House of the Day: 93 2nd Street
We’re surprised the listing for 93 2nd Street didn’t include something along the lines of “Own your own house for the price of a condo!” The 1,620-square-foot mini-house is a charmer for sure and for a couple or small family this really could be a nice alternative to a condo. The house, which traded for…
We’re surprised the listing for 93 2nd Street didn’t include something along the lines of “Own your own house for the price of a condo!” The 1,620-square-foot mini-house is a charmer for sure and for a couple or small family this really could be a nice alternative to a condo. The house, which traded for $975,000 three years ago, is now asking $1,125,000. We could see it getting pretty close to that. What do you think?
93 2nd Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Ed: We’re taking a new price voting feature for a test run on this post. The idea is to get the group to predict what the house will sell for. In a few months, we’ll be able to start to look back and see how close we came as a group! It will also provide some pretty immediate feedback to sellers on whether they’re in the right ballpark.
i like the user estimate!
i like the user estimate!
Again Sam, as I said, I don’t know about pricing. I’m sure I’d be bargaining as best I could. But hands down this house is perfect in size for me. And, I’m going to have to agree with 11217 that I’d take a small house over a co-op or condo any day regardless of price.
The What reminds me of Sean Connery on the Will Farrell Jeopardy parody skit: “Suck It Trebeck”
snappy, perhaps if you had the money, you would be looking for better options. This is an adorable house, but it isn’t worth nearly the amount they are asking.
Yes, this house is super small, but remember folks, not every house-hunter out there has a family or is interested in ever having a family. Speaking for myself as a single person with just a cat (and absolutely no intention of going beyond that), this is the perfect sized house. Not too big, not too small, manageable for a single woman, etc. I can’t be the only one. I won’t speak to pricing because I’m not real estate savvy in terms of costs. I will say this: If I had the money, I’d be over there negotiating.
I suppose since this is not in the historic district, one could add a story and thus have a real master bedroom suite, perhaps with a roof deck. I would design it like a mansard in fron with a pair of dormer windows. But then you really would have to keep the acquisition cost down below 800,000. It’s just too teeny-tiny now to be a serious house. The basement is entirely below grade, it is legally uninhabitable although New Yorkers will live anywhere.
11217…probably. It’d be a Trinity with one of those really narrow staircases. You’d find them on the smaller east-west streets mostly butyes, they’d be in the $500-600k range…..
Like the house a lot, so I assume it’ll sell for about $200,000 more than I could possibly afford in the foreseeable future. Like the widget. I agree that it would be nice if it didn’t display the price until after you’ve voted. I think it’s a sad commentary on the state of blog commenting that the people who said you should prevent multiple votes and other attempts to game the system…are probably right.