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 that it feels a little (not entirely!) sterile. Not my taste, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t “work.”
Dislike.
I’m with Ditmas, I wouldn’t pay that kinda money in Brooklyn Heights (known for its glorious architecture) to walk up to that ugly hot mess.
I guess the interior is fine, but there is WAYYY better on the market for less.
I don’t really like any of it. It’s way sterile and just kind of eh….
For that kind of money, you can get so much more flavor and elegance than that.
So… this house was sold to Dweck and Levine in 2005, but as an LLC. I’m assuming that this meant that this house was never meant to be lived in, but rather renovated and flipped all along? And if Dweck or Levine lived there, they would have paid the LLC rent?
Something like that? Or do rich people normally form corporations to buy their houses?
There are plenty of buyers for this apartment despite the fact that Mr. B. claims it doesn’t neatly fall into the ultra-modern or preservation category. Its a nice, big house in a nice area where supply is low.
Who knows what the reno entailed, but it could have been anywhere from $200,000 to $750,000.
I would be shocked if it went for less than $2.75m, but then I’ve been shocked before. I do not think they will get over $3m.
“humble opinion.” Heehee.
For me, hard to get a sense of the feel or design consistency of this house (with exception of the bathroom) from the photos. If I had to guess, it does look like it works as a balance between trad. and modern, rather than “neither here nor there.” But would have to see.
It may be somewhat pretty on the inside – except for the “classy” bathroom – but the exterior is fugly.
This house lacks personality–it is entirely sterile. Almost feels like a staged environment–it has that hotel feel about it.
Yeah – i don’t even bother with the widgets anymore. The price tags are meaningless to me.