House of the Day: 14 Seventh Avenue
This single-family brick townhouse at 14 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope was an Open House Pick back in February when it was initially listed for $2,475,000. The listing has undergone two price cuts since then, bringing the current asking price down to $2,250,000. The interior is very impressive, so we’re a little surprised no one’s…
This single-family brick townhouse at 14 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope was an Open House Pick back in February when it was initially listed for $2,475,000. The listing has undergone two price cuts since then, bringing the current asking price down to $2,250,000. The interior is very impressive, so we’re a little surprised no one’s fallen in love yet, but maybe the price is just a little too high.
14 Seventh Avenue [Brooklyn Bridge] GMAP P*Shark
pretty but the same price in brooklyn can put you on the water overlooking the Manhattan skyline at http://www.onebrooklyn.com … so why pay for a loud busy street when you can have a park, waterfront and views?
true true Ditmas
Well since I wont be going to the open house with my little giant ladder, I’ll take your word for it. Still hats off to an outstanding restoration job!
> The details are timeless.
Actually, they are pretty much the opposite of timeless. Hence the term “period details.”
Polychromatic
Victorian’teriors
Two million too much
Not a single detail in that house is original. The gorgeous dentil moulding that you are salvating over is injection molded. The mantles and “gilded” pier mirror all sourced from salvage. All of that window dressing could be recreated for well under 25k. Open your blinders, you self-proclaimed preservationists.
Brownstoner:
Who knew your posters were so delicate?
Seventh Avenue too busy and gritty?
A four-story house on Park Avenue — essentially a six-lane urban highway — recently sold for more than $30 million. (That was before the bust, of course.) In comparison, Seventh’s a bucolic lane.
Still, spend millions for this place these days? On strictly economic terms, that’s foolish, even though the house is a beauty. (Another thing I don’t get: Posters on a site called “Brownstoner” complaining about polychromatic interiors. What do you think the Victorian era was all about?)
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Snobs. I know period detail, it’s jsut too over the top for my personal tastes. But that’s besides the point here.
What all this banter proves is that when your period details are so finely (and colorfully) burnished, expecting a commensurate premium price in return, what you’ve really done is severely limit your pool of buyers.
I too personally hate new construction/gut reno blah. But this is just so far in the other direction.
SO who cares who likes this particular style. The evidence is in: they better hope they can find someone who wants to live in this “timeless” property with means to do so.
Otherwise all I’m thinkin is “great property. If only it came back to reality in price, and then how much am I paying to tone down the liberace-esque period detailing.
“It’s also available for rent at $7500”
10 x 7500 x 12 = $0.9M = Worse than half off.
***Bid half off peak comps***