House of the Day: 126 8th Street
You don’t see a lot of these old wood-frames in Gowanus hit the market. Befitting the neighborhood, this 25-footer at 126 8th Street is a bit eccentric but overall we’re liking it. The owners have definitely put their own stamp on the place but have managed to retain lots of old-school charm. Plus, for the…
You don’t see a lot of these old wood-frames in Gowanus hit the market. Befitting the neighborhood, this 25-footer at 126 8th Street is a bit eccentric but overall we’re liking it. The owners have definitely put their own stamp on the place but have managed to retain lots of old-school charm. Plus, for the drivers out there, there’s a curb cut and front-yard parking. Frankly, there’s so little turnover in the immediate area that we’ve got no idea how the asking price of $1,275,000 stacks up. Thoughts?
126 8th Street [Warren Lewis] GMAP P*Shark
No thank you.
Here’s a theory about this market…
There appears to be a lack of inventory in prime parts of park slope (see 7:43 above). My suspicion is that this isn’t because things come on the market and sell really quickly. Rather, I think that owners of prime brownstones who don’t _need_ to sell (not moving, not bankrupt, etc) are no longer trying to cash out. They like their homes, the market has dropped slightly, why sell?
Buyers are still interested in the area, however, and realtors are taking advantage of the lack of inventory by pricing places like this at crazy amounts. I think this will backfire, though, as places like this will just sit on the market and need multiple cuts to move. This will add to the perception that the market is dropping, even though the house was priced far above a reasonable level from the outset.
Just a theory…
most misspelled word? It’s definitely definitely
Come on peeps, this place is the dope shit. You yuppie’s cum and get some punnanie near the sludster. I know y’ll wanna spend $2g’s but i got a special deal at $1.5. Come and see me and I’ll getcha some special magic. Don’t front, hit me up and I’ll hit u for a dollar. This Princeton p-fari aint’ got nuthin’.
Come on peeps, this place is the dope shit. You yuppie’s cum and get some punnanie near the sludster. I know y’ll wanna spend $2g’s but i got a special deal at $1.5. Come and see me and I’ll getcha some special magic. Don’t front, hit me up and I’ll hit u for a dollar. This Princeton p-fari aint’ got nuthin’.
I saw it at the open house, while it has center stairs and 25 ft to work with, and quite a pleasant garden, the interior is extremely weird. It is like an explosion in a kitschy junk shop occurred and embedded all this _stuff_ into every available surface.
After you’ve filled a dumpster with what they’ve done you are left with walls to remove, new kitchens, and making a rental is, to put it nicely, challenging.
Add to the block (probably 20% residential the rest warehouses and rental offices) and that views to nothing but the prospect expressway, plus the prospect of the gowanus rising up and inundating your basement. Well, its going to take that special someone.
That so many people tromped around the open house says more about what is unavailable in the slope now than what this place is like.
Is there a troll at work here?
are there really prosititutes on 2nd ave? I’ve been going all the way to the bronx. Who knew I could stay right in the nabe?
If this is worth 1.3 than we are all crazy. Come on, people don’t buy . Move on rent do anything but do not buy. You are living in GOWANUS, a waterway that is NOT Venice. 1.3 million, think about it..