House of the Day: 275 Washington Avenue
Big changes are afoot at 275 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill! After a couple of months in limbo, the 36-foot-wide brownstone mansion is back on the market with a new broker and a new price. The 7,800-square-foot property, which the current owner subdivided from the adjacent lot after his purchase from Pratt for a song…
Big changes are afoot at 275 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill! After a couple of months in limbo, the 36-foot-wide brownstone mansion is back on the market with a new broker and a new price. The 7,800-square-foot property, which the current owner subdivided from the adjacent lot after his purchase from Pratt for a song last June, originally came on the market with Corcoran last September for $3,500,000. It’s now back on with Brown Harris Stevens for $3,200,000. (The carriage house behind it is now on the market with Brooklyn Properties for $2,600,000.) This could be one of the most spectacular homes in Brooklyn, but it’s gonna take a lot of work (and a lot of money).
275 Washington Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Oh my God I actually spit out my coffee when I read the Scooby Doo comment! LOL. It does look like the house on Scooby Doo. Having a four year old helps with that reference too.
Anyway, we were told to look at this place by a broker we’ve been working with and who didn’t seem to know that it’d been on the market for MONTHS already. We’d already walked past several times and nixed it. The main thing detracting from its feasibility (aside from being about 3 hundy over priced and a huge mess/potential money pit) is that it is smack up against a large apt. building which blocks sun and views from front windows. It just looks funny and wedged in there. Really a shame. There is a gorgeous mansion on Clinton Avenue that reminds us of this one, but which has room to breath on both sides and in front. Oh well.
What is being an asshole about being a good business man? I say kudos to someone who can do this.
Was this house ever featured in Scooby Doo?
As told from the mouth of the “Minkster” – The guys who bought the properties from Pratt wanted to build a large condo building including the lot next door, which they also bought. They failed to do their homework and only after they bought did they realize that due to Landmark status they wouldn’t be able to build as large as they wanted. Now after shelling out alot of dough for the properties, they are trying to cover their a$$es by trying to get out and sell at highly inflated prices. The smaller of the carriage houses had an accepted offer, and after 4 months of these guys dragging their feet, while trying to find a better offer, the buyer walked away. There are C of O problems on the carriage houses as well. This whole project is a money pit, in my opinion (not Jerry’s) only a developer with deep, deep pockets will be able to save this one. The buyers refusal to cut their losses and sell for a reasonable price while they could have will only hurt them in the long run.
Less transactions higher average sales price tells me that only really special properties are selling and probably to people with well above average sums of money and/or foreigners.
Not a positive thing. It also means many cannot sell without taking a major bath so nothing happens. Eventually as these people must sell they will be forced to take less (case in point BS) or they will stagnate which isn’t good either…..
WTF is a “blantant flip”?
I hope this bad boy goes for the 3 million! Only positivity can come from that sale. You people are confused and dont know the art of real estate.
Weren’t the carriage houses sold together in February? I believe they were. Is anyone monitoring this site anymore. Take of the moronic, long winded nonsense already.
Can we take a break from tearing each other apart, and tear into the A-Hole who bought a property 8 months ago, split it in half, and put it on the market for double the price –without doing a thing to it? NOT EVEN CLEANING UP THE WEEDS AND CRAP AROUND THE BUILDING? I mean, it takes a really special kind of lazy, delusional creep, doesn’t it, to assume that even though he scammed pratt down to 3 mil (from almost $4m for both properties — Pratt’s original asking price), he believes everyone else should be paying HIM double the money he was willing to pay. For doing nothing. That’s like straight up thievery.
I heard that Pratt had gotten several other offers for the double property but that this guy gave the highest bid, so they went into contract negotiations with him — only to be trapped in them for several months while he basically reneged on his original offer and
forced them to take a 30% hit.
I hope the market screws this guy as much as I know it will. It’s good to know that this particular greedy scumbag will get his comeuppance after all.
“5:24, you really need to get out more. Or stay in and rent Juno, Waitress or a Woody Allen film.”
I get out plenty. You’re one to talk, Biff. You post here CONSTANTLY.
I just said I think the guy is funny, that’s all. You guys need to get over yourselves.