House of the Day: 322 Park Place
As great a block as this house is on and as impressive a facade it has, the asking price of $2.2 million seems like quite a stretch for this side of Flatbush Avenue. The same family has owned the house since at least the early ’80s, and besides the strange addition of new granite tiles…
As great a block as this house is on and as impressive a facade it has, the asking price of $2.2 million seems like quite a stretch for this side of Flatbush Avenue. The same family has owned the house since at least the early ’80s, and besides the strange addition of new granite tiles for the wall of the entry foyer, has done little work as far as we can tell. On top of that, while most of the original details are intact, they don’t strike us as being quite as impressive as we’d expect. To be fair, it could be how they’re photographed (subpar for a Corco listing). Anyway, in case it sounds like we’re being overly negative and nit-picky, it’s only because the asking price begs scrutiny. If this had been put on the market at, say, $1.7 million, we’d have a strikingly different reaction. The price is particularly rich for a family that wants to use this as a one- or two-family, as converting from a four-family won’t be cheap.
322 Park Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
looking past the owner’s personal touches… all the details seem to be intact.
“The price is particularly rich for a family that wants to use this as a one- or two-family, as converting from a four-family won’t be cheap”.
Did it ever occur to you that some people might a multi family house for living and for income and not everyone is a conspicuous a consumer and needs an entire four building to house just one or two families.
Prospect Heights Rocks! But 2 Million for that house seems off….Maybe $1.7-1.8M because of the location (prime!) but not for the interior (two thumbs down).
One thing that’s good about it is that since it’s an “even” address, I think that means the garden faces away from AY so it’ll still get sunlight. I don’t see why someone who wants to convert it to a one or two family would buy this. There were four-families in the nabe going for 1.6 last year. Much depends on the width –no floorplan here. It’s certainly aggressive pricing, given the drama that the construction near it will create.
2 million? Noice!
Not too shabby for Prosepect Heights I’ll be rooting for it.
its a bay window
i love that bench they have built into the “portico” (is that the word to describe the butt-out of the front windows?”). i have the same thing in my house and would like to have someone build a similar bench.
Amen to the comment about drama of conversion . . . especially considering the high-end price.
The taxes alone would choke many of us!
To buy this place, you’d have to definitely be thinking about living in one of the units and renting out the other three for a while.
Not a bad idea – IF you’ve got the dough now, don’t need a lot of space now and want to give yourself the chance to spread your wings in the future.
Otherwise just keep looking for a place that’s configured right — or a lower price tag.
12:22, Todays discussion is about a house on Park Place, not Parkside. Different nabe.