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
“I bet 50% of the people in Manhattan have never heard of Park Slope”
You lost your arguement here.
I’d say more like 10%.
There are as many Clinton Hill “haters” as there are people who think the world revolves around Clinton Hill.
It’s nice…sure..parts of Clinton Ave are great…no doubt.
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.
I am a dwarf and I could fully utilize that top-floor space. . .
Since I am so small, I really wouldn’t get in the way of the owner when they are going up and down the stairs to their bedrooms, either.
So go ahead and spend $3M on this well-designed space!
2:02 — The marked has changed? In one week? I dont think so.
monthly nut is over 18K a month. . . wow. So if New Yorks spend have their income on housing, this buyer is making 430K a year.
House seems to be expensive to me. But a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan for 1 million seems expensive to me. I bought a house on Putnam Avenue 6 years ago for less than 300k. Drug dealers and prostitutes walk down my street – as well as a lot of really nice people. Now where I live, that is Fringe. When I walk back to Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill, where I used to live, well, that’s not fringe (to me). Mansions, the Bishop of Brooklyn’s house, the President of Pratt’s House, line one of the prettier streets in New York. 2:40, I really don’t get (and am bored by, tho here I am replying) with the recent need by Park Slopers (or children in Akron Ohio) to sniff at houses in Fort Greene or Clinton Hill. Without knowing who you are and where you hang out, who are you to claim anyone else’s world view is more limitted than your own. Clinton Hill was on my radar screen ten years ago when I bought my apartment for 85k and sold it for 340k three years later. There is no grand scheme of things. Just very many different groups and populations who exist in the same city, but have very different views of what is important or not. I bet 50% of the people in Manhattan have never heard of Park Slope or have no idea where it really is. Does that make it fringe? When I was 23 and first in New York I didn’t know where it was. Did that make it fringe? No, it just made me ignorant.
corcoran is always pushing their prices it seems to me. think that they usually overprice.
I meant below 14th Street:)
Or, below 34th!