House of the Day: 15 Clarkson Avenue
This new listing at 15 Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a beauty. It’s dripping with original woodwork and has an attractive modern kitchen as well. The current only paid $540,000 for it back in 2007, but we’re assuming he’s put some work into it since then. The current asking price is $789,000. Achievable…
This new listing at 15 Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a beauty. It’s dripping with original woodwork and has an attractive modern kitchen as well. The current only paid $540,000 for it back in 2007, but we’re assuming he’s put some work into it since then. The current asking price is $789,000. Achievable for this location?
15 Clarkson Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Im pretty sure this is a non land marked location. Many properties in this area are “dripping with detail”, but to achieve an asking price that high it needs to be a land marked in my opinion. 138 Rutland Rd. a land marked property closed in November for $610,000, it needed a ton of work, at most 250k. If you add that up you’ve got a land marked home worth around 900k, to ask for almost 800k for a non land marked home in a “so so” location is absurd. Elliman has a property on Sterling Pl. a similar location which has previously been featured as a “house of the day” which i believe is in the low 600s which is much more reasonable. Id be surprised if this home got more than 600-650k.
Sink in kitchen is awkward and would be annoying to deal with.
the house on hawthorne looked lovely, but way way overpriced. i guess people are more interested in space than neighborhood quality, which will eventually help the neighborhood grow and shift into a more family-friendly place in the upcoming years.
I’m sure the floor plan is coming; they obviously rushed to get this up ASAP. The market for a one family house in the non-historic portion of PLG is variable; if this were a two it would be a much easier sell, but a one family on Hawthorne just closed for over $900K, so you never know.
Incidentally, this is the southernmost street in the neighborhood, and far from the “epicenter.” Referring to the third bedroom for the “growing family” is flirting with Fair Housing trouble (goes to steering and familial status issues). And I have no desire to check out those “sun brazen” benches in the garden, although the idea of a “beaming living room,” does sound nice – who wouldn’t like a smile from your living room when you get home?
The price for this house isn’t scary bad. PLG is pretty far off the map (hence the low price), neighborhood-wise. No grocery stores, no bars or restaurants beyond take out places on Flatbush. Some idiot paid close to $1M a few months ago (it was HOTD) for a house a few blocks from this one, about the same size, with a much smaller kitchen and a worse exterior. The fact that this house is just about two blocks from the Park is pretty sweet. $789,000 sounds good.
Lack of floorplan no big deal – get off your butt and go to the open house!
Slopefarm,
The lack of floorplans causes some harm. In general, better listings will attract more attention. So, a listing should be good, and should include floorplans.
Many buyers don’t want to waste time looking at things that are not right for them. If the listing is unclear, these buyers will not put this home on the top of their list.
I get the point, DIBS. But even in this brave new world, if a home was in the right location and was in the ballpark for the size I was looking for, I would go see it, online floor plan or no. It’s the intensity of the inevitable rant — park sloper is far from alone on this — that I find odd. I think the real problem is that it deprives those of us with no intention of buying of the opportunity to comment, not any harm to prospective buyers.
The interior looks very beautiful.
Really lovely.
The relatively low price is explained by google streetview. Vehicular traffic, bodegas, and graffitied walls. Not the best neighbors.
And I agree with Park Slopers rant about the lack of a floorplan.
slope, his point though was that this is no longer “the old days” without internet. Brokers tend to be very lazy people. it’s quite apalling how many of them actually survive in a “service industry.”