House of the Day: 344 Carlton Avenue
Today’s listing at 344 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene is a good example of how to do a listing right: Plenty of well-photographed photos, a floorplan and a comprehensive description. Pretty simple but some brokers still are too lazy or incompetent to do it. Of course, it helps when you have a good product to…
Today’s listing at 344 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene is a good example of how to do a listing right: Plenty of well-photographed photos, a floorplan and a comprehensive description. Pretty simple but some brokers still are too lazy or incompetent to do it. Of course, it helps when you have a good product to pitch, which is certainly the case with this five-story, two-family brownstone at the epicenter of Fort Greene. Will it fetch the asking price of $2,500,000? Hard to say, but it’ll certainly get close to that. It’s in beautiful shape with tons of historic character with tasteful touches of modern convenience. (We like the kitchen, for example.) There’ve been no takers since it hit the market a couple of weeks ago. Have any readers checked it out?
344 Carlton Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
So much for AYE being negative. This price is double what we paid less than 3 years ago around the corner.
3:19, are you implying that a real estate broker could be anything less than 100% ethical? I’m shocked, shocked…
Wow. It is lovely. Is 2.5 mil a good price? Just off track, How times have changed. I lived on that block (355 Carlton)in the early 1980s with a house full of Pratt students. Rent for the whole house just down the way was $900/month! Should have bought.
In my experience, brokers often let you know, without giving specifics, if your offer is likely competitive or not, or if their are offers out there exceeding the asking price. I don’t know if they are supposed to do so, but I can’t really see why it would not be ethically ok to tell a potential buyer, so long as the broker was truthful and explained that an offer does not mean that the seller will go with that particular bidder.
In any event, I wouldn’t be surprised if this place goes for asking, plus or minus a bit.
i could be wrong about this, but when i was buying my place last year, my broker told me that all offers submitted were confidential meaning that if the last poster is telling the truth, his/her broker should not have given out that there was an offer over asking on the table. or the broker of this house shouldn’t have divulged this info to the broker at corcoran/bh.
i don’t mean to imply that you’re lying, but simply wondering if that is indeed true…i could very well have misheard or misunderstood.
I called my broker @ corcoran brooklyn heights office, she says there is an over ask bidding war. Already. 🙁
Its not a lot next door, its a garage and the backyard of the corner house on Lafayette. This is one of the best blocks in Fort Greene since it is very close to the Atlantic subways, yet tucked away and quiet.
It’s not a lot to the right of the building, it is a one story garage for brownstone on the corner of Lafayette and Carlton.
It’s a beautiful place. I used to live a block away.
If the economy holds together and atlantic yards doesn’t turn into a money pit disaster, it could be $4m in 5 years.