House of the Day: Midwood Park
This three-story, six-bedroom house in Midwood Park looks interesting at first blush but the photos aren’t very good and no location is provided, so we’re hoping that some Flatbushies can help out. Let’s start out with figuring out the address and move from there. How’s $1.3 million sounding to you? Midwood Park House [Skylar Shaye]
This three-story, six-bedroom house in Midwood Park looks interesting at first blush but the photos aren’t very good and no location is provided, so we’re hoping that some Flatbushies can help out. Let’s start out with figuring out the address and move from there. How’s $1.3 million sounding to you?
Midwood Park House [Skylar Shaye]
Which is it? Is the house overvalued or are Zillow prices too low? You can’t have it both ways.
This house is on East 19th between Glenwood and Avenue H, so it is not in Midwood Park it’s in Fiske Terrace. It has been on sale for a while, first FSBO. The neighborhood is great but this house..not so much…
The address at the bottom of the picture says 1006 Beverley Road.
Isn’t that Prospect Park south?
The address at the bottom of the website says 1006 Beverley Road.
Isn’t that Prospect Park south?
Well they need to get some basic pointers on what angles to take interior shots from. And to turn off the date/time stamp or at least crop it out of the photo.
I’ve never heard of Skylar Shaye? Does anyone have the skinny on this real estate firm? I do like there home page.
Midwood Park is a lovely neighborhood with a strong suburban feel. The exterior of this house has undergone some changes over the years – none of which will impress the Landmarking Committee.
Midwood Park houses tend to be large, have great detail, but, unlike Ditmas Park, PPS (and even Beverly Squares East and West (original section), and I believe Fiske Terrace as well), these houses were not one-of-a-kind, custom designs. They were (for the most part)constructed from pattern books. Buyers had a choice of a fairly broad variety of styles, both for interior and exterior designs and finishes. If you walk the neighborhood, you will see frequent repetition of architectural motifs. Should that have some bearing on comparative pricing? I think, to some, degree, the answer is yes.
That said, it is a beautiful and architecturally impressive neighborhood, with little exterior alteration (the house featured here is one of the odd ones out…). It should certainly be landmarked, as should all of the remaining Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods.
It is my personal opinion that this house is overpriced because the porch renovation and siding detracts from the very feature that makes Midwood Park so beautiful and desirable – the generally spectacularly preserved original architectural character of its homes.
What is up with Zillow and these ridiculous price drops from month to month?
The bad photos and vinyl covered furniture lead me to believe this property is a comfortable $300,000. overpriced. Zillow.com just devalued my house about $100,000. in the past 30 days. Yikes!