House of the Day: 78 3rd Place
When did average-sized houses in Carroll Gardens start being worth over $3 million? Whenever it was, we didn’t get the memo. Last month, it was 44 1st Place, a generally attractive but inconsistent four-story house asking $3,842,500. (One reader wrote us a particularly nasty email about our stance on that post.) Now it’s 78 3rd…
When did average-sized houses in Carroll Gardens start being worth over $3 million? Whenever it was, we didn’t get the memo. Last month, it was 44 1st Place, a generally attractive but inconsistent four-story house asking $3,842,500. (One reader wrote us a particularly nasty email about our stance on that post.) Now it’s 78 3rd Place, a 3,100-square-foot, three-story brick that, while 23-feet-wide and full of charm, doesn’t feel like it’s worth quite $3,495,000. Are we just out of touch with the Carroll Gardens market or sellers overreaching?
78 3rd Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
5:47 – wonderful. 5:36 – it WAS innocent because the person was innocently commenting that they expected to pay more in Carroll Gardens because they like it more. I felt the same way when I first started looking (knowing very little about prices in park slope) so automatically started looking in south slope (because I can abide it, unlike north slope) but then I found MUCH to my surprise, that horrible fringe areas of the slope were AS expensive as prime CG, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill, which was SHOCKING to me. Believe it or not, many people so prefer the CG area to PS that they are really surprised to find out how much cheaper it is than prime park slope. They don’t follow the market, they just make an assumption based on their personal preferences.
i live in new york city to experience things on a larger scale, 5:54.
if you like small neighborhoods, you might want to take a look at something outside of bizmark, north dakota.
thanks 5:46!
I prefer smaller neighborhoods myself, but okay, if you think so.
Maybe they don’t scream on the internet like Slopers because they don’t have to because everyone already knows BH is expensive.
But not Park Slope, no, they have to scream about how wonderful and expensive there neighborhood is as if they were trying to convince themselves along with everyone else.
well if so many people are on here from park slope, that would indicate to me that either there are more people in park slope interested in brownstones, more people passionate about their neighborhood, or just more people, period.
all of which bodes well for park slope in my book.
And that fact that there are so many people from Park Slope on this blog should be a big clue to any reader that you should not believe what you hear on this blog about Park Slope considering they out number every other neighborhood by a magnitude of 5. They swarm every thread like blood sucking mosquitoes buzzing about how wonderful Park Slope is.
There are areas and houses in Brooklyn Heights that are expensive and there are areas and buildings in Brooklyn Heights that are dumps.
RE: Berkeley Place
I don’t have anymore info sadly. I am a neighbor, but the numbers are 193, 221 and 223 Berkeley. All three are between 7th and 8th.
They are not yet for sale, but there is the name of the wife and daughter on 193 if you’d like to do some investigating.
He passed on a few weeks ago now, so it might be a good chance for someone who’s interested to make an offer before they officially go on sale. I have no idea when/if that might be…