House of the Day: 81 Hall Street
You’d be hard-pressed to find a cheaper house in Clinton Hill than 81 Hall Street, a $699,000 blue light special between Myrtle and Park Avenues. The 2,300-square-foot two-family is obviously in dire need of some TLC (the only interior shot available is this one of the ceiling), but perhaps it’ll make sense for some ambitious…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a cheaper house in Clinton Hill than 81 Hall Street, a $699,000 blue light special between Myrtle and Park Avenues. The 2,300-square-foot two-family is obviously in dire need of some TLC (the only interior shot available is this one of the ceiling), but perhaps it’ll make sense for some ambitious do-it-yourselfer. Alternatively, it’s also significantly underbuilt, so there’s definitely the opportunity for a more ambitious makeover with rooftop and/or rear addition. From what we can tell, the property’s been in the same family for the last three decades or so. It’s not exactly prime Clinton Hill, though, so it might take a little flexibility on the seller’s part to get this one done.
81 Hall Street [Century 21] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Scott Bintner for PropertyShark
Yes.
Half this price in NYC.
Like I am sure it cost a few years ago before “irrational exuberance” lifted all boats including the leakiest like this.
Half this price? In NYC? Hmmm.
I don’t know who you are 6:25, but perhaps you aren’t the target for this sale. No one I know can afford 1 million dollars for a house. This is doable, if not as pornographic as many HOD’s. It is houses like this and streets like this which are accessible to many “middle class” New Yorkers hoping to get a toehold in this city. With some imagination, maybe you can even make it ineresting – the block has some realy funky (in a good way) houses rehabbed by artists years ago.
HOD,.. eeew!. The seller should be the one paying someone to take it off their hands. If they pay me I still wouldn’t move my family there.
“I mean, whaddya expect for a single family home in Bklyn?”
I expect houses like this to be selling for half this price within three years. That’s what I expect.
That block of Hall is actually pretty good in its way. The houses were not built as grandly as those a couple blocks south, and yes, obviously, many of them are covered in vinyl or tarpaper. But there are trees, there’s parking, you’re right next to tons of nice stores and restaurants on Myrtle, half a block from the not-great-but-not-terrible Associated grocery, and you’re paying HALF what you’d pay for a brownstone just a little closer to Pratt. BQE is close, but you’re not going to hear it or live under it, so who cares? I mean, whaddya expect for a single family home in Bklyn?
ugly house in non-prime area of fringe neighborhood.
500K in a year.
I’m looking up alternate definitions of “charm.” Hmmm, the antonym makes sense. It must be time for a new thesaurus.
Uh, please don’t drive north on Hall Street. It isn’t two way! (I think the writer may be thinking of Waverly! That’s where the garage is.). But I agree, the block has a certain South Brooklyn charm to it – complete with a federal drug bust of a long-time Italian-American resident a while back.
Useless blog.