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]
you’re an idiot, 12:48.
most people in manhattan have never heard of cobble hill.
they’ve ALL heard of park slope, and I guarantee you, most prefer it.
Cobble Hill or Park Slope–whatever. The price on this bland house and garage is still ridiculous. Only a fool would pay sticker price on this place.
Seriously – people are on crack the way they always insist that PS is more desirable than Cobble Hill. CH is SO SO much closer to Manhattan and for SO many Manhattanites now considering Bkln, that is absolutely the most important thing. I know MANY people who simply will not consider anything further out than Cobble Hill
The Foer house??!! Foer makes me wanna wretch almost as much as the smug people of Park Slope in general who insist on bad mouthing every neighborhood that threatens to shatter their Sloped sense of paradise.
“Better neighborhood generically speaking” ????
Errr, what exactly does that mean?
I far prefer a simple clean lines of a brick townhouse than the ornate brownstone of the Foer House. Would also prefer to be able to jump in a taxi and get to wall street in fifteen minutes. The neighborhood is just more convenient than the slope.
Here’s a house that ISN’T overlooking the park, as stated, DOESN’T have a carriage house as stated, but rather a garage, DOESN’T seem to have 7000sq ft living space as stated. Makes you kinda wonder, huh?
as a custom cabinet designer recently told me, the REAL money hasn’t even gotten to brooklyn yet – these prices may not be out of the realm of possibility – 100-200K cabinet orders all the time from manhattan and long island – never to rarely from brooklyn. the wall st money comments are all true – hard to imagine what they pay these guys on an annual basis.
You’re right, 10:38. The Foer house is a much grander house in EVERY sense of the word. Just comparing that facade to this one says it all. It was also a longer double lot (by 50 ft). And a better address, and right off the park. No comparison. This house is blah.
The Foer house on Second St. wasn’t quite as wide I believe, but it had a much bigger lot and much grander details: marble, terazzo, a gorgeous conservatory. This is just a big wide house. And that was a much better location (not for everyone, but generically speaking.) They paid less than 6, so I don’t think prices ahve gone up that much in 2 years.