House of the Day: 9 Lefferts Place
This charmer at 9 Lefferts Place in Clinton Hill is new to market. (In fact we heard that some neighbors already put bids in at the first open house this weekend.) The four-story, three-family brick house has only had a few owners and has a lot of original detail still intact. It’s one of six…
This charmer at 9 Lefferts Place in Clinton Hill is new to market. (In fact we heard that some neighbors already put bids in at the first open house this weekend.) The four-story, three-family brick house has only had a few owners and has a lot of original detail still intact. It’s one of six 22.5-foot-wide houses in a row built by developer William Alexander in the early 1860s. The Craigslist ad describes a “cook’s kitchen” and a landscaped garden but neglects to include any photos. If everything’s in decent shape, the asking price of $1,470,000 seems quite reasonable given the details and generous size (about 4,000 square feet). Thoughts?
9 Lefferts Place [Craigslist] GMAP P*Shark
Having lived on Lefferts Place, it still doesn’t cease to amaze me that any building in this part of Clinton Hill would sell for 1.4. The block-in-question is pretty, reasonably quiet, and most of the neighbors are nice and friendly, but the rate of gentrification is out synch with the current state of the surrounding neighborhood. Drug deals occur regularly on both the block and near-by Fulton. Two people got shot just 2 blocks from Lefferts in 2006. A methodone clinic and flop-house hotel are within 2 blocks. Who are these people who are going to put down a huge down payment to keep the mortgage viable for current neighborhood rental rates? Must a neighborhood that finally got 2 coffee shops in the past 2 years suddenly be overwrought with yuppies?
Having been inside the house, it needs substantial renovation, and may indeed suffer serious strauctural issues. It hasn’t been updated since the 1980s. The top floor apartment might have to be gutted due to the sloping floors. All details in the parlor are original, including the screen and pocket doors, but the ground floor must have been renovated in the late 1970s or 1980s, so needs substantial work. Windows def. need updating. The yard is decent, with concrete, grass, and flower beds, but “landscaped” is a stretch, and you get a view of the back of the post office.
161 is a 45 foot wide lot with a garden that wraps around three sides of the house, no? And I believe the house is upwards of 5000 square feet in size. I have not been inside but I hear it is quite extraordinary
I can’t believe that people on this site are pretending that the only thing CG has over CH is Smith street. I’ll name two other small details: subways and good public schools. Call me crazy, but somehow these seem not insubstantial. CH does have beautiful architecture and diversity, but the reality is most people are buying there because of the prices, not the diversity.
10.47am here. Actually, 161 is even further away, my mistake, between Classon and Grand.
Another house, 63(?) on the Grand to Classon block, sold for $1.45 in the past year or so.
I live on the block. 161 is on the next block between Grand and Classon – and is not twice the size, though 161 is on a longer lot (130 ft I believe versus 100 feet long).
15 sold for 1.495 last year – within a week of fsbo listing they had an accepted offer and closed a few months later. If the bones are good in #9, then this will go quickly. I know some neighbors have put in bids already. We’ll see. The great thing about these houses is the large scale of the rooms since the footprint is a bit wider than average. Great feel on the block with friendly neighbors. Enough of my biased perspective. I’m here for the long haul so I’ll just be happy with more nice neighbors.
If 161 Lefferts sold for 1.45MM and is twice the size, how could this place sell at the same price?
You have got to be kidding me. There has not been a house in Carroll Gardens that has gone for under a million in many years. If this house was in Carroll Gardens it would be going for $1,900,000 and that is very easy for anyone to verify so you aren’t doing yourself any good telling bold face lies. Is that why you guys are so angry about Carroll Gardens? Because the houses their sell for more? Why so much anger?
same size house a few houses down sold for 1.495 last year, fsbo, no open house because they had an accepted an offer in the first week. This will sell easily. Great block.
These boards remind me of the pump and dump stock boards you used to find at the height of the internet bubble. So much animosity. And all because people have their life savings wrapped up in their houses. That or flippers who are seriously in the weeds.