House of the Day: 243 Kane Street
While we’re on vacation this week, we’re spotlighting some properties that have been on the market for a long time…After being purchased for $1,802,000 in June 2007, 243 Kane Street hit the market asking $2,950,000 in July; the price was increased in September to $3,400,000 and again in May 2008 to $4,075,000 before being reduced…
While we’re on vacation this week, we’re spotlighting some properties that have been on the market for a long time…After being purchased for $1,802,000 in June 2007, 243 Kane Street hit the market asking $2,950,000 in July; the price was increased in September to $3,400,000 and again in May 2008 to $4,075,000 before being reduced slightly to $3,995,000 in June. The price stayed there until the end of December when it was trimmed to its current asking price of $3,850,000. It’s an extra-wide house in a great Cobble Hill location but the renovation, while not corner-cutting by any means, strikes us as being as much of the problem as the price. It’s one of those neither-fish-nor-fowl jobs: The house has lost its historic charm but the look that replaced it is not successful enough in its modernism to make up for it. Do you agree?
243 Kane Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
I saw it and thought the renovation made the house feel more like a hotel than a house. The white marble floors in the front hall are just awful.
i love the house & the renovation. i just can’t wrap my mind around the price – crazy.
This place is great, but are you kidding me with the price. Maybe they had a bidding war back in the day and then rejected the offers and overshot on the new price. I am trying to explain it myself. It seems like a great home, but please give me a freaking break with the price.
Agree with Brownstoner about neither fish nor fowl. The kitchen is particularly uninspiring. What I really don’t understand is how it could sell for $1,802,000 in June 2007, and then be on the market one month later asking $2,950,000. They couldn’t possibly have renovated it in that time. Also as others point out, the subsequent price increases are puzzling.
yeah, i think the problem here is obviously price, and the weird pricing history that suggests the sellers are gaming way too much for this market. as for the renovation, the reference to the look that “replaced” the historic detail seems to assume that the renovators were the ones who removed the detail, and did so purposefully. That’s probably not the case, though just a guess on my part. Beyond that, it doesn’t look like they tried to do anything particularly “modernist” – it’s just a clean contemporary renovation that seems successful to me. Not necessarily my taste, and obviously overpriced, but I don’t think this is a good example of a failed approach at modernism. Or that said failure explains the failure to sell at this price.
Sam, you crack me up! I agree with LP wrt the renovations – they suit me just fine. But 3.85? Really?
I just can’t comment on this type of ridiculousness.
This is one time the range of the price widget isn’t broad enough. I would have guessed just over $2 million, and not to be an arse either. $3 million plus for a blah renovation in an historic district in this climate? I find it hard to believe.
Although I suppose there is a home for everyone and a person for every home and all that, I just don’t see $3 mil for that…
Don’t agree with Brownstoner–I like this renovation (at least from the pics). Love the kitchen. After touring historic Park Slope homes this month, I realize I don’t like houses that keep all the historic details (mainly all the dark/heavy wood and closed rooms/too many walls). This house has enough details with a light contemporary feel that I like. If I had the money I would offer around 3M.