House of the Day: 396 Vanderbilt Avenue
It’ll be interesting to see what 396 Vanderbilt Avenue ultimately sells for. A pristine brownstone in this location could probably fetch the asking price of $1,995,000, but this place falls a little short of that description. The four-story, two-family house has the requisite old moldings and marble fireplaces but some details have been lost and…
It’ll be interesting to see what 396 Vanderbilt Avenue ultimately sells for. A pristine brownstone in this location could probably fetch the asking price of $1,995,000, but this place falls a little short of that description. The four-story, two-family house has the requisite old moldings and marble fireplaces but some details have been lost and the house as a whole will definitely need some renovation. Given all that, we think this is off the mark in the current market by at least 10 percent. If not more.
396 Vanderbilt Avenue [RJ Chappell] GMAP P*Shark
OK back to the house.. it seems to be painted which is good for preserving the brownstone for a while. The ornamental details around the door look great and in place… I am so glad that the original doors are still in the house. So many of you people keep talking about how the house is priced so high. LOOK YOU MISSED THE CHEAP DAYS 10 YEARS AGO GET OVER IT. Houses in Ft. Greene are not cheap anymore no matter what the condition.
I cannot think of a single house in Carroll Gardens with modern security bars on the Parlor level.
The first post on the thread said: “Given the fact that almost no inventory exists in Ft. Greene, Park Slope, Cobble Hill for brownstones at the moment . . .”
I read stuff like this on these threads all the time, but I have no idea what people are talking about. Go to the NYT site, where this very listing was pulled from, and there are at least 30 different townhouses in those neighborhoods listed. Are you really saying that that’s too few properties for a buyer to look at?
Even weirder, people point to the lack of inventory as evidence that the market is still strong. But it’s not. If the market were still strong — that is, if there was still a great deal of demand out there — then supply would rise to meet it, and currently unlisted homes would be put on sale. (Or do you think the number of people who want to sell their homes somehow dramatically dropped between 2006 and 2008?) The fact that people aren’t listing homes for sale is evidence that they know the buyers aren’t there, and they’re waiting until they come back. Could be a long wait if prices don’t adjust, though.
4:13…this was one of the better threads.
what exactly is your beef?
you haven’t seemed to add anything to the thread other than call some people nice, some racist and some bashers.
do you not see the hypocrisy in your post?
you’ve actually added less to the thread than the people who wrote things you didn’t agree with.
Frankly I can’t see why the seemingly normal people keep posting here there are so many rude bashers and racists. I guess the answer is the site is great… shame there is so little fact and so much low quality opinion disguised as fact.
Decorative ironwork on the “garden” level (I’m not s realtor so I call it the basement level) is of course a historically appropriate and even lovely feature of these old homes. It is the bars on the parlor windows, and at the front door, and even on second stories that are hideous and give the impression that the area is unsafe. Child guards are something different altogether. People with these ugly grandfathered bars should understand that in case of emergency they will find themselves caged in the house, modern bars must have a release mechanism by law. Anyway I think these bars are anachronistic and actually unsafe homeowners should try and get rid of them if they feel they possibly can.
re bars on window- we kept them so our little kids didn’t crawl out the parlour floor and splat… not just to deter crime. fyi
whaddup with the dead link, yo?
that was a buzzkill, 2:52.
racist much?