House of the Day: 315 Garfield Place
As Curbed noted earlier this week, the monster mansion at 315 Garfield Place in Park Slope which tested the waters with an $8.5 million asking price back in the dark days of late 2008, is back. The 28-foot-wide house is still just as gorgeous, the market is stronger and, at $8.15 million, the price is…
As Curbed noted earlier this week, the monster mansion at 315 Garfield Place in Park Slope which tested the waters with an $8.5 million asking price back in the dark days of late 2008, is back. The 28-foot-wide house is still just as gorgeous, the market is stronger and, at $8.15 million, the price is slightly more within reach. Think they’ll get close?
315 Garfield Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Wow.
From those pictures, rich people sure do like to sit!
Lower UWSider…when was this place built??? I was assuming it was mid/late 19th century. If it’s 20th C then, unfortunately, the wainscoting c/b original, as cheaply done as it is!!!! 🙁
Thanks for the compliment.
8 Mil! God Bless lol
If they get 8 million for this place Ill be blown away. 8 million really? and they paid 3 million when they bought less than 10 years ago? Thats a pretty good return on your investment lol…NUTS! No shot maybe its a 4 million dollar home MAYBEEEEEEE…8 million dollars are you F’ing serious? That price tag really limits your buyer pool lol…that’s even a lil too pricey for celebs…
Asking price justification as relayed to me recently when looking at a brownstone Brooklyn property (not this one) with my buyer client:
Me: So what are the comps to support your asking price on this property?
Listing broker: There is nothing else like it on the market.
Me: Brilliant!
This is a gorgeous house – agreed – totally move in ready. I love the exterior as well
That being said – I agree with Dibs – shaving off $350K is a strange pricing strategy
why not price it slightly under 8mill or just leave the price alone!
Oh, and DiBS, I think I disagree on the panel moldings. Those applied moldings were use in the vast majority of Manhattan apartments built between 1900 and 1930. At least two of CPH Gilbert’s houses on Montgomery (36 and 46) have them as well, so I think they could be original.
Also, if you do move to Philly, please keep posting on the Brooklyn site. I’ve found your posts to be very helpful over the years.
She’s a beauty. But you don’t really get too much of an effect of a wider house. The stair hall is too wide. Shoulda made it same width as the 20-footers and yielded more living width. Yeah, I said it, Montrose! Dead architects be damned! (and what up wit dat home depo-ish front door?)
Alright, back to the market talk. 3.3 mil in ’06. Nearly 5 mil/6k = $833/SF to renovate?! Hurry up! Open house for the existing Kosciusko Bridge ends @ 3pm.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Umm, I kind of think the details are original. I’ve been in a number of houses by the same architect, both in Park Slope and Manhattan, and his interiors tended toward arts and crafts early on and colonial and renaissance revival later on. He didn’t do the more typical high Victorian detail that you find in a lot of brownstones.
Anyway, I think the price is high, but there have been a couple of sales of renovated Park Slope homes recently in the $1,000 – 1,100 per square foot range, so it’s not that far off the mark.
Regarding the architectural detail…
1. The crown moldings look to be original. if they are not, they are VERY well done
2. The stained woodwork library looks to be original and if it is not is VERY well done with true raised panelling.
3. The wainscoting (what the realtor calls skirts) is not original and is poorly dome with molding applied to the wall surface, no panelling…it’s definitely not original.
It’s an incredible house. No idea what it will or should sell for.