House of the Day: 74 Lincoln Road
When 74 Lincoln Road was an Open House Pick back in early May, it had the optimistic price tag of $1,395,000; last week that asking price was trimmed to $1,295,000. This baby’s a charmer, to be sure: An unattached Colonial Revival house with lots of detail and in excellent shape; to top it off, it’s…
When 74 Lincoln Road was an Open House Pick back in early May, it had the optimistic price tag of $1,395,000; last week that asking price was trimmed to $1,295,000. This baby’s a charmer, to be sure: An unattached Colonial Revival house with lots of detail and in excellent shape; to top it off, it’s got a driveway and garage. Still, they’re not giving it away. Do you think this price cut will make a difference?
74 Lincoln Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Open House Picks 5/9/08 [Brownstoner]
OK 2:25, so go buy it. For my money, that I earned, 1.3M is far too high for this house in this location. As I said in my first post, it is a question of what you want and what you can live with. I’d be comfortable spending 1M on this, but no more. But by all means, since you think it is such a good deal, you should buy it.
2:26
I don’t suppose the fact that the house is located one door down from a huge apartment building and that others are across the street has anything to do with the fact that people are saying this location is not great. Nor does the fact that the restuarant/shopping scene is lousy over there have anything to do with location criticism either. No, it’s all about whitey’s racism. Of course, you’re pointing this out and making generalizations regarding other posters says nothing but positive things about your tolerance level.
stfu 2:31
Oh no…..NOT AN APARTMENT BUILDING!
My heavens, what is this? New York City?
Wrong side of the park for that price.
its right next to an apt bldg, that can be a dealbreaker for mmany
Flatbushwaker
Don’t you understand that there are BLACK people on Flatbush! With locs and funny accents and such. That’s why the house is overpriced and why the location is an issue. You’ve got to do better at deciphering the code-words on Brownstoner if you are going to be a regular commentator. Next, people are going to quote crime stats to justify their displeasure with the location, even though Brooklyn is part of NYC, the safest big city in the country. But it is a stunning house. If I could afford it…. But I’m stuck in my 3B condo in Clinton Hill
I disagree, 2:05. The rooms were spacious. Plenty of closets. The layout was absolutely ideal for adding a parlor floor powder room. Unlike most houses where you have to lose some of the DR or kitchen to do that. Here there are two pantries off the kitchen so you get a powder room AND to keep a pantry to boot. Some with suburban tastes prefer an open layout for the parlor floor living room, but a double-parlor is pretty common in this era house.
As for location, once inside or in the backyard it feels very private and quiet despite the apt building next door. And of course the house IS priced for that location already. If this size house was on Maple Street where other large freestanding houses are found in Lefferts Manor, or on a corner on Bedford, it would be $1.5 million. The location isn’t completely ideal but not so much it lowers the value by half a million. That reasoning is a bit dumb. I think it’s priced just right, now. It was a tad high before.
flatbushwhacker, the “location problem” is code for “black people”