House of the Day: 375 Sixth Avenue Revisited
Time to check back in with 375 Sixth Avenue. Last summer, this house started out as a FSBO at $1,595,000. No one bit and by the late Fall, Betancourt had gotten the listing and had marked the price down to $1,525,000. Now Warren Lewis has the listing for $1,495,000. We gather that the narrowness of…
Time to check back in with 375 Sixth Avenue. Last summer, this house started out as a FSBO at $1,595,000. No one bit and by the late Fall, Betancourt had gotten the listing and had marked the price down to $1,525,000. Now Warren Lewis has the listing for $1,495,000. We gather that the narrowness of the house has been viewed as a negative by some, but it looks to us like one of those houses that’s laid out in such a way that it doesn’t really matter. And otherwise it looks quite charming. Who’s been inside?
Listing #5009 [Warren Lewis] GMAP P*Shark
I went to this open house last summer when it was still FSBO. The owner was so nice to us…she even gave my little girl a couple of note pads to draw on (and take with her). We weren’t there seriously…very far out of our price range. Anyway, the house has a nice feel. It’s definitely meant to be a single family, despite what it’s legal status may be. The kitchen needs an upgrade. It’s not awful, but it’s very early 90s peach/pink. The 3rd floor would require some work to convert it into bedrooms and get rid of that awful kitchen. The basement is not suitable for a rental, unless it was a dirt cheap thing for a cave dweller. Still, for a brownstone in a great area of PS with manageable renovations, I’d love to own it. It seems like a nice place for a family.
I sold my place myself last year, and did very well. You have to know your market.
Sounds to me price isn’t far off reality from what people are saying here. What holding back is less than upscale main kitchen,
a generally useless kitchen on top floor which will probably need to be ripped out or changed to bathroom, and
that Eng. basement not utilized – as in made into ‘rec room’.
I’ve been in the house a couple of times. It’s actually a great house – doesn’t feel narrow at all. Kind of shabby in a nice way, and the basic rooms still have their original feel – no too-horrendous renovations. Sadly for me, it’s just out of my price range or I’d seriously consider buying it.
the apt is upstairs, through the house. house is narrow and nothing special. yard is small. seller nice and i wish them well, but price should reflect what’s what.
I saw this house a few years ago.. the top floor has a kitchen, and is setup like a seperate one bedroom, but there is the common stairway. The basement is an english basement that needs work, and the kitchen is in the extension on the parlor floor. It was going for $830k back in early 2001.
Weird comment that mother/daughter thing — usually meaning a semi-legal apartment in a zoned one family house (can be occupied by a family member). frequentin the ‘burbs. Probably the garden floor is a rental and the rest is the owner’s apt? But maybe it’s not a legal two family? Could explain why it hasn’t sold.
So – to those that have seen it –
How is the ‘mother/daughter set up? I can’t figure that out.
And to question about narrow house and value – I think its matter of total sq ft. of house that you compare for value. Yes, those looking for grand parlor won’t be interested but my experience is that size/width of your parlor is equivalent to living room in most condos. The less than 16.5’ housess usually don’t have ‘side rooms’ upstairs so that bedrooms are same width as bigger houses.
Look at mews houses in Cobble Hill… per sq ft are just a pricey as the grand houses.
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