HOTD: Don't Worry, You Can't Afford It Anyway
This is one of those crazy pads that are so expensive–and the potential purchasers so few–that there’s not much point in discussing whether or not it’s a good deal (though at half the price of this place, it’s looking like a steal). The 9,500-square-foot mansion is a little time-worn and given the likely standards of…
This is one of those crazy pads that are so expensive–and the potential purchasers so few–that there’s not much point in discussing whether or not it’s a good deal (though at half the price of this place, it’s looking like a steal). The 9,500-square-foot mansion is a little time-worn and given the likely standards of the buyer will get a big makeover. Of course, we’d be happy to move in as-is. We suspect we could get by just fine! The listing’s a little short on photos…Has anyone been inside recently?
Remsen Street Mansion [Brown Harris Stevens]
Hey Brownbomber- still reading and still posting but as anon. The constant attacks from the troll just got to be too much. I spent more time being angry and upset at him than being able to enjoy the blog and I know it didn’t help when I reacted. Some things just push the buttons too hard. I read some other posts where he is calling different anons Bx2Bklyn, to see if he can get a rise out of me. Guess he’s not having as much fun anymore. Same goes for CHP. Thanks for asking tho! 🙂
“This site seems to do more than bring a critical eye to how properties are priced in Brooklyn. It seems to encourage price controls which obviously suits another agenda.”
It’s pretty funny you say this Ed – from reading this blog over the past year it seems to me that there are plenty of folks who cared very little about price control and bid up crappy places to prices over a million dollars just for the honor of renovating them to the tune of 200-400K. It hardly seems to me that the people ’round here are interested in price control.
you guys are all so serious. lighten up for cryin’ out loud…it’s only real estate…
there’s another listing on remsen (near henry) for $4.6M that is much nicer, greater $ return, and needs little or no work and apartments are good sizes.
Ed, you confuse me. Go away for a couple of days. Hey, whatever happened to CHP and Bx2B?!?!?
Hey Ed 3:14, stroll over to curbed.com and read some of the message board comments whenever Brooklyn comes up. The issue of “brooklyn vs. manhattan” is raised pretty often and you would be suprised, and perhaps saddened, by the number of people who still are of the mentality that manhattan is just better…always. I grew up in Brooklyn, and I live there now and love it. But many people, some who are from Brooklyn originally, still consider it a “step up” to be living in “the city”, meaning Manhattan.
Again, you may not agree, but that mentality certainly exists, sadly.
It’s a free market, dude, and commentary and discussion are part of the process. No one’s holding down prices. We’re frankly a little confused by this blind boosterism in which no price is too high.
Furthermore, why limit prices in areas which have gotten expensive when there are plenty of less expensive areas that would benefit greatly from owners who care about preserving their brownstones?
This site seems to do more than bring a critical eye to how properties are priced in Brooklyn. It seems to encourage price controls which obviously suits another agenda.
I can’t say that this obvious agenda – that Brooklyn remain affordable and that it eschew certain types of large scale development – is bad per se. But is such an agenda realistic? And will the pursuit of it actually encourage regression which removes many of the positive developments achieved in the borough over the last decade?