House of the Day: 273 Baltic Street
This listing at 273 Baltic Street is just popped up on Corcoran—unfortunately without any photos. According to the verbiage, it’s “fully renovated,” complete with central air, a Viking range and a custom media center. We’re guessing that this reno leans toward the modern: “The second floor is accessed via a unique hand made hanging metal…
This listing at 273 Baltic Street is just popped up on Corcoran—unfortunately without any photos. According to the verbiage, it’s “fully renovated,” complete with central air, a Viking range and a custom media center. We’re guessing that this reno leans toward the modern: “The second floor is accessed via a unique hand made hanging metal staircase which is supported entirely by it’s wall which gives it the appearance of floating from one level to the next.” For $1,995,000 for a three-story, 16-foot-wide house, the reno better be pretty darn nice. Without any pictorial evidence to the contrary, the price sounds like a reach to us.
273 Baltic Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Actually, I saw this listing show up at least 2 days ago, I remember the staircase description. So they’ve had time to put up pics. Get your assistants and web slaves to work!
“Someday this war’s gonna end. That’d be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren’t looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I’d been back there, and I knew that it just didn’t exist anymore.”
Captain Benjamin L. Willard – Apocalypse Now
The dumb overpriced listing of the day is here! How in the fuck you ask for 1.9??????!!!!!!!!!!! 3 floors????!!!!!!!!!
Folks America is on life support. The Foreign Central Banks are holding olot of this Mortgage crap. Guess what? They are not buying anymore. When they dump that shit, Interest rates will go to the moon.
I pick this up from Salary.com.
0.1 % of households in the US make $ 1,500,000 or more in annual income
1 % of households in the US make $ 350,000 or more in annual income
2.7% of households in the US make $ 200,000 or more in annual income
17 % of households in the US make $ 100,000 or more in annual income
only 5.6 % of individuals in the US make $ 100,000 or more in annual income
94.4% of U.S. individuals do not make $100,000 in annual income
So if we return to normal lending standards, this house will be worth 350,00.
From the Blownmortgage.com Website.
Lennar<---- In the top 5 homebuilders. The large OC homebuilder stunned even the most pessimistic of analysts this morning with a huge 44% drop in revenue last quarter and a near-$1 billion charge for write downs associated with land holdings; a problem that land-hungry homebuilders are going to be facing for a while to come. More Market Watch: For the quarter ended Aug. 31, Lennar said that it swung to a loss of $513.9 million, or $3.25 a share, from net earnings of $206.7 million or $1.30 a share in the year-ago period. Total revenue fell 44% to $2.34 billion as the company delivered 41% fewer homes and the average selling price decreased 6% from the previous year, driven mainly by higher incentives to attract nervous buyers. Lennar said that incentives averaged $46,000 per home in the latest quarter, up from $35,900 a year earlier. New orders fell 48% to 5,804 homes. Now tell me.... as there been any good news on Real Estate lately???? Keep drinking that Kool-Aid! I can't fuck with it, too sweet! Someday this war's gonna end.
Post 2:01 is correct. Cobble Hill technically ends on the west side of Court. This property is between Court & Smith.
maybe every broker doesn’t realize that their listing is going to be raped by those on brownstoner and don’t have the sense of urgency you seem to think uploading pictures on a home is.
get a life.
Yes this is definitely Cobble Hill, and on a very nice block. I think the price is pretty realistic since I just bought a house in CG for 1.16, same width, 10 ft shorter, one less floor and in need of renovation.
Please 2:04! I’ve heard that excuse so many times. Wouldn’t you EXPECT that a when a listing is posted for the world to see that it’s in perfect shape and has its photos included? It’s something so simple–you prepare the listing materials, including the most important element–its pictures–and THEN you post it. A deadline is a deadline, whatever.
2:01 PM:
Carroll Gardens is south of DeGraw.
It is a new listing and often takes realtors some time before getting pics on website.
Hold your prejudgments.
Show me something else in this area in move-in condition for that price.
I would think that with the type of renovations that are being described, there would be a LOT of pictures up! That would certainly drive more foot traffic to the open house I imagine. The renovations sound pretty darn upscale.
But isn’t this really in Carroll Gardens? Why is it being marked as Cobble Hill?
Also, 1:41 – the stairs that they describe have support beams which attach to the ceiling to keep it in place. A lot of really modern houses/apts have this feature. It is supposed to create the look of free floating stairs, and it does save a lot of space underneath the stairs. BUT- I always get nervous with staircases like that. I’ve climbed up them a few times and I always feel like one of the beams is going to snap and topple the stairs. Not ideal.