House of the Day: 799 Carroll Street
Flip-o-rama! In one of the fastest turnaround’s we’ve ever seen, the owner who closed on this 4,728-square-foot house at 799 Carroll Street for $2,275,000 on November 9 of this year has already put the two-family charmer back on the market for, get this, $2,930,000! It’s obviously a very nice house, but not as stunning as…
Flip-o-rama! In one of the fastest turnaround’s we’ve ever seen, the owner who closed on this 4,728-square-foot house at 799 Carroll Street for $2,275,000 on November 9 of this year has already put the two-family charmer back on the market for, get this, $2,930,000! It’s obviously a very nice house, but not as stunning as some other houses that have come on the market in this price range recently. We’ve got no idea what the seller is thinking will justify the 25% price hike, especially since the market is arguably weaker than when he went into contract earlier this year. Is there a back-story that might explain this?
799 Carroll Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
I gotta say, that photo does make it look like the building has lots of shade from the big apt bldg next door. While I’m sure there is some light somewhere sometimes, there’s no getting around that huge bldg as something that obstructs light.
So far, no one has shed any real light on what justifies the increase of $700K in one month – so it seems silly to talk about comps when the best comp of all is that this house sold for $2.2 a month ago!
Seriously, the snippiest social climbers I’ve known hang their hats in SoCal.
Thank all the deities in the multiverse that SoCal is devoid of snippy social climbers!
7:39pm this is for you:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dPT7q825gwI
I’ve been trying to decide whether to buy a brownstone in Brooklyn or to keep my small Soho apartment and move to Southern California.
Reading your folk’s comments for the last couple years has helped me a lot. I’m gonna move to Southern California.
The Brooklyn of old is gone. Who wants to live amongst a bunch of snippy social climbers anyways?
“The house is on the North side of the street so it will get great light in that big South-facing bay window all day long.”
Bullshit and you know it. Yes, it faces South. But its light is obstructed, as you can see in the picture above, by the large apartment building directly across the street from it. It blocks your nice southern exposure bay window. The picture says it all. That side of the block is getting the great light at that time, and this house and the one next to it are in shadow. Simply look at the third house over, which is not blocked by the building, and you can see the difference.
“This house might not be in permanent shadow, but you will be in the dark for 75% of daylight hours, judging by the side of the street it is on.”
What are you talking about? The house is on the North side of the street so it will get great light in that big South-facing bay window all day long.
Yes, it’s overpriced, but not because it doesn’t get any light. I’ve been in that room I know what I’m talking about.
“the vermeil (sterling/7th) sure is lookin nice these days.”
What’s up with that place? Looks like after going on the market in January, there were no sales for six months, and all of the listing have gone offline. Odd.
4:26, good if you have a nice place. Bad, if you have a bad place.
If you have a nice place and priced well people will say good things on here and you may get more people at your open house.
If your place is really bad (needs lots of work) or is overpriced people on here will rip it to shreads and you have to hope that all potential buyers don’t visit this website.
It can easily go both ways.