House of the Day: 449 Bergen Street
This two-family house at 449 Bergen Street in Park Slope hit the market last month asking $1,899,000 and just reduced earlier this week to $1,795,000. The three-story (sorta) house was renovated top-to-bottom in 2002, the year before the current owner bought it for $595,000. Seems like a pretty stiff mark-up to us. 449 Bergen Street…
This two-family house at 449 Bergen Street in Park Slope hit the market last month asking $1,899,000 and just reduced earlier this week to $1,795,000. The three-story (sorta) house was renovated top-to-bottom in 2002, the year before the current owner bought it for $595,000. Seems like a pretty stiff mark-up to us.
449 Bergen Street [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP P*Shark
MaplewoodGuy, renting in hood you like is great way to enjoy perks of that hood while waiting for prices to drip into range to buy & become owner.
ownership is not always great and renting is not always bad. no one said one has to buy a bigger place – one can rent one too.
more4less: mkt is not a microwave. 600k doesn’t materialize in blink of eye – it requires patience waiting for it to drip drip….
exactly this market is chinese torture. whoever needs to buy now is screwed.
I’d love to see what this place really looks like on the inside…25′ wide would make for some very comfortably sized rooms. Yeah, it seems overpriced, but I wonder what you can get immediately south of Flatbush for less? Looks like it doesn’t need anything, which is a plus for most people.
I’m not overwhelmed by the neighborhood. “Park Slope” to me is considerably south and east of here…
A&H is really two firms led very independently by the named partners, thus the 2 websites. Seems like this would be the time for them to just divorce already.
I can’t seem to put in my pirce – 950k – is there some restriction on the widget (if so it smells like a present from Brownstoner to the real estate industry).
buyer’s mkt means cheaper by the day. today 950k. wait a month and econ still in the dumbs. 875k. so on so on…..
mkt is not a microwave. 600k doesn’t materialize in blink of eye – it requires patience waiting for it to drip drip….
Who in right mind would give a million for this? This is compromised living. Assuming one can rent part of it, a middle class family might afford it. This means 400K (the house they afford) plus 200K (for the rental)=600K. The fair price based on median income (100K) is 600K.
-I want even consider the joke widget
-people call this market a buyer’s market but this is not true as the gov/fed are pumping NY real estate with bailouts, tax cuts/credits etc. If it was a buyers market this would have been already 600K.
950k – buyer’s mkt
LOT SIZE 25 x 59
BUILDING SIZE 25 x 35
Okay…1.8M is just ridiculous for this!!
it’s a cute little house and personally i like that stretch of Bergen as it’s super close to 5th avenue and key food and blue sky – plus the trains
That being said, I have to say the price is outlandish. I know it’s 25 feet wide and according to the realtor you have an etra 3200 feet to build on but it’s lacking that true brownstone feel that would command a price like 1.8mil
I put my widget at 1.35