House of the Day: Clifton Place Move-In Ready
This new listing on Clifton Place looks pretty nice–and is $150,000 cheaper than the similar Cambridge Place listing a couple of blocks away. This listing looks like it may not have quite as much historic detail as the one on Cambridge, but it certainly is a lovely block. Clearly this place has been renovated recently…
This new listing on Clifton Place looks pretty nice–and is $150,000 cheaper than the similar Cambridge Place listing a couple of blocks away. This listing looks like it may not have quite as much historic detail as the one on Cambridge, but it certainly is a lovely block. Clearly this place has been renovated recently and is in move-in condition. The top floor has some design decisions we don’t love, but that’s just a personal thing. The house is listed as a multi-family but we have no idea whether it’s a 2- or 3-family (looks like it couldn’t be 4). We think $1.4 million is about market for this place, so it may have a shot at fetching the ask of $1.5 million.
Clifton Place Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Friends of PS 11 doesn’t need to do a better PR job. They are already WAY overselling that school. Do hope it gets better though.
This is a great house. Will probably sell quickly. The block is very beautiful and quiet and near subways and playgrounds.
I’ve seen some horrible flips in my nabe in the past (Ditmas Park), but recently there have been some very meticulous jobs, including a house that had a fire last year, and which flipper (his first house in Brooklyn) should have on the market in the fall. Amazing attention to restoring/preserving period detail. Great location on Ditmas Avenue in Ditmas Park Proper. The house will be a great asset to the neighborhood. I am not a realtor, just a resident who is pained when beautiful, historic homes are bastardized.
Jerry Minsky was selling this before (for a couple of hundred less) … wasn’t too long ago.
What do you guys have against flippers? I’m a flipper and proud of it. Of course, there are flippers who do crappy cheap renovations and flippers like me who renovate a place as if it were my own home.
Long live flippers with good taste!
Long live the bubble!
The point about the c-of-o not matching use may serve as a warning about the consequences of not filing work with the DOB.
We saw 18 Clifton Place in the late fall of 2004, when it was listed with Corcoran (Jerry Minsky) at 1.375 m. As other posters have noted, it is a strange but meticulous renovation by an artist/sculptor who now lives with his wife in another house (quite notable) in the neighborhood. Two problems with the house when we saw it: the newly installed parlor floor kitchen is awkward and cuts up the space considerably; there is no access to the garden from that floor (the only access is from an exterior staircase on the bedroom floor or through the ground floor apartment); there is no privacy on the bedroom floor (the entire space was opened up and the staircase goes through it) and the top floor, literally an open artist’s studio, has no bathroom> in short, it’s a very well done, personalized space for a like-minded buyer. But–and here’s what may have been cleared up since then–two firm accepted deals fell through because of the sro status.
As for 92 St. James Place–adorable, with a terrific center staircase making a very narrow house seem much larger–that basement apartment was not rented but–according to the owners– lived in by a family member. Because it is below grade, it is not a legal rental. It just closed in June , btw: 1.325m.
This *is* 18 Clifton and they did take it off the market because their sales were stalling due to the houses c of o not matching the layout. We came very close to bidding on it. It’s a beautiful reno if you like a balance between detail and more modern elements but the layout and garden level are a problem. They’re not flippers. The owner is an artist and he did use the top floor, which has amazing light, as his studio and they lived below and rented out the first floor and parlor seperately. It would work better as a 3 over 1, and the garden apt. needs to have the kitchen moved to the middle but that’s a major hassle and it’s at the back because that’s where the original kitchen in the house was. It’s essentially move in condition with tweaks needed to make it what you’d want and was more than we could comfortabley afford but it’s realy lovingly maintained. The owner even did some impeccable restoration to the mantles on the parlor that you’d never be able to detect if you weren’t told about it.
If my memory serves me correctly the house number is 18 Clifton Place. Also, the house was taken off the market to change the certificate of occupancy from an SRO. I called after it was off the market and the owner was very confident that it would sell (hence the 1.5K price tag). I herd there were accepted offers when it was at 1.375K.
BTW – I posted about the drug activity a few weeks ago. I live on Clifton between Grand and Classon.