House of the Day: 45 Park Place
This federal townhouse at 45 Park Place in Park Slope is bound to turn a lot of heads. The living and bedrooms have exquisite period detail and the kitchen and bathrooms appear to have been attractively updated. The proximity to Fifth Avenue is increasingly positive as well. That said, it’ll be interesting to see how…
This federal townhouse at 45 Park Place in Park Slope is bound to turn a lot of heads. The living and bedrooms have exquisite period detail and the kitchen and bathrooms appear to have been attractively updated. The proximity to Fifth Avenue is increasingly positive as well. That said, it’ll be interesting to see how this fares with an asking price of $2,395,000. Wonder what the wisdom of the masses will be when it comes to the appraisal votes!
45 Park Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Who are the lunatics betting on the house selling a million dollars above ask?!
I think what the widget is proving time after time is that the people who read this board assume that all asks are at least 25% inflated. Certainly I assume that when looking at asking prices, although in this case I shockingly came closer to BHO than the cheerleaders.
Sam, Agree about the blanket “brick = federal” being annoying and inaccurate. But this house is probably a little older than 1880. Why? This part of Park Slope (the NW quadrant close to Flatbush and 5th Ave) was developed in the 1850s-70s before the center slope which constitutes the former Litchfield estate. Also by 1880 some of the interior details had changed including the design of the marble fireplace shown above. The scalloped cornice you point out is also an earlier feature. By 1880, the prevailing NeoGrec and Queen Anne styles would have dictated a more rectilinear design.
Dave, thank you.
I do love the kistings for “farmhouses” on 18 foot lots. Farms were narrow in those days.
$1.25M
***Bid half off peak comps***
Very impressive Sam… Let the people know…
The location is a solid “B” not an “A”. What is that next door?
No way they get near two million.
1.8 tops. really tops. Especially as the garden level is not income-producing. If the garden level were made into a separate apartment, the owners unit would only have two bathrooms.
sam…brokers think everything brick is federal. Everything clapboard is a “farmhouse.” A lot of brokers are Eurotrash so they have an excuse.
not to be pedantic, but why is this Victorian-era house described as “federal”? Federal houses date to the 1800-1830 period. There are very few of these in Brooklyn. There are lots of them in Salem, Mass or Alexandria, Va.
This is an Italianatte house circa 1880. The scalloped cornice is a nice design feature.