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
So… end of discussion. The price of this house is 1/2 as much as it’s worth.
Comps were already mentioned–the only ones that exist were almost 1/2 this price.
Really… these comments do not matter at all. Comps first then discuss.
So far, I have been seeing discussion first and hardly any comps!
Let’s get this right. Comps first. Discussion later.
It will help drive this discussion accurately.
No?
definitely a stunt
Housesearcher–that is a perfect comp–thanks.
lol, 2:56 — She can’t do all that with a bugaboo!
“I would expect to pay more in Carroll Gardens than I would for a comparable house in Park Slope for the simple reason that it’s closer to Manhattan.”
That has got to be the most idiotic comment ever. And could only have been typed by the broker or seller. What kind of uninterested person with basic knowledge of the Brooklyn housing market would possibly say that?
OK, I just remembered that the Corcoran house this summer was 3 stories plus an English basement – so not technically a 4-story — but still way, way, way less money that this house. And the location, again, was basically identical. My point remains: the price of this house is absurd.
A sucker is born every minute. For this money, I can afford any place anywhere outside of this former gumbaland pocket.