House of the Day: 135 Lafayette Avenue
This five-story, 5,810-square-foot townhouse at 135 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene hit the market a couple of weeks ago with a price tag of $2,875,000, unusually expensive for house not on a park block. The house has been updated in a tasteful way and looks particularly spacious in the new Corcoran full-screen photo viewer. On…
This five-story, 5,810-square-foot townhouse at 135 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene hit the market a couple of weeks ago with a price tag of $2,875,000, unusually expensive for house not on a park block. The house has been updated in a tasteful way and looks particularly spacious in the new Corcoran full-screen photo viewer. On the downside, it’s right next door to a less-than-scenic deli and doesn’t have much of a backyard to speak of. Reactions?
135 Lafayette Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Don’t you think the broker could have done some homework and find out when this place was actually built. It certainly wasn’t 1930. Go get a copy of the old landmarks designation, my guess is 1850s or 1860s like the rest of the surrounding blocks.
I don’t know about the price, but those sorts of things bother me in listings…
“That said, a house without those original details is hardly worth this asking price. It looks like any generic condo once inside.”
So are you saying that you don’t think that an almost 6,000 sf “condo” is worth 2.8 million in this area of NYC?
Seems like the new looking condos I see sell for a heck of a lot more than that, and they don’t have a gorgeous exterior like this.
Oh, it doesn’t look like any generic condo inside. That’s unfair.
Glad Bessie said that because it puts a different light on things knowing the building was brought back from being uninhabitable. Not speaking to the price, which is probably high, but I think it’s hard to judge the renovation from these pictures.
Historical detail is overhyped.
Period moldings and fireplaces can always be bought and installed later.
Good bones and location are far more important . . .
“I knew the guy who originally renovated this place. It was boarded up and sans detail and required a gut job in the late 1980’s early 1990’s.”
It’s good to know the details were gone prior to this latest reno. That said, a house without those original details is hardly worth this asking price. It looks like any generic condo once inside.
forget the price, but this actually looks like a nice place to live. the rents coming in are terrific.
it’s clean and nice. of course i’m probably the only one that thought immediately that it looked great sans the stifling ugly victorian nonsense. really love the fireplace. cool if it works.
Yeah, it’s kind of a disappointment for the price.
Not to mention, it’s open to debate whether or not Forte Green is a good neighborhood to live in. By “good,” I mean worth paying millions of dollars, and not having to worry late at night about getting mugged.