, something that was lost in the later, deeper brownstones.