House of the Day: 132 Rutland Road
This three-story brownstone at 132 Rutland Road is a charmer. In the same family for decades, the 3,000-square-foot house is chock full of original details, as befits a house in Lefferts Manor. There’s mention of a large eat-in kitchen but no photos, so we won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. The asking price…
This three-story brownstone at 132 Rutland Road is a charmer. In the same family for decades, the 3,000-square-foot house is chock full of original details, as befits a house in Lefferts Manor. There’s mention of a large eat-in kitchen but no photos, so we won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. The asking price of $1,100,000 may be too high above the psychological barrier of a million bucks. What do you think?
132 Rutland Road [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
sam, you just insulted neanderthals.
12 minutes when it doesn’t get stopped coming into Hoyt/Schermerhorn!!!
Stuyvesant Heights is more affordable than this area and they have the A/C that brings you into Manhattan in 15 mins. None of the houses in Stuyvesant Heights are over 1 million today. I think the Barbara Corcoran one on Stuyvesant was the only 1.4 million dollar house. On the Bedford side you have a few that’s over a million…
1. WOW! The screen in my house, a block north on Midwood St., is very nice, but this one, with all it’s graceful curves, is breathtaking. In addition, there’s a smaller screen in the parlor floor hallway.
2. YngRntr,
It’s not just the Lefferts Manor Covenant that forbids converting this house into two condos; there’s also the R2 zoning. This means that…
3. daveinbedstuy may well be right that Stuyvesant Heights houses can command a higher price, since they’re larger and can have one or more rental apartments to lower the cost of ownership. I opted for a LM one family, since I’d hate being a landlord, but either choice has much to recommend it and actual costs should be comparable.
4.cwbuecheler,
It’s only 4-1/2 blocks to the Lincoln Road entrance to the Prospect Park Q & B station; three of them are very short (200′).
5. goldie,
all the way to Lefferts? Its all of ONE stop south of Park Slope
This house is very nice but it pretty much the same thing for half the price all over Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant especially going east past Malcolm X Like this one on Dean: http://www.mlsli.com/unidetailsredo.CFM?MLNum=2075940&typeprop=1&start=1&rpp=10&phm=1
or
http://www.mlsli.com/unidetailsredo.CFM?MLNum=2075940&typeprop=1&start=1&rpp=10&phm=1
agreed, it needs a floorplan, but that’s not an english basement, BrooklynLove. It’s more than half above grade, and almost certainly has a full cellar with mechanicals below it. Brownstone instead of limestone is relatively rare for the neighborhood. And the fretwork is off the hook, I’ve never seen it quite so ornate. Bob Marvin, any idea what this style is called?
Fred…you’re right then…the two limestones that sold earlier this year went for somewhere areound $1.1 MM each.
So easy a caveman can do it!!!
DIBS, you should check out the neighborhood comps. At the peak of the market (2006) there were several 3.5 and 4 story places on midwood and maple that went for as high as 1.6M. I was looking in Stuy Heights at the same time as I bought in PLG, and I’m fairly certain nothing ever went for that much over there, even the amazing limestones on stuyvesant avenue. Stuy Heights is a beautiful neighborhood, but the proximity to the park and the botanic garden, as well as the B/Q, made me pick PLG over it. It has the most intact historic district in brooklyn. There are some 4-stories further down Rutland and on Midwood for about 1.4. But they’ve been sitting for a while, BHS listings.