House of the Day: 63 South Portland Avenue
It’s hard to imagine a way to make this listing less visible: List it only on your 1998-looking website with no address, no interior pictures and just a few lines of text; then put a small sign in the window and spend no money on a New York Times ad. Brilliant! Of course, the survival…
It’s hard to imagine a way to make this listing less visible: List it only on your 1998-looking website with no address, no interior pictures and just a few lines of text; then put a small sign in the window and spend no money on a New York Times ad. Brilliant! Of course, the survival of behind-the-times brokering tactics is a bargain hunter’s best hope. In this case, the listing is 63 South Portland Avenue, a five-story, 22-foot-wide brownstone on Fort Greene’s most fabled park block. The fact that it’s a five-family and the listing says “creativity required” suggests this baby will take some work, but it could well be worth it at the asking price of $1,700,000. GMAP
Ha! so snarky, it glitters!
Sorry I killed the HOTD. To redeem myself, I will pass on a valuable real estate porn tidbit: I was walking in front of that gorgeous haunted mansion at 405 Clinton on Sunday, and a moving crew were emptying the house. The movers were saying the house has sold.
> “real estate firm, Whitaker, brooke & Harrison.”
Represented no doubt by the law offices of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.
The owner is Renovation Generation (ha!), with an address of 261 Adelphi, which happens to be a small 1 story office belonging to a *drum rolls* real estate firm, Whitaker, brooke & Harrison.
The only link I can find is that their website is just as deficient as the broker’s. Who knows?
Is the agent the owner????
well, it does explain why the real estate agent didn’t list the address.
Obviously if this comes with some grisly tenant situation the asking price is too much. Hadn’t seen those violations either. Yikes!
No more discussion required after Maly’s post!!!!
No, but it is “The Best Block in the city” according to Time Out and the best brownstone block in the city according to Charles Lockwood!
According to Property Shark, it has a rooming house C of O, over 25 open violations and taxes over $9,000/yr.
You would have to have nerves of steel and a wallet made of platinum to touch this.