House of the Day: 193 Washington Park
It’s been a long, unsuccessful sales effort at 193 Washington Park. There’s nothing wrong with the property: 6,500 square feet of brownstone-y goodness overlooking Fort Greene Park. The price, however, clearly has been an issue. The property was a House of the Day back in 2007 when it was first listed for $3,875,000 (which resulted…
It’s been a long, unsuccessful sales effort at 193 Washington Park. There’s nothing wrong with the property: 6,500 square feet of brownstone-y goodness overlooking Fort Greene Park. The price, however, clearly has been an issue. The property was a House of the Day back in 2007 when it was first listed for $3,875,000 (which resulted in one commenter at the time saying “Give me a break”). It was reduced in early 2008 to $3,625,000, and later that year to $3,285,000 before being delisted in December. The mega-brownstone returned to the market in April with trimmed-down price tag of $2,975,000. Think it’ll sell at this price?
193 Washington Park [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
193 Washington Park Price Cut [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 193 Washington Park [Brownstoner]
Someone should buy this mess for 2M and then spend 1M to return it to it’s former glory.
Will probably sell for around 2.5, though.
The floorplan shows a kitchen on every floor.
And 4 1/2 baths.
Clearly a 4-family.
It looks like a beautiful house, but you think for that price they could have taken some better photos.
Didn’t that artist whose career was greatly blostered by Mayor Giuliani (seemingly the only elected official to care about art)… you know… the artist who made his fortune using dung in his paintings… didn’t he buy a brownstone on this block last year for 3M?
Sounds like issues with the C of O and potentially hard to dislodge tenants make this a tough sell at anything approaching the list price. Too bad too because it looks like an amazing house. If it was already set up as a triplex over garden rental, or even double duplex, it could fetch a pretty penny. Will be interesting to track what happens to this one from here. Clearly the incremental price decreases are not moving it though so probably time for a wholesale rethink on the part of the sellers.
The taxes are high, probably because it is a legal four-family. The rent rolls would set the price for an income-producing building-and I doubt that would be three miiion.
As a single-family home, it has a lot of competition at this price including intact houses in Park Slope and Cobble Hill.
If I were the realtor, I would not push the proximity to shopping on Myrtle Avenue as a plus for a property with this pricetag.
“those parlor floors are incredible.”
I was going to say the same thing.
Floors are WOW!!
C of O says it’s a 4 family. Listing doesn’t say anything about tenants. No pictures nor any description of any kitchens or baths make me suspect.
Sorry, but 4 separate 1 BR apartments are hardly a ” beautiful dream” – these guys need to lay off the cheesy marketing-speak…