House of the Day: 36 Joralemon Street
36 Joralemon Street was an Open House Pick last September while it was listed with Brown Harris Stevens for $3,800,000. Now the listing’s moved to Corcoran and the asking price’s been reduced to $3,450,000. This is going to be a tricky one: The owners have clearly spent a lot of time and money renovating the…
36 Joralemon Street was an Open House Pick last September while it was listed with Brown Harris Stevens for $3,800,000. Now the listing’s moved to Corcoran and the asking price’s been reduced to $3,450,000. This is going to be a tricky one: The owners have clearly spent a lot of time and money renovating the brick house since they bought it for $2,325,000 in 2005. Some of the rooms look nice, but there are enough strange design decisions (in our humble opinion) that a large percentage of potential buyers will be turned off. At the end of the day, we suspect this will be another example of a house that suffers on the market from being neither traditional nor truly modern.
36 Joralemon Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Agree with those who say their furnishings don’t help – very sterile, like a corporate business center. Call me crazy, but for $3.5 million, I want a garden, not just a roof terrace. Then again I’d probably buy a much nicer house on Garden Place or Sidney Place and not be 1/2 block from the BQE.
According to the listing it has a separate “dinging” area. That alone has to worth an extra $1 million.
That bathroom is soo awful!!!! Who lives this way?!? Where is the light?
CHRIST – it wasnt klassy ten years ago – it was passable in 81 – so sad…
What is also depressing is the decorating in the dining room – THAT mirror and the table and chairs- who staged this place?
I would tear it up inside but not before adding gasoline and a match to that bathroom, sometimes you just need to start all over…
There’s nothing about this listing that says ‘house”. It really it just a modern apartment spread out over four floors. There’s no stoop and no yard. So I would think prospective buyers are going to come from entrenched apartment dwellers rather then house lovers.
Having children as we do, there’s just no way we would have bought a house without the yard
Property Shark has it as 3,560 sq ft which puts the current price at a fraction under $1,000 psf.
Interestingly Property Shark also says
Bldg dimensions 32.92 ft x 29 ft
Lot dimensions 33.17 ft x 25 ft
Which doesn’t make sense how the building could be 4 feet over the lot line (unless that’s just the one floor where the office window juts out)
$1k psf seems a little steep. How many apartments this size & at what price have moved in 1BB or in Dumbo recently?
i like the house – surprised that no one has commented on house ‘short’ or irregular the shape it. it’s shorter than a traditional lot and has no back yard to speak of. here is where i think the problem lies for this price. love the neighborhood and the location.
Roof deck is NICE!!!
It has pillows. You just cant see them cause their beige. And it has curtains, well — “window treatment” — you just can’t see it cause it’s window colored.
Interesting idea that if you’re going to strip out original details, you gotta put in ultra-modern, high-design kitchen and baths. Could be.
However, if they just warmed up that living room a bit with some curtains or pillows or something, I bet this house would be just fine.
Also, furniture is adding to sterile feeling. Could look much more inviting with different furnishing.