House of the Day: 95 Devoe Street FSBO
If the owner of this FSBO offering at 95 Devoe Street isn’t a professional stylist or interior designer, she should think about a career change. As far as we can tell, she’s taken a relatively unremarkable Williamsburg row house and turned it into a charming home ready for a magazine shoot. And for her work,…
If the owner of this FSBO offering at 95 Devoe Street isn’t a professional stylist or interior designer, she should think about a career change. As far as we can tell, she’s taken a relatively unremarkable Williamsburg row house and turned it into a charming home ready for a magazine shoot. And for her work, it’s looking like she’ll make some money. The four-story, two-family house was purchased for $640,000 in 2004, according to public records. The asking price now? $1,700,000. The owner is listing it herself but offering a 2.5% fee to brokers who bring a buyer to the table. We’ll confess to not being too up on the comps for this area. It’s gotta be on the very high end, but then again it’s probably a lot nicer than most of the houses that come to market around here.
95 Devoe Street [FSBO] GMAP P*Shark
They should have just rounded off the price to $2m. Why stop at $1.7m? Or, if they really wanted to test the market, make it $5m. I heard foreigners are snapping up damn near anything at any price.
The area is not Dogpatch. It isn’t a genteel area either, it is just reg’ler working-class Brooklyn. The owner did a commendable job in spiffying up the house. I would only add two things; the windows should be wood, six-over-six, and the stoop and railings should also be wooden. The interiors are very clean and sharp. I prefer to have old-timey mantels around a fireplace but the bare brick works here.
This would sell in a flash in one of the gentrifying neibs but I’m not so sure about Devoe St. It would be interesting to check back in a couple of months.
The similar one that was for sale a few months ago was 45 Powers St. On for $1.45M…Anyone know how much it actually sold for? This one seems like a cheap reno (granted I can’t really see much detail from the pics). It has a kitchen with a poor layout and no high end finishes, only 1.5 baths in what seems orginal condition, and IF that is vinyl siding shame on them! I’ll give them points for the staging and obviously there is a photographer/set designer in the family.
7:52 sounds like she knows her stuff. The sad thing is this might sell for over a million (but not $1.2) but that Adams family mansion on Orient Ave is going to be torn down. The other sad thing, (well aside from the house I didn’t buy on Powers in 1996 for $130,000), is that with all of the elderly Italians selling and all of the construction and demolition going on, the good things about this neighborhood are mostly gone. And I’ve heard crime is up. Good schools — yes. Two blocks from the BQE? Also yes.
I am also amazed by the cookie cutter sameness of all of this faux mid-century design. Does no one have any original taste?
1.2 million in dogpatch? for a hideous house that looks like it was last inhabited by the Adams Family after they suffered financial reverses?
Ha Ha Ha!
It’s not a bad neighborhood at all and this is a pretty block (if you like frame houses) but these people are greedy bastards for asking this kind of price. There was a similar two-family for sale in the same area about a year ago for $1.45 million, and that one had a *swimming pool* in the back yard–and that was during the peak of the market. I can’t see how this pig sells for more than $1.2 million, and that’s being incredibly generous.
is it purgatory? sorry, I’m watching tv, the fingers are not exactly connected to the spelling part of the brain at all times.
why can’t anyone spell?
ridiculous overpriced dump in a pergatory of a neighborhood.