House of the Day: 24 Cheever Place
A reader flagged this listing on Cheever Place for us, calling it “optimistically priced” and we’d have to agree. Cobble Hill’s purdy and all, but close to $2 million for a three-floor house built in the 1970s with no particular character to recommend it? Pass. And you’d think big swingers Leslie Marshall and James Cornell…
A reader flagged this listing on Cheever Place for us, calling it “optimistically priced” and we’d have to agree. Cobble Hill’s purdy and all, but close to $2 million for a three-floor house built in the 1970s with no particular character to recommend it? Pass. And you’d think big swingers Leslie Marshall and James Cornell would know enough to put up some interior photos, even if what’s there ain’t that sweet.
24 Cheever Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
31 Cheever across the street is asking 1.79mm. Don’t know the condition, but it’s also been sitting for awhile.
As a former Cobble Hill resident (I lived in Cobble Hill Towers for 10 years), I must play armchair neighborhood boundary cop. This is most definitely Cobble Hill and not Carroll Gardens. Here is a map of the Cobble Hill Historic District:
http://www.brooklyncb6.org/committees/index.cfm?m=web&a=webpage&tpl=main&show_menu=true&template_id=5§ion=3&page=11&content_id=52
this home can use a makeover, some stucco on the outside, poly white fence, the works..then maybe 2 mil will be achieveable
first off these are in Carroll Gardens not Cobble Hill. Second I have to say I walked by them recently and though for the grouping was kind of quaint for a “recent” build. It’s a simple colonial facade but I think it’s reasonably well done. And better than most of the stuff going up today. That said 2 million seems steep to me. Especially with those taxes. Yeesh.
I can see how this duplexes, but I guess it is lower in the back because below-grade bedrooms aren’t legal.
Even so: Assuming rents of
3000
2400
2400
300
The price is 21x rent roll, which is a disaster for an investment.
I think that she priced this at 614/sq foot. Problem is that I don’t think tha t garage space goes for that number.
Historically, crappy rentals haven’t gotten this kind of number.
Trying to imagine how lower duplex is created…since no window on street – and they are saying 3 bedroom duplex?
Would like to see floor plan.
Building in 21′ x 53′ so the 2 single floor apts are good size.
I know not everyones cup of tea – but for size and location (believe it of not this is landmark block) the price is not far off the mark.
I live 2 (short) blocks away from the BQE. I can’t speak for those living in Brooklyn Heights on the promenade, but I almost never hear it (and even when I do, it’s faint white noise), and I certainly never feel it. I’m always struck by how quickly the sound comes up as you hit Hicks Street, and how quickly it has diminished by the time you hit Cheever.
BQE is always a problem..even if you live in brooklyn heights along the promenade…your house and windows shake, your walls split and you hear it all…on or two blocks doesn’t matter..either way you hear it, feel it and know it’s there and never going away
I’m sorry, but the BQE is a non-issue on this street. I live a block further away on Henry, and often walk down this block. It’s faint white noise, at the worst, and not noticeable at best.
That said, this place is way overpriced. I seem to remember a four-story brownstone on this block not asking for that much. In this market especially, this price will come way down.