House of the Day: 177 Rugby Road
This house at 177 Rugby Road in Prospect House South is a beauty (we’re sold on the basis of that staircase alone!) but it’s been on the market longer than just about any house in the borough that we can think of. We featured it has a House of the Day way back in 2006…
This house at 177 Rugby Road in Prospect House South is a beauty (we’re sold on the basis of that staircase alone!) but it’s been on the market longer than just about any house in the borough that we can think of. We featured it has a House of the Day way back in 2006 when it was listed for $2,500,000; after a year off the market, the house just came back on again with an asking price of $1,800,000, but obviously they started too high and didn’t cut fast enough. Now what? Where does it end?
Colonial Revival Home [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: Rugby Road Mansion [Brownstoner]
“This is one of those houses that could benefit from some staging. It looks way fuddy-duddier than it has to and I feel like that is a sales killer. If it was photographed empty or at least massively stripped of the owners belongings (super minimalist) the space would show a lot better. Its a pretty sweet house.” (wadser)
Totally agree. People right here on this thread are misreading this house. The staircase is the only detail worth saving? There’s nice detail all over the place. The fireplace is ugly? Well, even if you don’t like it, you can’t say it’s lacking in detail. And . . . I think without all the clutter and bad furniture AND with professional lighting and photography, it’d be hard to find it “ugly.”
In the appraisal done for my refi, one of the comps was 209 Rugby which sold for $900k on 7/1/2009. It’s a crappy little 2 story not nearly as nice or big as this house. A prospective buyer is going to get stuck with this comp on the same block, and 177 it won’t appraise anywhere near ask. Presumably buyer will make a huge down payment so may not matter. Probably not at POOPS renter, but someone with some money who sells to buy here because they want space, light, trees, … Oh, wait – you’d be crazy to come out here. Much too dangerous on top of being absurdly overpriced. Stay in Park Slope, please.
oooops, I mean Prospect Park South.
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Thanks Snark.
– Everybody POOPS!
And it seems like they’re spreading their mist to Flatbush.
It’s called a Foucault Pendulum & it probably would work here.
So if you’re priced out of Riverdale, you’re “POOR”?
> Hope you don’t mind, I spread it on the OT.
Feel free, brownjokester. Everybody POOPS!
– They’re called POOPS (Priced Out Of Park Slope).
Snark, that’s hysterical!!
Hope you don’t mind, I spread it on the OT.
I saw this on the house tour and really liked the feel of the interior. Not the decorating, but the elements of the house. The fireplace is quite nice, once you clear away the nick-knacks, grow some imagination people! Also re the fireplace you should be thinking turn-of-the-century aesthetic, not the more ornate style of many brownstones (marble surround and mantle). Brick was seen as a solid, authentic, practical fireplace surround material, something from colonial times. The lamp hanging in the stairway was very impressive when I was there.