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?
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House of the Day: Rugby Road Mansion [Brownstoner]
It DOES feel like a suburb! And 25 mins from Union Sq. Trees and little lawns and such. But don’t move there, it’s a hell hole. Actually don’t even visit, you’ll probably be shot.
(And it’s Prospect Park South, not Park Slope South… which I think is what Bay Ridge is called now according to the real estate folks.)
Wow, I have never heard anyone describe PPS as anything but a great area! While I’ll never get seriously involved in the pricing/widget game, I’ve always been under the impression that houses in PPS could generally command much more on the market than other nabes in Vic Flatbush. (Sorry, neuroticalways, I hear you about the obnoxious renaming game and don’t mean to play into it. But. . . there are long established pricing differences within Flatbush — or most nabes for that matter — whether we like it or not.)
Neurotical… I agree, I tell people flatbush. But flatbush is really big (especially if you include “East Flatbush”) — so it doesn’t narrow it down very much.
Where do you live? Flatbush. Sort of like Bushwick and Bed-Stuy… they’re huge. We happen to have these silly sub-units to help narrow it down. And actually, some of them “Ditmas Park” and “Beverly Square” are very old names. Not invented realtors 5 years ago.
I haven’t been to this part of Park Slope South (aka Flatbush).
But it looks like a suburb.
Does it feel like a suburb, too?
ok, let’t get this straight…this house is in Flatbush. Got it? FLATBUSH!!! I live here, it’s great. I am so sick of this renaming of neighborhoods in order to detach themselves from a neighborhood that is considered “undesirable”. Ditmas Park?! Prospect Park South?! It’s Flatbush.
“A house in the tony burbs will have r.e. taxes in the 25-30,000 a year range.”
I don’t think so
I would say more like $15K (no land here)
This argument about property taxes is ridiculous. An income of $300K that is needed to support a $900K purchase is taxed $10K by the city. In addition you need to pay $6K property taxes. Suburbans do not pay city taxes! At the end it works the same.
You’re right Gemini… PPSouth and Ditmas Park sucks big time and the prices should be slashed if they expect anyone to live here… err… there.
(I’m trying to keep my rent down.)
A house in the tony burbs will have r.e. taxes in the 25-30,000 a year range. But if you have a couple of kids, it’s worth it. What are the public schools like in PPS? Any close-by private schools? I think the person most likely to buy this house is the one with a couple of kids.
I have to agree – the pricing is sooooo ridiculous and I would say offensive
I mean 1.8 for PPS??? and for this house that you will have to at least put $200K to get it up to modern day standards
huh????
I mean you can find a gorgeous 4 story brownstone in Park Slope for that amount
hells you can find a sprawling house in the tony burbs for LESS than that!