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
the plumbing may be old in these buildings, but the neighborhood is on a hill and rarely floods. there were some crazy rains last winter that had some water in some basements from city sewage backup, but the old-timers said it was the first time their basements got wet in 25+ years. also, it’s got a very low flood risk, something I learned when purchasing insurance.
I am poster 7:52, and to preempt the crap, not a real estate agent or worker in the field. just an informed, enthusiastic and long-time resident of the area.
Friends of mine lived on this block for 6 months before learning that their basement apt. floods during rain and that many other buildings on this block suffer from the same problem. The plumbing in these buildings from the houses to the city system is old and problematic.
I love the interior, but I hate Williamsburg, purely on an aesthetic level. Also, I can think of much more family friendly neighborhoods. I would far rather shell out this much money for perfection say, in Ditmas Park.
There was another similarly priced and fully renovated house on Powers street just a couple of blocks away (~$1.5 million). Don’t know if it sold or the listing’s been pulled, but that looked like an attempted flip. There are NO comps for this kind of price because:
-just about every 25′ sold in the neighborhood has been a teardown
-the houses being sold in the area have been sold by their original owners, mostly elderly Italians
On the other hand, there have been a handful of condos that have sold over the $1 million dollar mark. One of them is on my block–the penthouse of 219 Withers sold for $1.3 million, and it’s a no service building.
There are young families everywhere in the neighborhood, and the cars are getting nicer too as the condo projects finish and sell.
No way in hell they get that kind of money for this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they could swing $1.25. It’s big, fully and tastefully renovated and on a pretty block. PS 132 is undergoing an incredible transition to being one of Brooklyn’s elite schools, and there is an ever increasing amount of stuff to do and eat in the Graham/Lorimer area. Love it here, and now that I’m a family man I far prefer it the Bedford area (which is about a 7 minute walk from this house).
There was another similarly priced and fully renovated house on Powers street just a couple of blocks away (~$1.5 million). Don’t know if it sold or the listing’s been pulled, but that looked like an attempted flip. There are NO comps for this kind of price because:
-just about every 25′ sold in the neighborhood has been a teardown
-the houses being sold in the area have been sold by their original owners, mostly elderly Italians
On the other hand, there have been a handful of condos that have sold over the $1 million dollar mark. One of them is on my block–the penthouse of 219 Withers sold for $1.3 million, and it’s a no service building.
There are young families everywhere in the neighborhood, and the cars are getting nicer too as the condo projects finish and sell.
No way in hell they get that kind of money for this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they could swing $1.25. It’s big, fully and tastefully renovated and on a pretty block. PS 132 is undergoing an incredible transition to being one of Brooklyn’s elite schools, and there is an ever increasing amount of stuff to do and eat in the Graham/Lorimer area. Love it here, and now that I’m a family man I far prefer it the Bedford area (which is about a 7 minute walk from this house).
jennifer connelly was born and raised in brooklyn heights
whats with that weird angled garden plot line along the whole block south of devoe?(zoom up oin the google map)
I agree, Johnife, about lazy thinking. And no I have no first hand confirmation that is vinyl rather than reclaimed teak or what have you.
But I am going by the photos and that ain’t limestone. 🙂 And 1.7 is 1.7.
I know I’m beating a dead horse here, but there are now five or six pejorative references to vinyl or aluminum siding with absolutely no eyewitness evidence to back them up. I have no idea why I’m surprised, having many times seen speculation turn to accepted fact within a dozen posts elsewhere on this blog, but it drives me nuts to see such lack of critical thought and skepticism and appalls me when I project such laziness to its impact on matters of much more import to this nation than a modest house in Brooklyn.