House of the Day: 599 5th Street
This new listing at 599 5th Street will be an interesting barometer of the market. It’s a beautiful limestone house on a park block that’s got tons of detail and is in excellent shape; it’s the kind of place that should have almost universal appeal. We also like the fact that the two-story extension solves…
This new listing at 599 5th Street will be an interesting barometer of the market. It’s a beautiful limestone house on a park block that’s got tons of detail and is in excellent shape; it’s the kind of place that should have almost universal appeal. We also like the fact that the two-story extension solves the perennial problem of how to fit the kitchen on the parlor floor. The asking price is $2,400,000. We can’t wait to see what it sells for. There’s an open house on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
599 5th Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Becky-
Dave won’t be right if it goes for 2 mil. That’s 20% off ask.
I agree this will be a good test case. Very little we’ll be able to point to as explaining away the eventual sell price for bulls or bears.
It’s a very nice house, and only 1.9 million out of my price range!
THL, as I’m sure you know, a 17-foot-wide house does not translate into 17-foot-wide rooms. Unfortunately.
Hence the useless narrow parlor in the front and the second parlor without windows in the middle, making two too many and not-quite-right parlors.
it’s one of the best layouts i’ve seen in ages… i’d finish that basement more and put my maid, nanny and manservent down there
It’s very pretty.
What!? No bathroom for the top rear bedroom? Bid $425,000.
Seriously, doesn’t float my boat. Too many parlors and the front one is too narrow and lacks a fireplace and the middle one seems to be missing a wall (?) and has no windows. I also don’t like the white woodwork or the suburban-dream kitchen.
Also, anyone notice how in the 1890s when fireplaces were no longer necessary for heat, the uber-rich briefly made a symbolic fetish of them and created center stairway fireplace halls like this one?
Yowzers! What’s not to like? It’s a single family (Yes! No tenants!)The details are stunning. This is the perfect combo of painted (light/bright) vs. non-painted wood. The kitchen is a perfect working kitchen (even though I’d want a bigger sink). It’s even got a skylight in the MB closet to boot.
I LOVE this house!
I gotta ask this, where does everyone currently live that they think a 17 foot wide house is narrow and cramped? I don’t think any of my apartments had rooms that were wider than that.
why do i have a feeling Dave is right and this will go for about 2 mil?
We will revisit this one soon in “This Week’s Recent Sales” Team Bear will be hibernating. I stick my neck out as a pompous Asshat that knows nothing about real estate and got PWNED in the ghetto and say: This will go for very, very close to ask, if not above. And it will be post-Lehman!!!!!