House of the Day: 1171 Dean Street
This four-story house at 1171 Dean Street in Crown Heights just hit the market with an asking price of $595,000 and the full disclosure that it’s a handy-man special. With plenty of original detail, it definitely has potential. Now here’s the weird thing: This house changed hands for $850,000 two years ago according to Property…
This four-story house at 1171 Dean Street in Crown Heights just hit the market with an asking price of $595,000 and the full disclosure that it’s a handy-man special. With plenty of original detail, it definitely has potential. Now here’s the weird thing: This house changed hands for $850,000 two years ago according to Property Shark! So either someone’s taking a serious bath or there’s some mortgage fraud going on. Regardless, it’ll be interesting to see how a how in this condition in this area will sell in today’s market.
1171 Dean Street [Mark David] GMAP P*Shark
I don’t think this is an SRO.
ON DOB website, there was compliant about it being an SRO. An inspector tried to go there but had no access. If it was a legal SRO, they wouldn’t bother going.
3:36 With the new higher FHA limits, I think a buyer could get a mortgage and a rehab loan.
How difficult is it to change the Certificate of Occupancy on an SRO assuming you can get the non-harrasment document signed ?
Aw, 3:08, it’s good to know sensationalist hyperbole isn’t dead, here on Brownstoner. Since I live a block and a half away from this house and take the same subway, walk the same street to get home, etc, etc, I can unequivocally call bullsh*t. This neighborhood is far from the pits, and this block is an architectural treasure trove, as is all of Dean between Bedford and Kingston, as 3:12 said.
One of the most beautiful houses on our house tour last year is on this block, and I know several homeowners who have lived here since childhood, and have been in their homes for over 50 years. It’s a quiet block with a lot of community minded homeowners, and there is much pride of place in front gardens and people taking care of their homes for the most part. There are a couple of boarded up houses, all of which are spectacular buildings that cry out for renovation. I know that a couple of them, including 2 of the huge Queen Anne’s on the south side of the street, are owned by the same person, who also lives in another house on this block. He has been working with LPC and HPD to get funding to renovate, so these houses will not be boarded up forever.
This block is 4 or 5 blocks from the Nostrand Ave A train, and the hike up to Eastern Parkway isn’t that far, if those trains suit you better. Crossing Atlantic is not difficult if you wait for the walk signs, which anyone should do on a busy thorofare. Crossing Eastern Parkway is actually a longer crossing, and I don’t get what the big difference would be.
Cheerleading again – yeah, ’cause this is a fine location, and an investment here will be worth making for those who are looking for a family home in a decent neighborhood.
ive only walked around crown heights once and it was walking to Brower Park from the 2/3 stop about a year ago. It was around 8 in the morning and didnt feel unsafe at all.
at night I dont know.
house is awesome looking tho. Im however am only 23 so I have no money. Going in with several friends would work. You could create some fucked up fight club house.
looks like the other house, some one started to renovate. Can you even get a mortgage for a house in that condition?
Hey, 3:08, where is the house you own?
I’m going to be one of the suckers that goes to look at this house.
As a young couple looking to buy a house under 700K, we’re limited to neighborhoods.
Wish this was closer to Eastern Parkway than Atlantic. Who wants to cross that wide street to get home from the train station.
The agent is showing another house on the same block. It was listed as an open house on this site a few weeks ago, but the agent didn’t have access. She called over the holiday weekend to say it’s now showing. But the pics on the site look like it’s a lot more work than I want to take on.
http://www.markdavidny.com/sales/prospect.heights/0br/2/27063TH