House of the Day: Willow Place on the Cheap
The same person has owned this brick townhouse at 39 Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights since 1974, which might explain why it’s priced so cheaply. The photos in the listings, however, show that the house is in decent shape, though certainly lacking the jaw-dropping interiors of some houses in the area. Still, $2.5 million for…
The same person has owned this brick townhouse at 39 Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights since 1974, which might explain why it’s priced so cheaply. The photos in the listings, however, show that the house is in decent shape, though certainly lacking the jaw-dropping interiors of some houses in the area. Still, $2.5 million for a 25-footer in Brooklyn Heights? Not only that, but the price was dropped from $2,775,000 within ten days of it hitting the market earlier this month. What gives? What’s the catch?
39 Willow Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
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This house sold in July 2007 for $3.5M
Anon 11:17,
1. I’m merely calling a spade a spade–or in this case, a moron a moron.
Funny how you chastise me for calling people names then proceed to suggest that my parents were somehow negligent, that I’m not “self-actualized” and have “issues”, and that I’m a “spoiled lonely child”.
Wow. Didn’t YOUR mommy teach you to the meaning of hypocrisy?
2. I’ve owned my home for years. I’m not tremendously concerned with good OR bad news concerning price fluctuations since I have no intention of selling. It’s just very irritating when morons spread falsehoods (ie, that Manhattan TH prices have fallen when every news source reports a rise).
3. Am I a real estate broker? God no. Besides the fact that I have more than a middle school education (which makes me overqualified to be a broker), I think they’re utterly useless bottom-feeding scum with zero ethics.
Of course, the 99% of brokers who are moronic simpletons (like old realtor) ruin it for the other 1%.
My beef? I’m annoyed by morons. You included. So fuck off. Or was that too harsh for your delicate sensibilities?
Anon 2:19,
I won’t call you any names because I stopped doing that when I grew up. Didn’t your mother ever teach you manners? You might want to visit a professional to work out those anger issues. It’s not normal to call people insultful names for disagreeing with you. It makes you sound like a spoiled lonely child.
Or are you just angry because you paid a lot recently for a property, as Old Realtor suggests, and you don’t like hearing bad news?
Or are you a real estate agent pissed off because business is slow?
What’s your beef?
Anonymous at 1:18, that was a truly idiot, nonsensical post. Were you drunk or high when you wrote that? Or are you just a moron?
Are you related to old realtor by any chance?
Please point out the article regarding the drop in Manhattan townhouse values, because I don’t think it exists.
According to every source I could find, the median prices of Manhattan townhouses were HIGHER than the year before:
http://www.therealdeal.net/issues/NOVEMBER_2006/1162318656.php
I’d post the link to the Bloomberg article where it stated that Manhattan townhouse prices rose 63% (from mid-2005 to mid-2006), but I don’t think I need to point out any further what an imbecile you are.
According to the NYT, manhattan THs have
lost eight percent of their value in the
last year. Is Brooklyn following the
curve, or making its own curve. Is it a
great deal, or are you paying too much.
I can understand if you bought in the last three years you could be sweating.
Do you need to make money on your home,
what if it only worth ten percent more than you paid for it. Is that the worst thing that could happen. Do you feel richer in a bull market than a bear
market. I know a psychotherapistwho only gets 500 per hour the first visit.
He lives in Park Slpe, paid seventy five
dollars a sq. ft. years and years ago.
It’s so easy to rattle your tree.
Who started this rumor that the houses on Willow Place and Columbia Place have structural damage from the BQE traffic?
The only reason that the house at 42 Willow Place had been braced is that it was, for many years (until 1964), bordered on both sides by empty lots. It was in 1964 that construction started on the cinderblock buildings that now border it.
The subway does run under Joralemon Street causing some trembling in the houses along Joralemon Street and the first few houses on Willow Place and Columbia Place NEAR Joralemon St.
Both 39 and 42 Willow Place are far enough away from Joralemon not to feel any vibration – almost 2 full city blocks away.
And, for those of you who think you know it all, there is a difference between Willow PLACE and Willow STREET. If you don’t know the difference, you shouldn’t even be posting here.
We left the village in 1970, and bought in Park Slope. Two salaried civil servants,we could not afford the Slope today. Salaries haven’t kept up with real estate prices. I believe the market was fueled by itself. Selling high, buying bigger with the profits, is a theme running through all neighborhoods. I Don’t
see the value today. I really don’t. I am glad brokers are telling me that I can receive over two mill for my house.
I still think it’s all crazy. We will eventually reverse move, and move back to the city into a smaller space.
Wow, everyone seems to be frothing at the checkbook. Sorry, many of you have paid too much for your digs. Many of you were
caught up in the frenzy.Yes, your house is
a very important investment, but more importantly it is the place you live. Be happy, stop worrying about sticker shock.
Yes, realtors get together and laugh at market prices. In 1955, houses in Carroll Gardens were selling for five grand. No one wanted to live there except poor blue collar workets. In 1976
you could buy a limastone in Park Slope for twenty grand. Please stop comparing
Brooklyn to Manhattan, only a non=native
could, would be guilty of such a somparison.
Have a wonderful life, stop worrying about real estate.
If you think you paid too much, you probably did. So what, you are living in your investment.
The Realtor
Wow, everyone seems to be frothing at the checkbook. Sorry, many of you have paid too much for your digs. Many of you were
caught up in the frenzy.Yes, your house is
a very important investment, but more importantly it is the place you live. Be happy, stop worrying about sticker shock.
To the young man who was worried about my spelling mistakes, don’t be. Worry about the price you paid for your cozy
digs. Yes, realtors get together and laugh at market prices. In 1955, houses in Carroll Gardens were selling for five grand. No one wanted to live there except poor blue collar workets. In 1976
you could buy a limastone in Park Slope for twenty grand.
Have a wonderful life, stop worrying about real estate.
If you think you paid too much, you probably did. So what, you are living in your investment.
The Realtor