House of the Day: 86 Douglass Street
This two-family brownstone at 86 Douglass Street in Cobble Hill is currently a rental. And it shows. There’s not original architectural detail in sight and the backyard clearly hasn’t had the love of an owner in some time. The bigger questions, though, are (a) what the parlor floor looks like, since it doesn’t appear to…
This two-family brownstone at 86 Douglass Street in Cobble Hill is currently a rental. And it shows. There’s not original architectural detail in sight and the backyard clearly hasn’t had the love of an owner in some time. The bigger questions, though, are (a) what the parlor floor looks like, since it doesn’t appear to have been featured in any of the photos, and (b) what would it cost to combine and upgrade the two existing apartments into a single-family house. Without a little more info, it’s hard to know what to make of the $1,275,000 asking price.
86 Douglass Street [Heights Berkeley] GMAP P*Shark
The new name for this area is Cobble Slope.
This not Cobble Hill, get with it.
Saw this place this weekend. Tenant has an attidtude, but whatever. Upper floor (currently empty) needs a significant amount of work (the floor has a significant dip in it). Cobble Hill (yes this is in Cobble Hill, if think otherwise, get over it) is a greta place and has been holding value well, but this is on a bit of a boring block. Close enough to the F line to not worry about the projects, but it is the F line…
Decent place, but who would buy it without having a unit you could move into for a year? $1.25 seems about $300k to high to me, but it’ll go for over $1 million, if it goes.
The “Last Weeks Biggest Sales” post from earlier this week had 238 Wyckoff closing for $1.516 million. It too is 1/2 block from public housing. It was a nicer looking house than the Douglas St. property.
I’m just excited because this property will give me the opportunity to be a *landlord* and live in a 1-bed apt on the to floor for only around $3500 a month! (More if you’re lucky!)
I always think of Smith St. as being partly in Boerum Hill (and partly in Carroll Gardens) and that Cobble Hill ended at Court St. In my mental map both the Douglas Street house, and the section of Smith St. right near it, are in Carroll Gardens.
these posts are laughable. There was an impeccable house in the real Cobble Hill, Congress Street I believe, and people were going on and on about how the perfectly well-maintained 6-story co-op across the street cast a pall over the entire block. However today we hear that buyers will gladly pay 1.8 million dollars to live across the street from one of the biggest public housing projects in the Downtown area.
Too much.
So… 2 of the three floors are rented out at this extraordinary rental rate (don’t think the renewal would be that high) and your stuck on the 3rd floor for about $1600 a month per the remaining mortgage PLUS taxes and all other expenses.
This just sound like an AWESOME deal. When can I sign up!
buyers are dummies
or
it’s not that big a negative / everyone is close to a project