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
3:09 (may I call you “3”? [N. Coward I’m sorry])I wasn’t trying to win an argument, just trying to highlight the stupidity of the “my people have never heard of your people and so your people must have no importance in the world” argument. My complete statement was that 50% of people in Manhattan have never heard of Park Slope or don’t know where it really is. I have no idea if that is true, but I suspect I am closer to the truth than your 10%. Neither of us has done a survey. I guess your point is that a certain class of people (who we both assume might be more likely to drop 3 million on a townhouse) are more likely to have heard of Park Slope than Clinton Hill. Clinton Hill is clearly on the Fringe of YOUR world, but, honey, that doesn’t make it the Fringe of the WHOLE world. It kinda (duh) depends on where your sit, or shit, or something like that. But again, house seems a bit pricy even sitting over in in my crack alley.
let me get this straight, 3:32…
you think new immigrants to this country are more apt to move right from the boat into manhattan???
and you think I’M delusional?
get a clue buddy. most of these new people to the country are moving to queens and brooklyn. they certainly know where park slope is. lots of them have settled along its southern and western borders.
this is a city of immigrants.
3:15,
Aside from one lonely voice, everyone, including those defending the neighborhood, believe that the house is overpriced.
“You lost your arguement here. I’d say more like 10%.”
You’re delusional. Forgetting about the argument itself, statistically speaking, that’s not even possible. 10% of people living in manhattan doesn’t even account for the part of the manhattan population that is still getting acquainted with this country, let alone the city of NY itself.
50% of the people in Manhattan ARE NOT FROM NYC!! Who cares what they’ve heard of?
“It’s also just a hop, skip and a jump from some housing projects, a hefty walk to the trains, little services nearby, a patch of, sketchy schools and a pricetag at least a million dollars over what the previous things lacking should indicate to sane people.”
The border’s of CH, just like every other brooklyn neighborhood, fall into these categories. Except the “hefty walt to the trains”, regardless of which part of Clinton Hill you’re in. The walk to the train is only hefty, if you’re hefty.
i dont hate Clinton Hill I just think this place is overpriced.
I would live there if it was so exspensive and only had the G
I don’t believe people are “sniffing” at homes in Clinton Hill so much as they are “sniffing” at the completely ridiculous prices that people in the neighborhood seem to think they deserve.
3 million for what?
A flipped house with a B-level renovation and moldings ripped out?
Just because it’s Clinton Hill?
Don’t think so bud. Not when homes in neighborhoods which are far more along in the gentrifying process command the same price.