House of the Day: $8.75 Million in Cobble Hill?
Holy Moly! This has got to be the nicest house on the market right now. It’s a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival house overlooking Verandah Park in Cobble Hill with a stand-alone carriage house in the rear. All in, it’s got 7,000 square feet of living space and enough parking space for four cars. Judging from the…
Holy Moly! This has got to be the nicest house on the market right now. It’s a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival house overlooking Verandah Park in Cobble Hill with a stand-alone carriage house in the rear. All in, it’s got 7,000 square feet of living space and enough parking space for four cars. Judging from the photos, there’s recently been a top-of-the-line renovation as well that preserved the house’s many original details while creating a beautiful, huge modern kitchen. Okay, so the desirability of the house ain’t in question. How about the price? Think $8.75 million will fly? This would have to be a record for Cobble Hill, wouldn’t it?
Magnificent Townhouse & Carriage House [Brown Harris Stevens]
I was actually going to say that the Safran Foer house IS/WAS worth the 5.75. This one, no way.
re 2:37. it’d be worth $8.75 if it was on the promenade, over looking the harbor in bk heights. even though i agree cobble hill is nicer place to live, the heights still has a 25% premium and is, and always will be, the most expensive brownstone neighborhood in brooklyn. it’s too unique and it has always been more of an upper class neighborhood. there is no way to recreate it.
Even if you are aggressively pricing the house at $5 million, they are asking you to pay close to $4 million for a garage. Come on! That’s insane.
And a 5 story house with only 3 baths?
Like 2:03 said there are a whole lot of mortgages on this house that the seller likely does not want buyers to see.
i don’t even think the carriage house overlooks the park. if you look at propshark it shows the lot is west of the park, so it looks at the houses across narrow verandah place. 5400 sq/ft doesnt include the attic or carriage house. the attic has 2 real bedrooms and great rec space. who cares what it is legally for? the house a a CofO for a 1 fam, they can use it for anything they damn well please!!! study, rec room, media room, or even another bedroom. people always mention what’s legal in townhouse, but who cares, dob doesn’t drop by to inspect private homes. as long as the C of O is legit, you can do anything youw ant in your space and all the bank cares about is the appraisal (they don’t care what’s legal or not) and the C of O. speaking of appraisal there is no way this house will appraise for more than $4.5 and that’s a huge stretch. so the buyers (if there ever are any) better have over $4 million down
I walked by this. It’s a beautiful brownstone on a great block (Warren between Clinton and Henry), but as the PS listing shows, the “carriage house” is a one-story garage on Veranda Place. For $8M you’re presumably going to want somewhere to park the Bentley, so calling it anything other than a garage is pushing it. No way they’ll get close to this price.
Remember when people thought the Foer house was pricey at 5.7? He’s laughing now. That house is something like 7,500 sq/ft, has a 40 x 100 foot garden behind it, and is in a much more desirable location—Park Slope, like it or not, is more valuable than Cobble Hill. And being steps from Brooklyn’s best park isn’t bad, either. Anyway, these prices have to catch up to reality at some point, but it might be that the future owner of this house will laugh at the bargain he got it for.
re: floor plan – I bet that closet looking thing off second bedroom on third floor is a bathroom, they just didn’t bother to fill in details.
If 8.75 is how much a house like this would cost in the Heights, then it is reasonable for Cob Hill, I think the neighbs are pretty much neck and neck in terms of desirability at this point. I for one, and many who know anything about Bklyn would much rather live in Cob H than BH.
So expensive. Must be the 4 car parking – is it worth millions! Seems like these prices are going over the top. Cobble Hill is now so expensive, when newcomers have their house warming parties, the limos are parked outside all evening – I’m not making this up, this was the case on my block this spring.