House of the Day: 500 Marlborough Road
This new listing at 500 Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park West looks like a lay-up at $1,350,000. The three-story Victorian woodie is in excellent shape as far as the original architectural elements go. (Love those parquet floors!) The bathroom and kitchen also look like they’ve been recently redone in a way that fits with the…
This new listing at 500 Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park West looks like a lay-up at $1,350,000. The three-story Victorian woodie is in excellent shape as far as the original architectural elements go. (Love those parquet floors!) The bathroom and kitchen also look like they’ve been recently redone in a way that fits with the overall vibe of the house. There’s also a shared driveway, to boot. Other than the heating bills, what’s not to like? Is there anything negative we’ve glossed over?
500 Marlborough Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
To: guest at August 29, 2007 2:50 PM
“Brownstoner, you’ve gone too light with the gray for everyone else’s comments. Bring it back a notch darker, please.”
I think the text should be white unless you sign in…
Um, all comments on price aside, are you kidding about that kitchen? That is the ugliest kitchen I think I have ever seen.
I also don’t get the idea that people should be expected to pay up for this because it’s of such high quality. This house is a perfectly fine house, of the kind you can find in any college town in the U.S. It’s in nice shape, but there is nothing special or distinctive about it — in sharp contrast to the brownstones you see in CH or Park Slope, which really are exceptional (in the sense that there are few things like them). I understand that real estate is all about location, but the Ditmas Park location is mediocre at best and the house is no better than nice. $1.35 million in a down market? No way.
by the way, you’re also have to consider how long before cortelyou rd improves to any real degree ..
I live around the corner from the over-stuffed tot lot, and got woken up by smashing glass outside last night (not a bottle, what sounded like plate glass, or a windscreen). Three nights before that we heard a screaming argument then gunshots. Gunshots! even if this is a once a year thing its once a year too many for me.
The new farmers market is a plus but I hesitate to call 5 stalls a “farmers market”. The “co-op” shares nothing but the word “co-op” with the park slope co-op. The food at picket fences is frankly pretty bad but doesn’t matter anyway – they are closed now for some kind of make-over. Vox pop is well meaning in a kind of anti-capitalism no airconditioning way but manages to muck up even the simplest order. The bike shop around the corner on coney island avenue needs to keep 3 evil tosa dogs behind the counter, presumably to keep the floor stock nailed down. The toddler clothes shop is closed more often than its open & there isn’t any other store worth mentioning.
The people are super friendly and you’ll see every culture on any given day. I am just being realistic here as well as pointing out that $1.3m already includes an absolutely huge “neighborhood premium” vs the US median house price.
I think it’s a good time to rent for a year.
“It would have listed for more in March. It’s listed for this much now. It’ll go for less, but not a whole lot less.”
That isn’t true that it would have been listed for more in march. The MKG glory house in the historic district featured here to oohs and aahs, was twice as nice as this place & went for 1.65m in march .. but it was worth much more than +$300k over this place: larger garden, more wonderful interior, own free standing garage, historic district, nicer block, larger inside.. etc etc..
And now the market has changed too.
You actually have to earn a good salary now to pull down a mortgage. Not just bring a pile of cash and a smile from your last sale.
This is an ok house, but I bet it was priced by the owner rather than the realtor. He’ll take a slab less to shift it in a month, is my bet.
Subway’s on the other side of the street. You can’t really hear it.
Doesn’t the subway run above ground right behind this house?
2:50-
While 1:54 is busy “sucking it” as you so constructively offer, I thought i might pose the question; Where do you suggest people live? The point is, there is very little- I’ll even say NO- stock of similar quality in the 5 boroughs like that which is available in Ditmas Park and its environs. Houses with character and space. I agree the price may be a bit high, but not by much.