House of the Day: 380 Degraw Street
Okay, let’s get the paint job out of the way upfront. You gotta wonder why the sellers of this brownstone at 380 Degraw Street didn’t spring for a more neutral coat of paint before putting the house on the market. If it were only one room, we could roll with it, but every room in…
Okay, let’s get the paint job out of the way upfront. You gotta wonder why the sellers of this brownstone at 380 Degraw Street didn’t spring for a more neutral coat of paint before putting the house on the market. If it were only one room, we could roll with it, but every room in sky blue? It’s a little much. With an asking price of $2,645,000, spending $10,000 to repaint a few rooms would have been well worth it, we think. While this is a great house in a great location overall, other aspects of the recent “modern” renovation were only partially successful as well: The shiny blond floors (which, to be fair, could be worse on camera than in person) and the choice of white paint for the exterior of the windows both aren’t working for us. The kitchen reno looks very good, though, and there’s lots of nice original detail still in place, like the crown moldings, door frames and bannister. There’s an open house on Sunday from 1 to 3. It’ll be interesting to see hear how this place shows in person.
380 Degraw Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
There are comps. Again, some people here really do not know what they are talking about. Opinions are great, but…Where do you think the price came from? Fell out of the sky??
I have installed at least 6 Ikea Kitchens. The cabinets for the money cannot be beat. Only super duper highend cabinetry is better. And I know all you Big SPenders out there would never spring for the Poggen Puhls, YOu are all too cheap who cares if one nitwit prices their house at $1000 a sq foot, I hope they get it. I hope This house sells for 2.5. God Bless America. Land of the RICH ANd the POOR all living together in Harmony.
Anonymous 6:21: How is the house 3600 sq ft?
Each floor is 19 x 36 = 684 sq ft x 4 (number of floors) = 2736. Puts it at $967 per sq ft.
What am I missing?
^ If the broker’s measurements mean anything at all, that house is not 42′ long, as propertyshark has it — more like 38′ tops. Which gives me 3000 sf, which gives me $880/sf.
Someone asked, are there comps that support this. It’s a good question.
glad you like Serge’s comments – because he loves to make them even when he doesn’t know what he is talking about as in
“I think there are relatively few Spanish people in the area, most of the immigrants are non-European from the Caribean and other parts of northern Latin America. There are also many impoverished American families in the run-down houses and projects nearby.”
Same goes for others – House around corner on Douglass recently and very quickly went into contract -asking $2.25 with Corcoran – no stoop and a little smaller with very short backyard.
Degraw is very nice, attractive block – and yes price is pushing it but nor far off.
And house is about 3600 sq ft. not 2700 like the other commentors nonsense. Which puts in in $700s a sq ft.
And I don’t really care for all the blue either.
I don’t know about this price. One poster asked about comps. Regarding the paint, I don’t like it at all but you wouldn’t need to redo all the trim, just the blue (unless you LIKE it…) and assuming that the walls were prepped well, it is doable. For a brownstone, I think white anything on the outside looks bad. The first thing I would do is paint all of that exterior woodwork black.
A friend told me that Brown Harris Stevens thinks of itself as a high end real estate firm and that its policy is not to photograph bedrooms or bathrooms.
Well, I bet the bedroom is blue.
Oh, and whoever said that Serge never says anything positive on this site, Serge is a great contributor to this site and has lots of very helpful information. I love to see his comments. He has a unique perspective on Brooklyn.
to 4:39
I think there are relatively few Spanish people in the area, most of the immigrants are non-European from the Caribean and other parts of northern Latin America. There are also many impoverished American families in the run-down houses and projects nearby.
New owners always paint anyway. I think it’s a bad idea to paint everything white before selling, because that’s just one more layer o’paint to crust things up in an old house. If the buyer loves the colors as they are, all the better. Plus if the seller hired an expensive interior designer to choose the colors, why cover up the work? Even if it’s not to someone’s taste, to me it always stands out as upscale when it’s a professional designer’s work. When a room looks “designed” like these rooms do.
“Anon at 2:44 p.m.: it boggles my mind that you’re making 400-600k per year but choose to rent. Surely at that income level, you could find something to your liking in Brooklyn?”
Maybe he/she just feels that prices are out of whack. He’s not alone, and maybe renting affords him a lifestyle that a huge mortgage payment and endless maintenance of an old house would not. Face it, NY has always been a renter town – my parents had a friend who was a multimillionaire – he lived in the same huge Park Ave. rental that he grew up in – paid one of those ridiculous low rents b/c it was rent controlled. And I’m sure he found plenty of other ways to invest, considering his substantial wealth. He certainly wasn’t crying about losing out on a mythical tax break there.