House of the Day: 17 Garden Place
This charming townhouse at 17 Garden Place was on the market for a couple of months last fall with a price that started with the number 4. After taking the winter off, the single-family home has been re-listed as a co-broke for $3,700,000, which brings the price per square foot under the $1,000 mark. While…
This charming townhouse at 17 Garden Place was on the market for a couple of months last fall with a price that started with the number 4. After taking the winter off, the single-family home has been re-listed as a co-broke for $3,700,000, which brings the price per square foot under the $1,000 mark. While not quite one-of-a-kind, the house is pretty darn unusual and special and has clearly had a spare-no-expense renovation. Do you think the price is in the ballpark now?
17 Garden Place [Brown Harris Stevens]
17 Garden Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
about prices, there have been a lot of sales in BH lately. at all price points. not sure about prices, but seems to me the things that were sitting for 6 months are now back to going to contract within 2 months.
There were a bunch of people looking at this place today.
Wonder who the famous person who lives here is. Not Gabriel Byrne — altho he lives right across the street
Homey, I think Donatella is right about prices going up for Brooklyn Heights, it’s just a question of “from where”. 2009 was pretty sleepy, very few deals closed and the ones that did were roughly at 2005 prices, in the mid $3 million range. The recent crop of sales and in-contracts looks like prices are headed back up to 2006 levels, with the top houses selling in the mid to high $4 million range. But not a return to the peak of the market in that neighborhood in 2007/early 2008 where several trophy-level houses sold over $5 million.
um are there really two halves in brooklyn heights?! i dont think so.
*rob*
Pigeon and DIBS, my friend thinks it is pretty ridiculous too.
the nice thing about a house like this is that it demonstrates that the “other half” doesn’t get to live all that differently than the rest of us. at least not if they want to do it in brooklyn heights.
As for the comment by Donatella that prices in BH seem to be going up. Well, where are the sales to prove it. There are currently 5 houses in BH priced over 5 million. Not one has sold yet, so we really don’t know if prices are going up, or if sellers are just deluded. The last contract was Gabriel Byrnes house on Garden place. It was bigger and better than this one, for sure. Don’t know the final number, but it was somewhere around 4.1 – 4.2, and it was completely done, staged, etc. I just don’t see this house in this price range.
Pigeon, I think that house you posted was HOTD some time back…and yes, I would take that in an instant over today’s hunter shack.
This one just isn’t reasonable. 3.7 for a 15 foot wide house, with no backyard, no functioning fireplace, no master suite, no roofdeck or terrace, a large chunk of the living space in the basement and what appears to be a 15 to 20 year old renovation? I’ll hand it to them that the block is lovely and probably one of the prettiest in Brooklyn Heights, but 3.7 million seems waaaaay out there for this home.
We looked at one of these homes about a year and a half ago on Garden Place. Might have been next door to this one, though I’m not sure. It felt very narrow, dark and short. And while this appears to be in finer shape than that one had been, I don’t think it can justify this kind of coin. Just my .02.