House of the Day: 1306 Albemarle Road
One word: Droolworthy! This house at 1306 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South is the perfect poster-child for Victorian Flatbush. The 15-room mansion last changed hands twelve years ago; the previous owner lived there for decades. This place has it all: original woodwork, flooring, Tiffany windows, columns, etc. There’s even a five-room office with a…
One word: Droolworthy! This house at 1306 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South is the perfect poster-child for Victorian Flatbush. The 15-room mansion last changed hands twelve years ago; the previous owner lived there for decades. This place has it all: original woodwork, flooring, Tiffany windows, columns, etc. There’s even a five-room office with a separate entrance. Enough talking—just check out the photos. The asking price of $2,595,000 is up there but seems perfectly achievable to us given the infrequency that something like this becomes available. Agree?
1306 Albemarle Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
So if the owners of S. Elliot decided not to sell, you don’t think they would have just deleted the listing from the website instead of putting sold on it?
I don’t agree.
Especially when the home was featured here, knowing that people would be checking back in on it.
That seems way too dishonest, even for Corcoran.
Mary Kay Gallagher does, actually, list what the houses sold for on her website. For instance, the last one in this neighborhood featured on this website you all said was overpriced and too drippy Victorian at $1.69M asking is now listed in her “sold” as having gone for $1.75M and it was far smaller than this and did not have the unique details this house has. This will be a record for the neighborhood if it goes for this. But if this house were in Park Slope or a tony suburb, it would be asking in excess of $5M. It is unique and huge.
Yeah, 2:15 (who responded to my post), I get it! It’s Victorian! It’s supposed to be like that. I’m just saying it’s not for me. And for the record I own a brownstone and have cared for and restored a number of original details, I’m just not a slave to them and my house is, for me, a good mix of old and new. Just so you know, it’s not a choice of either this or some condo that makes you “shudder.”
And thanks to 2:45 (“I could never live in a house like this. I would feel like a doll.”), who said something similar just a lot funnier!
I heard that S. elliot was taken off the market, not sold. And people are right, Corcoran always lists things as “in contract.” I think this is a case where the owners realized that they couldn’t get their dream price and decided not to sell.
Either way, it is irrelevant to this listing which is in a different area. Say what you will, but I would bet this doesn not sell for near the asking. It isn’t the same market was weeks ago. And how many people who can spend 2.6 want to live in Victorian Flatbush? Fort Greene has arrived, in a way that VF most certainly has not. Not matter how much one believes that the current RE meltdown won’t be felt in NYC, everyone is more concerned about putting their money is “safe” neighborhoods. 3.7 in FG is certainly a risk, but not nearly as much as 2.6 in this “still-developing” area.
No, actually this thread is about a Victorian home in PPS.
With regard to the S. Elliot Place house, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I highly doubt that if the home was highlighted as a house of the day on Brownstoner 6 days ago that the owners would have taken an offer much less than the asking price. Most people were saying it was listed a million dollars too high.
Do YOU think it sold for 2.7 million if it really did sell?
Nope. Probably not. Which means that 99.9% of posters on that thread don’t know their ass from their elbow when it comes to real estate.
Yeah, exactly. So why are you so ready to jump to the conclusion that it sold for $3.7 million — which is, after all, what this thread is about?
they never list how much properties are sold for on a real estate website.
get a clue.
I love it: “just click on the link.” Is there any detail on the linked page about how much it sold for, whether, as 3:16 suggests, it “sold” to a friend or family member, etc.? No, just a big sign that says SOLD. Oh well, I guess we were all wrong, and it sold for $3.7 million in two days. Hurrah! The market is booming again! Three cheers for Jerry Minsky!
Ever think that Minsky purposely put a huge “SOLD” sign on the listing instead of the usual “in contract” as a nose up to all the brownstoners who admonished the price!?
I would not be surprised and good for him for selling it so fast.
I bet he’s gonna be a busy man.