House of the Day: 465 56th Street

This house at 465 56th Street in Sunset Park just hit the market with an asking price of $995,000, a number that frankly feels aggressive to us for the location. The house itself is pretty nice but not a show-stopper. The exterior is brownstone and has a lovely rounded front, so big points for that. The interior definitely has some original charm but the renovation that was done on the place screams “contractor/flipper” and hurts the overall feel of the place. Not that you couldn’t replace the generic new doors that litter the house with salvaged ones for a modest outlay but the characterless touches do mount up. Don’t get us wrong: This place is perfectly nice and will appeal to plenty of people but our sense of the market in Sunset Park is that it takes something pretty special to fetch $995,000 and this house doesn’t quite rise to that level.
465 56th Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark