House of the Day: 535 1st Street Revisited
After Corcoran failed to move it back in 2006 first at $3,500,000 and then at $3,100,000, the limestone mansion at 535 1st Street in Park Slope has just come back on the market for another try with Douglas Elliman. The asking price? $3,675,000. The princely pad is 4,420 square feet large, but we’re not sure…
After Corcoran failed to move it back in 2006 first at $3,500,000 and then at $3,100,000, the limestone mansion at 535 1st Street in Park Slope has just come back on the market for another try with Douglas Elliman. The asking price? $3,675,000. The princely pad is 4,420 square feet large, but we’re not sure why something that failed to sell 18 months ago would now sell for 20% higher in this market. A the very least, it wouldn’t hurt to have some interior photos to look at. (There is one on the old HOTD link below.)
535 1st Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 535 1st Street [Brownstoner]
Nah, you would not need live-in help in a house like this, as long as your wife was chained to the vacuum, the mop, and the kitchen sink.
Sorry folks, we are still seeing deals at record or near record prices. And I’m in no way affiliated with this listing at all.
4200 sqf in the burbs is still gigantic.
Brooklynlove is right. This is not just any ol’ brownstone, people. It’s a limestone mansion on 1st Street. Have you seen the kind of crap that’s listed in the $3 million range? This place at least is special.
“The house in Carroll Gardens, for 2.4 million is a family home that does not require a family of ten to fill it.”
Not sure what CG house for 2.4 you’re talking about. The ones we’ve covered recently on HOTD and on this thread were $3.6 (for a 16 footer), $3.495, and $2.8 (for a 16 footer).
i’m eager to hear the explanations when this place sells for a mint before we hit spring.
this block is untouchable. wrong place to be making your bubble pleas.
same shit every 10 years, and wrong to a greater degree each time.
5:09=5:21=scared broker who keeps posting defensive posts on these threads. I get the feeling more and more that brokers/owners are freaking out about the market at last turning and just don’t want to face reality. I’m an owner by the way whose property has doubled since I bought 5 years ago, so don’t chalk this up to a bitter property-hunter who missed out – it’s just that the writing on the wall is pretty clear, and we can wish it ain’t so but that won’t change anything. Great depression, I strongly doubt, but significant recession – wake up and look at all the papers – it’s pretty hard to avoid…As for those who say, gee just look at the last 5 years, things will just rise rise rise again, my feeling is that there will be significant correction and we will not see such a housing bubble again for a long time. Over the long term, housing is a perfectly fine investment since we all do need to live somewhere, but don’t expect anything close to the returns of the past decade. And I certainly would be in no rush to buy now on the cusp of the market becoming a buyers market…
you’re not very smart, 9:05 if you think you NEED live in help to run a 4200 sf home.
if that’s the case, there are millions of homeowners out there in the burbs who better get on the stick.
This is a mansion for 3.6 million. It is a formal house that will cost a great deal to run. You will need live-in help.
The house in Carroll Gardens, for 2.4 million is a family home that does not require a family of ten to fill it. It could use a cleaning person once a week. And it is on a much quieter, more private seeming street.
I would not want a house this large. I don’t want to end up like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. However, a more intimate, less formal, more manageable brownstone is extremely appealing. Some of us have lived in big houses, They suck the life out of you, I have experienced it. Some of you I think have no idea what running a house like this entails.