House of the Day: 168 Midwood Street
This three-story limestone house at 168 Midwood Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is chock full of old-school details and has been recently renovated to bring the kitchen and baths up to date. It’s got a nice feel to it, which is good because the owner (who’s selling it herself) is trying to sell it for…
This three-story limestone house at 168 Midwood Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is chock full of old-school details and has been recently renovated to bring the kitchen and baths up to date. It’s got a nice feel to it, which is good because the owner (who’s selling it herself) is trying to sell it for almost double what she paid in 2004. The asking price now is $1,350,000, versus $730,000 four years ago. Of course, prices in the nabe have gone up dramatically in that time and she put some dough into the reno. There was an open house yesterday. Did anyone stop by?
168 Midwood Street [FSBO] GMAP P*Shark
I’m not a supermommy — or the previous poster about this — but c’mon, sniping about furnishings when you don’t even know high-end designer pieces when you are shown a picture of it is pathetic.
The pictures aren’t great, but this house looks clean and presentable. You all need to go back to the cave you live in
Park sloper,
You are right. I know this house, and the kitchen windows are south facing. The light streaming in during the day must be glorious.
Dear Owner,
The real problem with the photos is that most of them appear to have been taken at night, making the house look incredibly dark and dingy. If you look at the good photos on the good brokers’ sites, you’ll see that most of them show rooms with lots of natural light streaming in.
You should also update the exterior photo with one that is more current. Showing a photo with snow on the ground just makes it look like the house has been on the market for a long time without selling, whether that’s true or not.
Sincerely,
A Blog Reader Overly Obsessed With The Details of Marketing Brooklyn Real Estate
sorry, I meant “except this one”
This house is much larger than the other houses for sale on the block. The price is typical for three story houses in Lefferts Manor. Of course this house is not worth 1mil. The two story houses sell for almost that. Every house one the block that’s for sale needs work accept this one and one up the street that has stopped having open houses (so probably has a buyer).
Of course this house will get a mortgage. The problem with getting mortgages in this climate has to do with credit scores. Three story houses in Lefferts Manor are rare to come to market, but they always sell (if they need no renovation) for between 1.2-1.3.
Severval people who own houses on the block came directly from Manhattan, to the theory that a buyer wouldn’t come from there is wrong.
A dutch staircase is a staircase that turns back against itself on the parlor floor. They are very pretty, and they open up the space on the floor.
“No serious sit down restaurants, inferior grocery stores, forget bars, no public schools worth mentioning.”
Enduro on Lincoln is a serious sit down restaurant and a bar and there may be another restaurant on the way on Lincoln. There is also Lime (bar) and a couple of other halfway decent neighborhood dive bars. You’re correct about the lack of decent grocery stores and in neighborhood public schools.
The people making snippy comments about the owner’s furniture really need to get a life. Yes first impressions count, but the photos demonstrate that this house shows well. It’s clean and uncluttered — which is already an improvement on most properties on the market. Any serious buyer will be looking at the layout, the finishes, the features, the mechanical systems, the building envelope. Who’s give a S*** about the stuff in it? Did anybody ask you to BUY the high chair?
Borrowing money is so 2006, Polemicist.
Nowadays one merely has to sell one’s two-bedroom apartment in the Upper West Side and bingo! deal done.
Life is so easy when you understand the facts from Brownstoner.
There is very little in the way of amenities in this neighborhood. No serious sit down restaurants, inferior grocery stores, forget bars, no public schools worth mentioning.
You got a house, the subway, and the park.
3:53 is right. This is priced for a cash purchaser, and they are going to be hard pressed to find a working stiff with a family willing to finance a $1MM mortgage.