House of the Day: 52 Montgomery Place
Is it just our imagination or have there been a number of $3 million-plus houses hitting the market in Park Slope recently. (Just last week we looked at 112 Prospect Park West.) This five-story bay-front house at 52 Montgomery Place just hit the Corcoran site and there’s not much to go on yet: There are…
Is it just our imagination or have there been a number of $3 million-plus houses hitting the market in Park Slope recently. (Just last week we looked at 112 Prospect Park West.) This five-story bay-front house at 52 Montgomery Place just hit the Corcoran site and there’s not much to go on yet: There are no photos or floorplans posted and the first showing hasn’t happened yet. While we have no reason to doubt the listing’s description of “rooms of grand proportions with period details,” the air conditioners and the fact that the same person has owned us makes us wonder what kind of shape the interior’s in. Then again, after owning the house for three and a half decades, the seller took out a $550,000 mortgage two years ago; perhaps that money went into giving the house a tune up. Anyone been inside in the last couple of years?
52 Montgomery Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark
This is an urban mansion.
I can’t believe all the negativity.
Does it have issues? Yes, but it is still
a fantastic property.
This blog tends to build up marginal and decrepit properties and denigrate truly outstanding ones -I recall for example all the negative remarks on 9 Garden Place.
Is it the bottom feeders? Clinton Hill chauvenists? Whatever, it detracts from the usefulness of the blog.
The house needs a ton of work and is overpriced.. Not as big as a number of its neighbors. Once again Corcoran overprices. It might get $3 mil. but not more. I understand the owners are real slobs..
hah! Finally, some levity. I’m glad we’re all friends again. Busting chops over std insults never gets old.
Anyway, back to being a responsible and constructive Brownstoner member:
$3.7 million is most likely high unless the interior is fantastic.
311 Garfield Place sold for $3.0 a few months ago, at 22×50 a pretty good comp to HOD at 21×45
315 Garfield Place sold for $3.3 a few months ago, although I think this was a double-lot so not a great comp
285 Garfield Place sold for $2.1 a few months ago, although 17×45
Another reason I think it’s overpriced is that your backyard will be overshadowed by that big 17 floor apartment building next-door on PPW. Look at the “East” and “West” views on Zillow … that thing blocks a ton of light at certain times of the day. For $3MM+ it would be nice to be on a full townhouse block without a big apt. building hulking over you so people can see into you backyard, etc. Also, for what it’s worth (I know, not much), Zillow has it at $2.5MM.
But who knows, it only takes one rich idiot to close a deal.
okay, berto – you’re an ass.
re: “You posted your “conciliatory” SECOND message AFTER you fanned the flames of mindless personal attacks (not to mention your snarky “perky” comment) and for that your herpes have been outed” – exactly how did i fan the flames of mindless attack by pointing out that the woman lives in park slope, and that she is a founder and director of the brooklyn jewish theater? how the hell do you find that defamatory, or inciting, or “fanning”?
BTW, my face and body is absolutely COVERED in chancres – it’s syphillis, not herpes. i look like a friggin’ oompa-loompa, for crying out loud – EVERYBDOY KNOWS ABOUT THE SYPHILLIS.
i got it from Bob999 when we were hanging out, washing car windows.
like, duh.
8:29:
I have been in those rough-stone facade houses on Montgomery. They are huge, beautifully finished, and very comfortable.
The PPW house is part of a row that has seen better days. I used to take my dog to a vet in the basement of one of those houses. Its a workaday feeling there. Not the posh, exclusive feeling in Montgomery Pl. There is no comparison. PPW is great if you are on an upper floor of a doorman apt. house.
But the top of the line houses are on the sidestreets of the park block, or even better, Monty Place.
Thanks, Berto, for a great laugh–how’d you know where I work? And, if I may, regarding getting back to the house, well, yeah, that’s exactly what I was asking for from the beginning: pictures, floorplans, something to go on besides one exterior look and the claim that details fricking “abound.” In the absence of that, a little comedy at Jackie’s expense seems perfectly in order. Sorry I said UES when she’s a Sloper–my bad. But come on–how close was I with the white Lexus? 🙂 (PS, Anon 5:41: it’s spelled “asinine.”)
“authoritatively” I mean. Pardon the typo.
While I’m double posting, though, I thought I’d ask Serge what makes him so certain that this place is a winner vs. the PPW house? At least there we had some sense of the interior.
All I see here is the facade and box a/c’s in the window. Certainly nothing to make pronouncements on.
It might be a great house – I’d like to see floorplans and photos (or even better – an open house) before I authoritively declare it so.
This is a great house.
But because it is not a wildly overpriced shack, on a decrepit block, in a marginal neighborhood, there seems to be little enthusiasm from my fellow posters.