House of the Day: 208 Washington Avenue
It’s hard to know for sure without seeing interior photos, but this new listing at 208 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill sure looks interesting on the surface. The two-family frame house, which is perched on a hill, allegedly has “many original details” as well as its own garage. The asking price of $995,000 seemed pretty…
It’s hard to know for sure without seeing interior photos, but this new listing at 208 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill sure looks interesting on the surface. The two-family frame house, which is perched on a hill, allegedly has “many original details” as well as its own garage. The asking price of $995,000 seemed pretty low at first glance, but it turns out, according to Property Shark, that the house is only about 1,600 square feet. That said, because of the large lot, there’s a whole bunch of extra FAR. It is landmarked though.
208 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
“close to Myrtle (Murder Ave)”
Dude how did you see the house and fail to notice all the cool stuff on Myrtle? Being in proximity to Myrtle is not a negative.
If you are still referring to myrtle ave as murder avenue you haven’t been in the neighborhood in a while.
This house is half of a duplex and both sides are in really horrible horrible shape. You could easliy spend $500,000 in renovation and still not be fininshed. There have been a few price reductions already. The lot is a little too close to Myrtle (Murder Ave) to be command the price a renovated version of this house would need to make a profit.
in my experience, woodframe houses are easier and cheaper to renovate than brownstones, which are basically wood-framed houses with brick and veneer stone facades. re-doing clapboard is much much cheaper than brownstone, or than properly re-pointing old brick.
This house doesn’t appeal to me, don’t know, the siting of it and the enclosed porch. I must have been frightened as a child in a house like this. I think it’s creepy.
I don’t see why your comment is specific to wood frames. Either $500K is a ridiculous amount to spend on any interior renovation or it isn’t, but I don’t see why the price really changes depending on the construction type – it’s all just walls inside.
Anyone that spends anywhere near $500K renovating interior of woodframe house has sucker written across his forehead.
There’s a house up the block from here that has the coolest little one-room cottage in it.
Absolutely costs more to renovate a frame house, especially a detached or in this case, semi-detached. In addition to 500K for the interior, add on another 200k for the exterior. Minimum. Then consider the retaining wall in the front….
I have no comment on the price, but on that stretch of Washington there are some truly lovely frame houses similar to this one. It is nowhere near the shape they are in, but for someone that has deep pockets and is stout hearted, it has the potential to be lovely.