House of the Day: 274 Clinton Avenue
Has the value of Clinton Hill real estate gone up 50% in the last two years? Don’t think so. But that’s the increase that the seller of 274 Clinton Avenue is looking to make. She bought the five-story house in August of 2005 for $1,925,000 and now has the house back on the market for…
Has the value of Clinton Hill real estate gone up 50% in the last two years? Don’t think so. But that’s the increase that the seller of 274 Clinton Avenue is looking to make. She bought the five-story house in August of 2005 for $1,925,000 and now has the house back on the market for $2,995,000. Of course, from the looks of it, she’s put a fair amount of dough into the renovation, which looks pretty nice. (Our only quibbles are the choice of white for the bannister and the fact that the crown and ceiling moldings are no more.) There’s lots of original woodwork, however, and it’s on a fantastic block. We could see this fetching $2.6 or $2.7 million but would surprised if someone steps up for the full asking price. Stranger things have happened though.
274 Clinton Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
To 8:22,
As a long life Clinton Hill resident for over 40 years, I totally agree with your comment.
Putnam Denizen,8:22here. I’m not a realtor, just a realist. Yeah, my writing is a bit cheesy, sorry. But I am right about the buyers.
Just can’t understand why everyone’s so damned upset.
12:36 what blocks have these? I’m not trying to stalk you, I swear, just your houses. I promise I won’t ring your doorbell and offer money because apparently that’s offensive somehow. I’ll just cruise by now and then looking for realtors’ signs.
3:00 am. If you thought I was deriding you, then you needed to go to bed. I was deriding the breezy prose of the realtor who posted what I parodied. I made no comment negative or positive about the people 8:22 claimed were buying houses in the neighborhood, and who you now confirm exactly exist. What she didn’t say was that they had no sense of humor or prospective. Take a chill pill dude.
P.S. I never told you to f off, only that the people I know wouldn’t be buying a so-so house for 3 million dollars. We can’t afford to, and quite frankly if I had 3 million I could think of a lot better ways to spend it. But you go right ahead and spend your money how you want. It is yours. Until the revolution of course, then, well then we will see….
10:30 and putnamdenizen why do you deride people who appreciate the same neighborhood as you, but happen to have the money to buy into it at today’s prices? PD, I was in diapers when you were stepping over the crack whores you speak of with such respect. Sorry I was too busy learning fractions to buy the apt. you bought for so little and sold for enough to buy your house. Sorry I worked my ass off in school and got a good job that pays an absurd amount of money. I guess I was supposed to stay as poor as my parents (who lived in here decades before you were in diapers) started out. Then you would feel better about my moving in beside you. Problem is, if I had I wouldn’t be able to afford the house your neighbors are selling for millions. Nobody said they were better than you because they had some money or a few degrees. In fact, 8:22 said they liked the houses and the feel of the area – you may be part of what they liked. You are the ones saying you are superior for buying when you did and bemused by those trying to find a house now. Well, F you neighbor. See you at the block party.
2:03 “When I click on floorplan it doesn’t come up.How many brownstones have 2 separate stairwells? I don’t understand.”
Alot of them do. I own a 2-family brownstone that has a true duplex on the garden and parlor levels with its own dedicated staircase and an apartment on the top floor.
On my block, all the brownstones have the same or very similar layouts with dual staircases.
Beautifully put, 10:30.
10:30 – you rock!
I’m 8:22.
That was vulgar, but I had to do it. You can chit chat all you want about values of this hood and values of that hood, and no one wants to come out and actual describe the yucky buyers.
Thanks, Putnamdenizen, for putting it all in perspective. This is precisely what this web site is all about: building the cliche neighborhoods for the cliche buyers.
But we’re all cliches, from you Putnam, to 10:30, to the “load of crap” person who doesn’t have a response except for, well, “load of crap”. We just have to admit that we love this area, for SOME reason, and enjoy it together. The territorialism is lame lame lame lame lame.