House of the Day: 28 Middagh Street
42 Middagh Street is charming as all heck from the outside, and the modern renovation that was recently performed on it looks quite tastefully done as well. Still, the asking price of the Brooklyn Heights house seems pretty pricey at $4,200,000, especially when you consider the current owners paid only $1,280,000 back in 2004. We’re…
42 Middagh Street is charming as all heck from the outside, and the modern renovation that was recently performed on it looks quite tastefully done as well. Still, the asking price of the Brooklyn Heights house seems pretty pricey at $4,200,000, especially when you consider the current owners paid only $1,280,000 back in 2004. We’re sure they didn’t scrimp on the makeover but we also doubt they dropped three million bucks on it. Thoughts?
28 Middagh Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
$2.8m.
This house is pretty big. It is on a wide lot and is four full stories. I don’t measure residential value by square footage. That doesn’t work in historic districts. It only works in cookie-cutter subdivisions. 4.2 million seems like way too much for this house. I agree. But if someone loves the modernist aesthetic inside the quaint exterior one stop away from the financial district, then it may be worth it to them.
So not my style- it looks like any box condo iside now. Uninhabitable aside- there is nothing of any period charm left. Sad.
ha ha ha maly. i remember that thread well and thought of the same thing. guess renos are more expensive in bh.
ML, you are the Brooklyn Heights expert. What is the going rate $/sf for a renovated house in BH? This house looks like 3600 sf including the garage, it seems insanely expensive to have a rather modest duplex with a parking spot.
Funnily enough, this house is pretty much the same size as that little frame on Adelphi. So you CAN spend a million bucks and a year on a house that small after all?
If you study the floorplan you will note that it is a two-family with separate entrances. The owner’s duplex is entered from a side door up a flight of stairs on the side of the building. There is a little portico there and it is pretty nice. The renovation easily cost a million dollars.
Weird layout, very heavy on dining rooms, not so much on private space. It looks expensive and dangerous/uninviting. I could see this house as a set for the next reality TV installment.
I saw the metal chairs on tiled floor and cringed.
Lotta money. Lotta tile. You don’t need railings, you just gently touch the wall as you descend, and every six months wash the wall. Seriously, wonder how that passed inspection.
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