House of the Day: 264 St. James Place
After many months of renovation, the house at 264 St. James Place in Clinton Hill hit the market this week. It’s a four-story, three-family brownstone a stone’s throw from Lefferts Place. We don’t have a lot to go on, but like most flip-jobs in this neighborhood, the indications aren’t positive. While the listing on the…
After many months of renovation, the house at 264 St. James Place in Clinton Hill hit the market this week. It’s a four-story, three-family brownstone a stone’s throw from Lefferts Place. We don’t have a lot to go on, but like most flip-jobs in this neighborhood, the indications aren’t positive. While the listing on the BHS site has no photos, the NYT listing has two interior shots, which reveal an schizophrenic mix of old and new. The parlor floor front hall, for example, has a door frame molding that’s been stripped to the original wood, a front door with kind of a vintagey-distressed paint job, on wall of exposed brick and baseboard heating. The garden level kitchen area reveals some similarly strange calls. The flippers bought the house for $862,500 just over a year ago and certainly haven’t put a million bucks into it since. They’re trying to get $1,850,000 for the place but we’d guess they’re off by at least $300,000 given the quality of the renovation.
264 St. James Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
264 St. James Place Listing [NY Times]
“Check it out! Warren Lewis has the same house listed at $2.1 ”
I love how Warren Lewis blocks you from clicking through.
Like they dont want to get caught?
Why would they put exposed brick on that side of the entrance to the parlor? If they wanted exposed brick why not just use the party wall and strip the plaster? Strange
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 flippers bought the house for $862,500 just over a year ago and certainly haven’t put a million bucks into it since. They’re trying to get $1,850,000 for the place but we’d guess they’re off by at least $300,000 given the quality of the renovation.”
“The owner is the same guy who bought the yellow pre-civil war mansion on Lefferts Place and was going to tear it down and build condos before the mansion was landmarked.”
You beat me to the punch! Plus he’s stuck with Lefferts Pl.
How much money this guy burn thru (mort, Reno and CC)??? This house will be on the market for ever. 1.9 Mil yeah righttttttt!
Keep you eyes on this one folks.
Check it out! Warren Lewis has the same house listed at $2.1 and they’re trying to pass it off as Fort Greene. I knew I recognized that ugly facade from another listing.
http://www.warrenlewis.com/cgi-bin/re/re_show.pl?re_command=show&ID=6144
In addition to the weird color, the facades of both houses look bad because they have no cornice.
It also looks like there might have been more detail on the window and door lintels at one time, but to save money the details were just stuccoed over–not uncommon in years past when folks were trying to save a buck.
Brown Harris Stevens listing? How tacky. For a company that has been around since thew 1800’s it s pretty darn ghetto to me.
looks as though they just painted it with a very poorly matched color.
There truly are slim pickins out there… can someone explain what might have been done to the facade to make it look that way? (This is a serious question, I’m not being facetious.)
The house next to it looks equally, if not uglier than this one, if that’s possible.
So if there are other nice houses on the block, these two sure aren’t it.
1.2 million. tops.