House of the Day: 905 Lincoln Place
Here’s a new listing that probably would have been priced $100,000 or $200,000 higher a few months ago. It’s a three-story, two-family limestone at 905 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights. The block is lovely and the house has amazing wood moldings and floors; no word on the bathrooms and kitchens. Anyway, there’s something refreshingly solid…
Here’s a new listing that probably would have been priced $100,000 or $200,000 higher a few months ago. It’s a three-story, two-family limestone at 905 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights. The block is lovely and the house has amazing wood moldings and floors; no word on the bathrooms and kitchens. Anyway, there’s something refreshingly solid about this one: Beautiful but not grandiose house priced at a level that a non-Wall Street family can afford. Think it’ll go for the asking price?
905 Lincoln Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I have friends who bought a very similar house, same street, but between Nostrand and New York, just about a year ago. They paid high 7’s. Good Luck!
“And, yeah, the block pictured can’t include the house. Look how the rhythm of the cornice colors doesn’t quite match.”
Try taking as walk down that block – it’s the same block! The homes in Crown Heightas have such varying architecture it is not at all unusual to have different colored cornices side-by-side. But, don’t take my word for it – walk down the block.
I had to chuckle at the “best block” comment by the brokers, too. I agree with 1:52, and would extend great blocks to include Dean from Bedford to Kingston, and St. Mark’s between Bklyn and Kingston, as well as most of Park Place.
Floor plan is strange. Maybe at the time it was originally done, one family subdivided for extended family, so certain amenities were shared? Who knows. Those floors are really gorgeous. With new electricity, etc, reconfiguring it to suit the new owner may not be that difficult. I say between 8 and 825K.
1:57, besides being an idiot, also has never seen the block. Both sides of this tree lined block are lined with these attractive limestones and brownstones. One of the houses in the CHN house tour was on this block. Lincoln Place is only one block north of Eastern Parkway, so the subway is literally around the corner, and this is one of those times where the claim that the Bklyn Museum, Botanical Gardens and the Park are only 2 subway stops away, is actually true.
I was at both dean st open houses. The 3.250M one was way overpriced. The broker for the other called Monday to ask if we wanted to put in a bid because they had received one already. Looks like the idiotic corcoran pricing is helping other agents sell their listings.
I can’t imagine ANYONE making an offer on a 3 million dollar Boreum Hill house.
I like Boreum Hill, but you can get a house in prime North Park Slope for that amount or less.
With a park and without the Gowanus Houses or Wyckoff Gardens within spitting distance.
“A Dean Street townhouse that just went on the market for over $3 million had 40 sign-ins at the first open house”
I was at that open house and signed in.I didn’t make an offer and no one else did as far as I know so what’s the point you keep trying to make since yesterday?
“Boerum Hill prices are down? A Dean Street townhouse that just went on the market for over $3 million had 40 sign-ins at the first open house.”
We know….you told us that yesterday. Thanks Mr. Broker.
And not a smart one at that. So Boreum Hill prices can’t go down because ONE house in Boreum Hill is ON SALE (NOT SOLD!) for 3 million?
Lord.
Most of those “sign-in’s” at the open house were nosy neighbors, btw.
If I were keeping kosher, I would at least want the two kitchens to be within steps of each other, and not on separate floors. And what’s up with those bedrooms right off of the kitchen?
And, yeah, the block pictured can’t include the house. Look how the rhythm of the cornice colors doesn’t quite match.
This house is a GREAT deal. There are many houses in this neighborhood that have been configured with kitchens in places where they are not supposed to be. We bought a place like that and just took the kitchen out – it really wasnt a big deal at all. This house has excellent features/details and for the price really cannot be beat.
Note that I met Michael E. – one of the realtors – while looking for a house last year and he was one of the ONLY brokers I met who was absolutely straightforward and not pushy and knows the CH area well. I was intrigued by a house he showed us but we finally found another place, but Michael was a great person to deal with and very forthcoming with info, which was the opposite of my experience with most Corcoran brokers….If we hadnt already bought a place I would consider this one surely….the trick is to find out what the rental agreements are with the current tenants and talk to a RE lawyer.