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
6:26 is the best and most salient post on this silly thread
I prefer asstards and hatfucks
The garden is tiny.
The bathroom has little appeal.
I do see the steel fridge (think fingerprints)
What’s a likely rate for the rental? That couold help with the mortgage!
Too rich for me. Some friends bought on Carroll between Clinton and Court for $20,000. In the ’70s.
I know a guy who is a hedge fund worker. He bought a house a block from me… in Crown Heights. I guess he’s not the manager. Helluva nice guy though. Someday my house will sell for $3 million, if its still standing in thirty years.
I think asshat could be word of the year. I wonder if The What invented it or just made it famous.
There haven’t been any sales of 1, 2 or 3 family houses in Carroll Gardens above $3 million in the past 2 years. I didn’t bother looking further back than that. In 2007, only three sales above $2 million ($2,860,000, $2,515,000 and $2,350,000), and four sales above $2M in 2006 (none higher than $2.5M). And that’s just looking at the sale prices, without even bothering to compare for size, location, condition, etc.
This property needs a MINIMUM 35% discount.
Tell me again, just exactly what do brokers do to earn their 6%? Took me about 10 minutes to find this info on nyc.gov.
wife of 7:15 here. if anyone cares….my husband refers to the $4.4 m house on Garden Place – want to say it is 19 Garden Place – the tudor – Brown Harris Stevens listing. it is amazing space, but needs to be renovated. it has been empty for awhile now. we went to open house early November & literally 4 people had signed the sheet & 2 of them listed “walk by” as what brought them there. the broker did some mumbling about foreign money keeping prices up at the high end, but quickly made it clear the price was very negotiable, even pointing out that they had already moved out so would be motivated sellers. have not heard brokers say the words “motivated sellers” in the last 6 years (we’ve been looking on and off that whole time).
to the friend of the hedge-funder – tell your friend to go to that place & offer $3.2, put in $600k to renovate, and live a whole hell of a lot better.
of course people posting here are love brownstones and PS, etc.. but there are people out there that are not on brownstoner who would rather be close to the city. it may not be everyone’s priority but it is for at least some – it’s a legitimate point of view.
obviously, this price is super silly.
Asshats and fucktards
My mistake (7:15 here), it was the Garden Place listing, a house built in the….20’s?
I’m not 7:15–but if it was the Willow street place priced in the high 2s, I can’t imagine they’d accept an offer 35% less than that.