House of the Day: $1.2 Mil in Boerum Hill?
This place jumped out at us from the Craigslist morass because we’re not used to seeing “$1.2 million” and “Boerum Hill” in the same sentence. So what’s up with this place? First of all, it’s only three stories, so that explains a good deal of the seemingly low price. Other than that, we can’t figure…
This place jumped out at us from the Craigslist morass because we’re not used to seeing “$1.2 million” and “Boerum Hill” in the same sentence. So what’s up with this place? First of all, it’s only three stories, so that explains a good deal of the seemingly low price. Other than that, we can’t figure out why the price tag’s not a couple hundred grand higher. It’s got the original architectural details and the location, too. Enlighten us, please.
Lovely Two Family Townhouse [Craigslist] GMAP
#494 – a 20′ by 40′ 4 story sold this year for $1.24 on this block. There were a couple others for sale also but don’t know what happened.
“BTW – some new construction is going up on that block close to Bond.”
That would be 435-37 Warren Street. The permits list Scarano as the Architect.
Regarding the price of the house, its probably a tad high if it is on the north side of the street. The houses on that side tend to mirror those on Wyckoff between Bond and Nevins in terms of size/square footage and the highest those have achieved in recent memory is somewhere between 1.1 and 1.2 but not 1.2. It is also a much better block aesthetically. Also, I believe a 4-story 20 footer on the south side of Warren only managed to fetch between 1.2 and 1.3 after languishing on the market for many months in the crazy days of 2005.
I think that Warren Street dead ends at Nevins. I think the block on Warren between Bond + Nevins has townhouses on both sides, so it’s not technically correct that it’s across the street from the projects. It is adjacent to the Wykoff Gardens project though. I have been interested to see that a new apartment/condo building is under construction on Warren closey to Bond. Don’t know what the plan is for marketing those units. I remember seeing a townhouse for sale right next to that development 2-3 years ago. The asking price was about $1.0 million.
wrong about facing the public housing but previous was right about ‘sandwiched’ between Gowanus and Wyckoff Gardens. There have been previous discussion here about other houses on that block for sale not so long ago. BTW – some new construction is going up on that block close to Bond.
This is definitely the block of Warren St. where one side is houses and the other side, the entire block (and many more) is the public housing complex.
It may not be right, but this is just not the kind of block people think of as Boerum Hill, despite the lovely homes. the problem is that if you have over a million dollars to spend (and anyone who does is pretty rich), you probably don’t want to live across the street from a housing project. Even if it is a completely safe block.
It will be interesting to see if anyone even buys the house at 1.2 million, or even 1 million.
Is that house on the same block that was on the market forever at 1,345,000 finally sell? Does anyone know at what price?
I had a wonderful house in Kansas City and I painted the inside various different warm browns, yellows, greens and it was absolutely beautiful. When I experimented here with those colors in my brownstone (painted boards and placed them all around at different times of the day) I think they looked awful. I think that it is a combination of the light itself in NY (versus midwest) and also the low natural light in brownstones. Those yellows don’t look good in a low light room and I also think that the city’s light itself is quite different. I used a Marble white in the parlor (Benjamin Moore) which is a white which has a slightly cool yellowish cast (more cool and greenish than Benjamin Moore’s linen white). Well, so much for colors. I also hate dark period anything so that is my personal taste too.
It’s on Craigslist but NOT on the Berman Realty site. What’s up with that?
How bizarre — a realtor selling real estate? What will they think of next?