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
3.5M… sike. I don’t know of any Mrs. Hedge Funders that will let their husband pay this much for a house that far from 5th ave.
“to assume that just because it’s the most expensive does not make it more desireable to a larger section of the population.”
Actually, yes it does. The reason it is expensive is because demand is high. Simple economics.
2:37 = my teenage cousin.
oh and yes…i find carroll gardens FAR more desirable than brooklyn heights.
i’d say most people under 75 would say so also.
i find virtually any neighborhood in brooklyn more desirable than brooklyn heights. to assume that just because it’s the most expensive does not make it more desireable to a larger section of the population.
it just makes it more expensive.
a house like this in brooklyn heights would be 5 million.
clearly you all are a little behind the times.
you all say everything is overpriced.
2:35 = Investor Lou’s mother.
Investor Lou speaks wisely.
2:32–this place will not get anywhere near $3 million, unless, of course, Carroll Gardens has officially become more expensive and desirable than Brooklyn Heights.
If this place gets at least $3m, I’m putting my place on the market!