House of the Day: 125 Willoughby Avenue
This two-family at 125 Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill just hit the market a couple of weeks ago with a price tag of $2,100,000. The current owners bought the place for $1,400,000 back in 2005 and have busied themselves with a top-to-bottom renovation since. Things we like: parlor floor moldings, original parquet floor, and the…
This two-family at 125 Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill just hit the market a couple of weeks ago with a price tag of $2,100,000. The current owners bought the place for $1,400,000 back in 2005 and have busied themselves with a top-to-bottom renovation since. Things we like: parlor floor moldings, original parquet floor, and the clean modern kitchen. Things we don’t: recessed lighting and exposed brick on the parlor floor, choice of tile in the master bath. It’ll be interesting to see if they get their price on this one.
125 Willoughby Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Man! All this hating on Clinton Hill. I have lived here for 5 years and am married with a two year old. This is the coolest neighborhood I have lived in and is awesome for kids. I don’t get where some of you are coming from. And in terms of commute, I take the G to the A to get to Chelsea and it takes half hour, which is pretty reasonable, so back off the G as well.
Come on now. Your basement apt is no man’s land. Stop it already “slick”
“Things we like: parlor floor moldings”
I’ve been staring at the photo, but I’m not quite sure what you are referring to. The house has been completely stripped of its mouldings, all that remains is some very basic and apparently painted base cap.
I think Clinton Hill is pretty whenever I visit, but I dont see why anyone would pay $2,000,000 to live there. In fact, I dont even see paying $1.4 mil for a house that needs renovation. This house is in no-man’s land.
It’s a plain rehab. I am wondering if the sellers look to buy and flip it onto the market after they renovated.
It may have taken them a long time to finish the renovation and they missed the boat. Not that that is necessarily what happened with this house, but many people got caught in the mess, buying too high in 2005 & 2006 thinking they’d make a tidy sum renovating and selling.
Note that the furnishing is extremely sparse as though some furniture was put in to dress up an empty, non-lived-in house.
That settles it. It was a purchase for a reno’n’sell…gotta be! Corcoran usually has more views of rooms of reno’d houses for sale. Plus, look at that deck, would you! It has a table that looks like a TV tray!
This is a flip job. Bought for $1.4 with $300K, maybe more on the reno.
Though, I do feel bad reading these comments…my own included…feeling kind of guilty…and hoping we’re not a HOTD when we sell! Yikes!
FGG
6:15PM: Uh, “original” to what? They bought when the house was built? Or are you saying that the the homeowning population of a certain age in Clinton Hill is now considered “original,” while the guys with the inflated wallets and mortgages and recessed lighting and exposed brick are…fake? Come to think of it (speaking as an original myself, of course)you may have a point..
lot’s of orginal home owners on Willoughby.
Only skeeming renters talk that “buy out” stuff.
“sunset park is way better than clinton hill”
So why does the price tag say diffrent?
I think paying this kind of money for a house this close to public housing is asking to be assaulted.