House of the Day: 920 8th Avenue
This five-story brownstone on 8th Avenue just north of 9th Street just hit the Brown Harris Stevens site at $3.25 million but there’s scant info and no photos as yet. Judging from the crappy windows and the fact that this is a four-family house, we’re going to take a flying leap and guess that the…
This five-story brownstone on 8th Avenue just north of 9th Street just hit the Brown Harris Stevens site at $3.25 million but there’s scant info and no photos as yet. Judging from the crappy windows and the fact that this is a four-family house, we’re going to take a flying leap and guess that the interiors are not in pristine shape; conversion to a one- or two-family would be a sizable (and expensive) job. While this is a very generously-sized, old-school brownstone, we think it’s going to have a tough time competing against other Slope houses in the $3 million-plus market. How do you think it stacks up against 52 Montgomery Place at $3.675 million or 527 Third Street at $3.4 million? Then again, it may not be a fair comparison: The likely buyer for this place may be a developer who will create five million-dollar-plus floor-through apartments.
920 8th Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
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Whatever happened to this townhouse? It was posted on Brown Harris Stevens for a little while, but it’s gone already. Does anyone know if it was sold, or just pulled from the market for some reason?
Our co-op was in a similar type of building in North Park Slope, but a brownstone not brick, and it’s true they were built as flats. Not houses. There are a ton of apartment buildings like this in Park Slope.
“There’s been construction going on at this site for months so some sort of renovation has taken place.”
No, that’s the building two houses to the right, where the condos are on the market for 800 something to 900 something.
“How about we start seeing some houses of the day that are affordable to everyday people?”
This website is about brownstone Brooklyn. Everyday people can’t afford these houses. Those days are over.
There’s been construction going on at this site for months so some sort of renovation has taken place.
This is a five story five family brick house (with brownstone at the garden level) built as flats, not as a single family house. The price is out of line, but if someone will pay it, it isn’t, so time will tell. I’ll take a wild guess and say that the interior is not at all comparable to other houses nearby in that range.
“Judging from the crappy windows and the fact that this is a four-family house, we’re going to take a flying leap and guess that the interiors are not in pristine shape; conversion to a one- or two-family would be a sizable (and expensive) job.”
Brownstoner, please stop. Not every 20′ wide townhouse in brooklyn needs to be converted to a single family (with appropriate details, of course)
thing is…even if you turn these into 5 floor thrus, at 3.5 million dollars, you’ll probably need what…at least 500K-1 million to renovate and then you aren’t looking at a huge profit if you sell for a million a floor…
I thought they were alternating brick and brownstone facades, but maybe they are alternating light brick and dark brick. Either way, a nice row of flats buildings. porbably circa 1896.
The thing to do here would be to join two or more of them so you could put in an elevator and second means of egress inside.