House of the Day: 505 1st Street
What’s going on over on 1st Street? There are a TON of houses for sale on this stretch of Park Slope. On October 27, we wrote up 567 1st Street; on November 14, we tapped 356 1st Street as an Open House Pick; the just last week, we featured 566 1st Street as a House…
What’s going on over on 1st Street? There are a TON of houses for sale on this stretch of Park Slope. On October 27, we wrote up 567 1st Street; on November 14, we tapped 356 1st Street as an Open House Pick; the just last week, we featured 566 1st Street as a House of the Day. Now Stribling has dropped another one on us: 505 1st Street. The four-story brownstone has lots of old-school detail, a renovated kitchen and extension to boot. Looks very nice. The price of $3,250,000, however, feels a little leftover from the boom times. Think they can get it?
505 1st Street [Stribling] GMAP P*Shark
Yes and no. It is a fairly daunting prospect because we would need to sell our loft either first, or try it simultaneously. We’ve seen some homes we really like lately, but the pricing is entirely too confusing. In order to pay last year’s prices for a brownstone, we need to count on last year’s prices for our loft. Ack. It feels like extremely high stakes gambling.
Question to me is why sell and move if you own such a nice house? Records show bought 20 years ago – so I doubt mortgage is a problem…plus nice rental for income.
I like this house but prefer older brick facades instead of later brownstone ones. Is that crazy???
I also think the kitchen looks quite freshly updated.
he’s a sweetie, but he’s a little over-protective. the cool thing tho is that even tho the dog walker he has now is a little expensive, it’s really socialized him a lot better. him and my roommates 15 year old beagle get along great 🙂
*rob*
Dunno about updating the kitchen. It looks pretty fresh to me, and those cabinets if you believe Stribling are reclaimed wood from the butler’s pantry–a nice touch.
All in all, an excellent example of a classic PS brownstone. Compare this to the condo of the day and it looks like a decent deal…2x the price but 4x the space.
Nokilissa,
Are you still looking?
I always thought your handle was a joking reference to your entirely pit-bull-ish nature! Because, of course, you are exactly the opposite. Me likes you.
You have a pitbull. Is he/she a sweetie?
i told you this in the other thread where you asked!!! it’s cuz i moved to 1st street with my crazy pitbull! clearly there’s some kind of new flight going on with that block!. i kid, i kid, (but that really is my block.)
*rob*