House of the Day: Crown Heights Grand Dame
Readers know that one of our pet peeves is the omission of addresses from real estate listings; that omission is particularly galling when a broker fails to respond to an email request for an address. You’d think the free publicity would be enough. Not one Brooklyn Heights Real Estate broker. The radio silence and the…
Readers know that one of our pet peeves is the omission of addresses from real estate listings; that omission is particularly galling when a broker fails to respond to an email request for an address. You’d think the free publicity would be enough. Not one Brooklyn Heights Real Estate broker. The radio silence and the lack of interior photos make us wonder whether this “Grand Dame” across from the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights is not an exclusive. (That, and the fact that the broker thinks it’s located in Bedford Stuyvesant.) Regardless, this baby looks awfully charming from the outside, though the listing does disclose that it’s in need of “total” restoration. Given that fact and the square footage of 3,872, we’d say that the asking price of $1,500,000 is rather aggressive. Thoughts? Update: We know now that the address is 875 St. Marks Avenue and have been sent a few photos of the interior which are posted above and on the jump.
Grand Dame [Brooklyn Heights RE] GMAP
I’m so upset right, we actually were in the process of buying this house and put in a full bid of 750K with 10% down and the broker then at the time, Jac’Qui Weekes of Flateau Realty never got back to us. I’m filing a complaint, anyone know how to go about doing this? Mr. B, I have pictures also, just have to find them. What an outrage!!
When we looked at it way back then, we thought it would make a great B&B. The front entrance is incredible and we couldn’t figure out a way of splitting it into apartments without chopping up that hallway. If we had the money, we would’ve bought it. Sigh…I wish you hadn’t brought that up.
good job hal.
Bring them on!
I found some interior pix I took at the open house. I’ll send some over to Mr.Brownstone and let him post at his discretion.
fixer upper is an understatement! I’ve been in that house and it was truly fabulous. That said, it had some serious structural issues, serious layout issues, serious living issues- you nme it, it had an issue. The basement was a wreck, there was an anormous of water damage there and in other parts of the house, the front wall was sagging (although from the picture this may have been shored up), and at least 5 dumpsters worth of junk. No kitchen to speak of – the 60’s era (?)kitchen had been in the basement and badly damamged by water. No longer usuable ( or even entering). the ones upstairs all needed gut rehabs. Same for the bathrooms, but if i remember correctly there was a wonderful upstairs bathromm that had one of those full body showers, but it looked later than the original period of the house. The huge bay on the side also should be shored up- the list was endless. One could easily spend at least 750,000 on renovation and structural work. Did I mention new heating and electrical and plumbing?
The house originally was asking over 900,000 and went for around 650,00. I think there were actually 2 flippers- one who was in construction and intending to renovate for himself and his family, and then the present one who is flipping the house. Not sure if I’m right about that.
But I did weep over this one- whata beauty- and I think it will sit for a long long time before it gets sold again. menwhile it will most likely continue to deteriorate.
Wow. 11 months ago the seller couldn’t get the asking price of $750K. All the flipper had to do was shovel all the crap left in the house into a dumpster.
they paid $650K 11 months ago…i’ll smoke whatever they are smoking please
This was the same house that Flateau had listed last year….there was a very serous mold problem in the basement on top of all of the other problems posted above…..
Amazing house, with amazing potential, but the future buyer will need to spend an amazing amount of money to correct /restore everything.