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
You think it is common to put a sold sign on a property that is trying to be sold?
hmmmm… what interesting logic you have.
I hope you aren’t in sales…
They don’t put sold on the online listing, unless it SOLD.
That doesn’t mean it closed…that takes months. It means they have a signed contract.
And even if it sold for a couple hundred thousand less than asking (which i doubt) that’s still a helluva lot of money.
Please stop with the Bush speak trying to get around the fact that you all said last week the property would never sell.
The fact that you are asking about if the home has closed, means you know nothing about real estate. Closings do not happen in 6 days, but the property is considered sold when the contract has been signed, not at the close.
It’s silly. Just click on the link. The home has been sold.
There is something very fishy about the South Elliot place. The listing itself was removed from the Corcoran website about 4 days ago, soon after being listed. And only today has it reemerged with the SOLD label on it–not even “in contract,” as usually occurs. And right after a weekend?? I bet you it was transferred to a family member or friend, as it was always intended to be, so we’ll never see the actual sale price. It was probably all a ploy by Minsky to make people believe that it sold on the open market. This is a common deceptive practice in RE. Sorry folks. Don’t forget it was ACROSS THE STREET from a humongous high school. Total deception.
On Minsky’s page, it’s in the list of sold properties, not the list of “in contract” properties. I’m not saying it’s not antics –I’m just wondering whether that listing has actually been around for a while, and Brownstoner only noticed it recently.
There is no way the South Elliot house sold for that price, or that it even really sold yet. It might be “in contract”, but no way it closed yet, and definitely not for that dough. It’s just typical Minsky bullshit antics.
I’m a bit perplexed by the whole S. Elliott thing. The Brownstoner posting made it sound like the property had just come on the market. But it is possible that that the deal went into contract and closed in five days, two of which were on the weekend?
here’s the thread from the s. elliot place last week.
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/09/house_of_the_da_368.php
now tell me why i should believe anything anyone says on here.
the comments were so adament that the price was nuts, and now it’s sold 6 days later.
i would have to believe that the place sold for close to ask if it’s already off the market…
I saw a crappy house 1 block and a half away on Argyle (outside of the PPS historic district) sell for recently for 1.45, and the new owner is doing lots of crappy renovations on it. For this nice a house that’s over 5000sf 2.6 doesn’t sound outrageous. Might need to use the 5 room office for the staff you’d need to keep up with this much house.
The place across the street was on the market 2 years ago for a ridiculous $4mil. I don’t know but I’d guess it sold for more than half that.
Here’s what NYT Published: October 17, 2004
“Tara in Prospect Park South
$4,000,000
BROOKLYN: 1305 Albemarle Road
This 20-room, nine-bedroom mansion built in 1905 is on a corner lot. Among its features are six bathrooms with original fixures, gas fireplaces, double parlors, a library with coffered ceiling, a dining room wth original mahogany paneling, a butler’s pantry, a pool room, a grand ballroom with oval windows, and a wine cellar. Mary Kay Gallagher, Mary Kay Gallagher Realty (718) 282-3141; http://www.marykayg.com
TAXES: $7,919
PROS: The house is surrounded by others of equal stature. Southerners will recognize this as the real thing; northerners wil respond to its graceful, familiar architecture. The perfectly scaled rooms are more hospitable than intimidating.
CONS: Prices have started breaking the million-dollar mark, but this list price is far higher than that of any property ever sold here. “
This is a great old upper-crust mansion. Everything looks perfect to me.
One would need a staff to keep this place up (at least two full-time employees and a landscape service as well as carpenters and painters on retainer) but that’s part of living large.
There are very similar houses in the tony suburbs that are about the same price but that are not adjacent to not-so-nice areas. I wonder what would make a stockbroker buy here rather than in Rye, or Darien? Driving in to Manhattan would be easier, but I don’t see Flatbush providing the kind of lifestyle that would match this house. I may be wrong, just asking.