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The five-story, 7,200-square-foot house at 113 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn Heights is being positioned as a make-over candidate by both brokerage firms handling the listing but, frankly, it doesn’t look in such bad shape to us! Perhaps the assumption is that anyone willing and able to plunk down the $5,750,000 asking price for the 25-foot-wide manse will have a certain intolerance for rough charm. Probably something to that. Anyway, it’s under $800 a foot for a prime Heights location so someone’ll probably jump on it. At this price, though, it seems more likely to be a BSD looking for a trophy home than a condo converter.
113 Columbia Heights [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
113 Columbia Heights [Halstead] P*Shark
113 Columbia Heights [Skyline Realty]


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  1. square foot costs are are a crock. Why does it appeal to people? They can’t judge wether they like a house or not withour meaningless numbers? Believe me, square footages are meaningless numbers, they are useful for builders of track homes, but not for buyers of old buildings.

  2. I’m the person asking about $psf for townhouses. While apts in prime areas are expensive, when I do look at comps, it actually seems that townhouses are really expensive too – I’ve looked at few recently and they easily come out to 700-900 psf. This house, before any kind of renovation, is priced at 800 psf and it’s a total gut job. Also, how much are intangibles worth i.e. good school zone, big garden, sunlight, etc.? Or are these impossible questions? It seems kind of hard sometimes to impose logic/reason into the real estate market since sometimes there are big variations in comps, but I wonder if that just has to do with a scarcity of properties…

  3. Brownstones don’t command the same price per square foot as apartments. It’s like a bulk discount. Don’t go by price per sq ft so much–go by comps for similar size, location, and condition.

  4. What is considered a reasonable price per square foot for a renovated brownstone in a prime Bklyn location i.e. Park Slope? I really want to know as we are on the verge of buying one that needs a fair amount of work and I’m trying to calculate whether it’s a good deal. It seems that nice apts can easily go for 800-1000 psf but is the same true for a townhouse, esp if it has a good school zone, big garden etc? Advice greatly appreciated!

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