House of the Day: 127 Fort Greene Place
This listing at 127 Fort Greene Place in, you guessed it, Fort Greene just hit the market with an asking price of $1,950,000. The four-story, two-family house has some impressive historic chops, including some beautiful original floors. The house appears to be in decent shape too. The location, while quite convenient and attractive, is not…
This listing at 127 Fort Greene Place in, you guessed it, Fort Greene just hit the market with an asking price of $1,950,000. The four-story, two-family house has some impressive historic chops, including some beautiful original floors. The house appears to be in decent shape too. The location, while quite convenient and attractive, is not the best in the neighborhood, that honor lying with the “South” street park blocks. The big question mark, however, is how buyers are going to feel about the kitchen being on the top floor. Tough one.
127 Fort Greene Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
The Who: totally predictable comment, that has been said ad nauseum about every single brownstone brooklyn neighborhood.
I was hoping that by now the Ft. Greene rave was over.
It WAS a nice cozy nabe, but it has quickly become overpopulated and uncomfortable.
Realtors and landlords are outright lying to prospective tenants about available properties rental or otherwise.
Fort Green is not a neighborhood. Its just a “hood,” with a new influx of people buying overpriced real estate and looking for beer and burger joints nearby.
That hanging plant could be Audrey III.
You actually think the stadium is going to decrease the surrounding nieghborhoods property value by 20%? Thats crazy…i can not believe that. That stadium will draw more people to downtown Brooklyn, there by increasing the local business’s profit, more people who dont know about Fort Greene or Prospect Heights or Park Slope will. People will fall in love with Brooklyn even more then they have over the last 10 years…the economic effect alone should at least sustain property value. Cant see a 20% drop.
I find the garden apt rental layout even more puzzling. There isn’t even a decent place for a bedroom. The area listed as a possible bedroom would require people to go through the bedroom to get to either the bathroom or kitchen. That seems weird to me.
I could probably live with the layout of the owner’s triplex but I agree that the arena is going to greatly diminish the value of that location.
It’ll sell close to ask.
This layout doesn’t seem so puzzling to me. It may have been an owner’s triplex with the kitchen/dining room on the garden level, double parlors above that and two bedrooms above that. The top floor may have been a mother-daughter apartment (although there’s no bath, which is strange).
If you eliminate the kitchen on the top floor, put up some walls and install a bathroom (maybe $50k?), then you’re back to a typical 4-story, one-family arrangement with two floors of bedrooms above the parlor and the cooking/dining area below the parlor.
Agree with above re issues with the house itself. And thanks to Mr Ratner’s pet project only two blocks away, you can soon forget about the “attractive” adjective for the location. $500k off for that alone. Sadly, the “attractive” northeastern section of Prospect Heights will be dealing with the same issues.
From the few pictures, it doesn’t look like a $2M house. No central air, needs a good layout tweaking, not too many details. It’s OK, not great; it would have to be really nice to be worth that in this location.