House of the Day: 202 Clermont Avenue
After selling in 2006 for $1,625,000, the brick house at 202 Clermont Avenue in Fort Greene came on the market again in March 2009 with Brooklyn Properties at a price of $1,725,000. In May of last year, the asking price was trimmed to $1,675,000, and in September the listing moved to Corcoran at a slightly…
After selling in 2006 for $1,625,000, the brick house at 202 Clermont Avenue in Fort Greene came on the market again in March 2009 with Brooklyn Properties at a price of $1,725,000. In May of last year, the asking price was trimmed to $1,675,000, and in September the listing moved to Corcoran at a slightly enhanced price of $1,695,000. Well, that didn’t work too well, and the price had a couple of small reductions last fall, followed by another increase (!) in February, bringing it back to $1,675,000. (You following?) Last week, the price was cut by 7 percent to $1,550,000. Exhausting! What’s the right number?
202 Clermont Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 202 Clermont Avenue [Brownstoner]
DIBs have you ever actually tried riding the G train? Its actually one of the better lines I have used to commute with over the past 10 years of living in Manhattan on UWS, UES, Gramercy/Union Square, and northside of Williamsburg. Sure, it doesnt get you directly into Manhattan. But from the Clinton Washington stop (which is about a 7-8 minute walk from this house), you can get to Wall Street in 25 minutes, to 23rd and Park in 35, and to midtown in 30. Oh yeah, and you get a seat.
The location on this house is poor. Its on the bad side of Willoughby, which is the informal dividing line in FG/CH of haves and have nots for property value. If nothing else, any prospective buyers inevitably look up and see the projects on myrtle looming less than a block away, and they wonder when they will get mugged or their house will get robbed. This is exactly what we always thought for the 4 months that we negotiated for a 22 foot wide italianate with a 115 foot lot on the Park last year. It was three houses past willoughby in the wrong direction, and we were always questioning if / when the mugging would happen to us on the late night commute home from the office. Luckily that one fell through for other reasons so we didnt have to make that decision, but Im sure that is what is driving the price here. Just two blocks south, 281 Clermont just went into contract for $2M+ after less than 3 weeks on the market at $2.4M list price. That should tell you something about the market and about FG real estate. If its in a decent location, value is holding up pretty well.
Living by the train iws not all it’s cracked up to be. The vents from the C were in front of my 2nd floor apartment when I lived on Fulton and South Portland. You could hear the conductor saying “this train is going express.”
hopstop has never actually done it.
“How is Myrtle Ave?
I know my friends used to call it “Murder Ave,”
I still call it Murder Ave for nostalgia sake. Was on it over the weekend and my gosh how it’s changed! And IMO will keep changing. It’s just gonna get better and better.
hopstop says 43 minutes to RockCenter including all the walking.
Well, this has nothing to do with anything, but I recently saw a flyer that advertised a teardown in Palo Alto, Calif., for $4 million. (Prices there are about the same as Park Slope, $2 to $4 million.)
myrtle is crap. this house is crap. subway is crap. ps20 is crap. now can I buy it for <$1M?
Myrtle Ave I would say is one of the most remarkably transformed retail strips in Brooklyn. It is now a bustling strip with a wide assortment of retail outlets, restaurants, banks etc.
I don’t know the neighborhood so well.
How is Myrtle Ave?
I know my friends used to call it “Murder Ave,” but that was back in the ’90s.
Is it safe now?