House of the Day: Stealing Third?
This house on 3rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues is still showing up as a “New Listing” on the NY Times even though it closed yesterday! As it turns out, it’s been quite a long road for the sellers on this one. The house was first listed last April, and had an accepted offer…
This house on 3rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues is still showing up as a “New Listing” on the NY Times even though it closed yesterday! As it turns out, it’s been quite a long road for the sellers on this one. The house was first listed last April, and had an accepted offer quite quickly. Then the buyers backed out of the deal in July and the owners were back to square one. It’s been listed this go-round at $1.7 million but, in a dose of reality for current market-watchers, the number on the signed contract yesterday was $1.425 million. Sounds like a steal to us.
3rd Street Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
haunted huh..that adds to its pedigree, makes it that much rarer. how many can say they own a haunted brownstone on 3rd st
You know this house is haunted, right? The existing “mother-in-law” apartment refers to the owners who lived there before the people who just sold. The mother-in-law in question died in a fire on the 3rd floor in, I believe, the mid-80s. Caveat emptor!!
i would have paid 1.9 cash, and more if had to finance some..close the deal in 2 weeks or less. the broker did the sellers a disservice by selling at this price. I’ve registered with every major broker, so not sure why I didn’t get a crack at this gem. shame..someone should call jacoby and meyers
I finally found the house at 505 3rd street.
It looks like the sellers had a tax lien on the property and didn’t have the money to get rid of it.
Any buyer probably smelled blood and took them to the cleaners.
It’s a shame because they could have gotten more for the house if they didn’t have to sell.
6:24
I went to the archived listing. It does not have an address. It doesn’t mention being near the Park or being near 7th avenue.
This looks like a listing near 5th avenue.
What is the address?????
the address is 505 3rd street. there were never any teenagers in this house.
Here is Google’s cache of the original listing (listed at $1.7):
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:11JF1iDAEYIJ:www.brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx%3Fid%3D487237+inurl:brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx%3Fid%3D487237&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
The text:
Your own gas lamp and so much more! Four floors of period detail in very original condition. Legal 1-family brownstone ready to be configured as you like. Existing top floor mother-in-law apartment gives many options. With its gracious layout and beautiful, unpainted woodwork, this house is ready and waiting for loving restoration. Solid mechanicals include very new furnace (forced hot air allowing easy addition of central air conditioning), replacement windows and a recent roof replacement. Located in the P.S. 321 school district and very low taxes. Put down roots on lovely Third Street!
6:00, NOT on 3rd Street above 7th Ave. I just went over to this house. I remember it being filled with unsupervised teenagers pre-sale. There was also a fire on the top floor last year, or so (probably from all those unsupervised teenagers). Very strange people were in there.
Anon 5:55pm,
Do an NY Times search. There are tons of homes in that section of the hood being offered around 1.5 million.
What are you talking about?