House of the Day: 202 15th Street
This ole South Slope woodframe is very cute and looks to have been lovingly maintained. It last changed hands back in August 2004 for $920,000 and is on the market for $1.2 million. We’ve got no idea if the current owner made any significant improvements but at $600 a foot, this has to be pushing…
This ole South Slope woodframe is very cute and looks to have been lovingly maintained. It last changed hands back in August 2004 for $920,000 and is on the market for $1.2 million. We’ve got no idea if the current owner made any significant improvements but at $600 a foot, this has to be pushing the upper bounds for the area. That said, we all know the square foot metric isn’t always the more useful when looking at smaller houses, where layout can play such a crucial role. What do the South Slopers think of this price?
202 15th Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
2:37
I don’t live in Manhattan.
Been renting for 12 years in Park Slope. I’m probably the nice and polite lady you see walking her kids to school.
What a loser I am! I should wake up and smell the napalm of what nice has become.
Don’t get so bent out of shape.
Having lived in the vicinity for a long time, it is just remarkable to see these small wood frame houses sell for so much money. But I agree with Anon at 2:12. It’s probably not significantly overpriced, as long as it looks as good in person as it does in the pictures — ready to move in, everything up to snuff.
Anon. 2:05,
The S. Slope certainly HAS changed for the better–I never meant to question that, even though I, for one, wouldn’t trade places.
anyone who supports comments such as…
these houses should be bulldozed, some of the crappiest houses in the country and crime ridden (on a perfectly decent street) is the one who should be admonished here. please go back to manhattan. you people who say ridulous, unfounded and downright rude comments to other people don’t deserve to live in such a nice neighborhood as park slope.
I support Eryximachus’ diabolical advocacy on this website generally.
And I wish to admonish that snotty person who said with such pity that the eryximachus is “obviously a renter.”
Why is it sad to be bitter about renting? I guess it depends how long you’ve been doing it and how scroogey you have to be to save money after paying skyrocketing rents? And then working out the tipping point where the two combined get you bitter. Is it 2 years? 8 years? 15 years?
NYC is expensive for many people. Few brooklynites can afford to shell out half a million bucks for small apartments in their nabes and a million bucks on unrenovated brownstones. But obviously it’s tonier these days.
…ugh… makes me think Manhattan is cool. At least no one pretends they’re keeping it real there.
Further to anon at 2:04, see how many houses west of Prospect Ave and north of 4th Ave you can find with 2000 sq ft for less than $1.4 million and you’ll see why this house will move quickly (whether it goes for under ask, over ask, ask, who knows, but it is not substantially overpriced).
Well, Bob, the S. Slope has changed a lot in the past decade–and a lot more than Lefferts Manor has. But I’ll agree that it is subjective.
1:57, the neighborhood is 180 degrees different now than it was even 3 years ago, much less “many years ago.”
…south slope is changing for the better so rapidly that no one is even noticing.
this house is perhaps overpriced by 100k, maybe even 150k, (although i have not seen it so who am i to speculate?) but those that think its WAY overpriced are the ones smokin’ something.
the reality is that houses and condos in this neighborhood are selling fairly quickly, the public elementary schools are very good, new restaurants and bars are opening up, crime is extremely low, and the proximity to manhattan is excellent.
Having moved from the South Slope (14th Street, bet. PPW & 8th Ave.) to Lefferts Manor (albeit many years ago) I disagree with Anon. 1:33 and 1:39, but that’s a very subjective choice either way–nothing for sane people to fight over.