House of the Day: 220 Seeley Street
This cute one-family at 220 Seeley Street just hit the market with a price tag of $1,250,000. It’s got some very nice original details (parquet floors, beamed ceilings) and that holy grail of New York real estate, its own driveway. The broker is unknown (to us) but did a thorough job on the listing. What…
This cute one-family at 220 Seeley Street just hit the market with a price tag of $1,250,000. It’s got some very nice original details (parquet floors, beamed ceilings) and that holy grail of New York real estate, its own driveway. The broker is unknown (to us) but did a thorough job on the listing. What do you make of the price?
220 Seeley Street [Turner Structures] GMAP P*Shark
Realtor is deluded. Check out their other listing on Berkeley Place: http://www.turnerstructures.com/000167.html
Saw the place. Way overpriced. It’s listed as a 3-bedroom – guess what, the third bedroom is the living room!
“Kinda sad,if you really think about what you’re getting for the price”
Yeah,in most other cities on the east coast this place goes for 10% of the price these people are asking for.In the nicer,safer parts of Philly,this kinda house goes for 80-90k tops.
“than please explain the 50 gazillion free parking spots in the projects :-/”
Positively correlated. The richer a household, the more likely they are to own one or more vehicles.
Most housing projects were built at a time when Tower in the Park was the prevailing aesthetic, which left a lot of open land for parking, playgrounds, etc. Those built after 1961 were required by zoning to provide ample accessory parking, even though the projects would be occupied by people too poor to own a car. So the amount of required parking often exceeds demand.
The current zoning includes a drastic reduction in the amount of required parking for lower-income housing.
Pete, I know you. You’ve got a crush on Marty and just want to find out where he lives.
so again I ask how does this compare to WT house marty markowitz just bought for $1.45M?
http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/12/17/2009-12-17_markowitz_ends_years_of_renting_with_purchase_of_145m_home_in_windsor_terrace_ma.html
Someone that knows area should be able to figure out which block Marty bought on and compare it to this house.
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Since vehicle ownership is very strongly correlated with income, I would bet that as the neighborhood has become more affluent over the past decade, even more households have cars.
than please explain the 50 gazillion free parking spots in the projects :-/
*rob*
“Driveways are also anti-urban and ruin streetscapes.”
So “urban” would be putting a chair in the street to save your parking spot and beating the crap out of anyone that moved it?
“shillstoner, where have you been? I’ve missed you.
I actually agree with your post here though.”
Strange things happen.
57% is hardly the “vast majority” and as Sprafucile states that data is from 200–the number of car owners has definitely incresed a great deal.
In my comment, I said brownstone owners–and that is what matters when we’re talking about how important a garage is to a brownstone. Whether or not renters have cars is irrelevant. According to Sprafucile, 66% of Park slope owners had cars in 2000.
Ah, I was responding to Shillstoner, who was responding to Zinka who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night.