House of the Day: 128 Lincoln Place
Prostitutes aren’t the only ones abandoning Lincoln Place. The block between 6th and 7th Avenues currently has three houses that just hit the market in the high $2 millions. At 104 and 108 (listed for $2.995 million and $2.8 million, respectively) Brown Harris Stevens and Corcoran are sharing the honors. And at today’s House of…
Prostitutes aren’t the only ones abandoning Lincoln Place. The block between 6th and 7th Avenues currently has three houses that just hit the market in the high $2 millions. At 104 and 108 (listed for $2.995 million and $2.8 million, respectively) Brown Harris Stevens and Corcoran are sharing the honors. And at today’s House of the Day, 128 Lincoln Place, Corcoran’s flying solo, asking $2.75 million for the two-family, four-story brownsone. It looks pretty nice to us. Is there anyone who’s been in all three houses that can compare and contrast?
128 Lincoln Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
104 Lincoln Place: BHS/Corcoran
108 Lincoln Place: Corcoran/BHS
Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
This house is nice enough, but nothing special. If it had its original iron stoop balustrade AND that fifth floor dormer (see two houses to the left in photo), I’d take it in a heartbeat.
5:10 – good theory. When is oil going to hit $150, by the way? Do you have ANY idea how much oil traders/speculators have propped up current levels (or how much is a function of a weak dollar?).
We can both guess and be wrong about oil prices, however there are a couple of more important points you need to recognize:
1. Urban living has not been, isn’t, and will not be a function of gasoline prices. Not until Mad Max is mayor. There has been MINIMAL price elasticity on gasoline in this country.
2. HEVs – hybrid electric vehicles. Lots more coming.
Now, if your argument had centered around the issue of traffic congestion, I might nod in agreement. But you didn’t think of that.
Is it true…someone told me this weekend at an open house that Park Slope was named one of the top 10 neighborhoods in the country?
4:34 Here –
4:42, Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but gas prices being detached from oil is very very short term. You think when Oil is over $100, $125, $150, etc., gas prices will not respond? Maybe the government will step in and just sell gas to everyone at a steep loss…Oops that wont work either because they will just have to tax people to pay for it – And 3 guesses who will resist the most -That’s right, urbanites like us sick of subsidizing the suburban SUV drivers.
No matter how you slice it, oil is going away fast, and urbanization is going to be back big time. Maybe all that corn in the midwest will save us? Fat chance – You would need to cover the entire United States in corn fields just to supply a quarter of our current oil demand.
4:34 I’m with you.
Some people think the trend back to cities is a fad.
It is not.
It will only become more and more necessary for the world to become increasingly urbanized.
We’ve done more damage to the environment in the last 40 years through suburbanization than in the previous 200.
It’s nice to see someone else paying attention…high oil prices or not.
heard there are multiple offers on two of the lincoln place homes.
4:48- very good question!
I’m not familiar with the methodology for the Corcoran report–but uh, is there an independent entity that verifies the Corcoran(and any other brokerage-initiated)data & findings?
Hey there 1:53/3:07: 3 new listings that ARE NOT the 3 Lincoln Place houses, meaning a total of 6 NEW PS listings in less than 1 week. So there is no shortage right now, quite the opposite, especially factoring in the PS houses that have been SITTING FOR MONTHS.