House of the Day: 44 1st Place
The four-story house at 44 1st Place may indeed be one of the “Grand Dames” of Carroll Gardens, as the listing claims, but is it the house to break the $1,000 a foot barrier in Carroll Gardens it’s looking like a big stretch to us. It’s hard not to get excited by the parlor floor…
The four-story house at 44 1st Place may indeed be one of the “Grand Dames” of Carroll Gardens, as the listing claims, but is it the house to break the $1,000 a foot barrier in Carroll Gardens it’s looking like a big stretch to us. It’s hard not to get excited by the parlor floor detail but some of the other finishes (the ground-floor kitchen, for example) leave us a little limp. Seems that to get anywhere close to the asking price of $3,842,500 this place would have to be absolute perfection throughout, which it’s clearly not. More power them if they can get this price but we think they’re off by a good million bucks.
44 1st Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
I grew up at 99 First Place — my family lived in the parlour floor apartment. The brownstone for sale is not one of the nicer brownstones on First Place. My aunt’s brownstone, at 5 First Place (between Henry & Clinton Streets; sold in 1981 for $165,000 — read it and weep) was in much better condition and had many original features intact. 99 First Place (between Clinton & Court) is, sadly, in bad shape. Anyone know who owns it and what he/she plans to do with it?
1 – This house is ridiculously overpriced.
2 – Park Slope and Carrol Gardens are so similar that the back and forth bickering is actually quite silly.
If interest in a nabe is pumping up the value, then everyone on brownstoner is guilty.
No not like pumping the value. This is the value that Brownstoner himself thought it should be. He originally assumed the house was 4000 sq. ft. at $3.8 million and thought that it was $1 million over priced. So he believed the market value was $700 per sq. ft. which is what it is selling for.
you mean like pumping up the values in the nabe?
more like an interest in the neighborhood.
Hmm, lots of people with vested interest in the house on the board. Just identify yourselves.
When Brownstoner admitted they were wrong about the sqaure footage and price per square foot, they should have also admitted they were wrong about it being 1 million over priced. In fact if they originally thought it was $1 million over priced, then with the correct square footage the price would fall exactly where brownstoner would have originally expected it to be.
Brownstoner, I think it was irresponsible of you to erase the original part of your post and not erase the latter part about it being a $1 million over priced.
To claim that it is 1.5 million overpriced is just ridiculous and you are being purposefully troll like and argumentative. That would bring the value down to $480 a sq. ft. which people pay more for on the other side of the BQE.