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
lol. I’m sure Fish and Sip is a lovely spot. I just can’t get the vision of pureed grouper in a glass with a celery stalk for a straw out of my mind.
I take the 2/3 and am on this block fairly often. It’s a bit on the noisy side and gets a lot of the psycho drivers peeling off flatbush hell bent on killing someone, but it is close to a lot of stores and, of course, the subway.
Bergen Bagels across flatbush is the best bagel shop in the area, and Blue Sky bakery around the corner of 5th makes some great muffins.
And if the vibrator you buy at Babeland breaks down, the nice guys at Pintchik’s might be able to fix it for you.
But the ambulance corps nearby would bug me. Mostly because I use to live near one, and they woke me up at least once a month.
InsertSnappyName: I’m guessing it’s a legal 2-family used as 1, but I agree it is a terrible listing.
Market should be at 2003 prices, therefore this should be 595K, not a penny more.
Seriously, having been in the market for houses in this area in 2001-02, they either got a tremendous bargain (for an already renovated house) or there was some other factor we don’t know about. At this time I was not seeing anything within the actual boundaries of Park Slope (including the fringes like this, which is where I was looking) for anywhere near 595K except wrecks in need of a gut renovation. ’03 would have been even higher.
I’d keep that in mind in considering the “markup”–either that was well below market at the time, or there is/was some horrible hidden flaw.
I’ve got to defend Fish and Sip. I stopped in the other day for dinner and it was really good and pretty cheap too. Also, the owner was really sweet. Go check it out.
Also, I love this block of bergen, right near the 2/3 and the whole east side of the street has got some new and interesting retail, and also very close to restaurants/nightlife and supermarkets on fifth.
That being said, the listing is horrible (no floor plan) the verbal description doesn’t make any sense, the cieling heights look low (looks like a cave) and the phots in general are terrible.
I agree with the 999 price
I think even 999 is a stretch, given the 2002 price. Listing is terrible – where is the floor plan? Looks like a small house in a not-great location. I would value it at 950-999 (who wants to pay the mansion tax for this? but the widget won’t let me.
Why are the A&H listins sooooo bad? Where’s the floorplan?
I hope the seller’s lurking…WHAT ARE YOU PAYING THEM FOR???
> “PS the widget is on the blinkski”
Ditto.
> “Re-list it for 999k and be thrilled if anyone bites.”
Ditto.