Just Sold in Brooklyn
WEST MIDWOOD $1,200,000 735 Westminster Road GMAP 7 bedrooms, 3 full baths, closed August 7th, 2007. A 1910 clapboard house, legal 2 family with renovated ownwers duplex, 3 gas fire places, new kitchen and baths, new windows, orginal wood detail, with dirveway and garage. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher. KENSINGTON $462,500 717 East Ninth Street GMAP…
WEST MIDWOOD $1,200,000
735 Westminster Road GMAP
7 bedrooms, 3 full baths, closed August 7th, 2007. A 1910 clapboard house, legal 2 family with renovated ownwers duplex, 3 gas fire places, new kitchen and baths, new windows, orginal wood detail, with dirveway and garage. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher.
KENSINGTON $462,500
717 East Ninth Street GMAP
Three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath semidetached brick duplex on a 16-by-100-foot lot, with formal dining room, eat-in kitchen, sunroom, den, unfinished basement and rear deck. Asking price $499,000, on market 3 1â„2 months. Broker: Tracey Real Estate.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS $680,000
255 Eastern Parkway GMAP
Prewar 3 1/2-bedroom, two-bath condo, 1,391 square feet, with windowed eat-in kitchen with dishwasher and microwave, parquet floors, window AC and S/E exposures with skyline views; Woodrow Wilson building is pet-friendly and features doorman, laundry and storage. Asking price $675,000, on market 101 days. Broker: Cindy McField, The Corcoran Group.
DITMAS PARK $268,500
570 Westminster Road GMAP
1-bedroom, 1-bath, 850-sq.-ft. co-op in a postwar building; maintenance $501, 48 percent tax deductible; listed at $250,000 (multiple bids), 2 weeks on market. Broker: Brooklyn Hearth Realty.
And a reader sent this one in:
SUNSET PARK $990,000
471 51st Street GMAP 3-story, 2,655-square-foot townhouse on a 20×100 ft. lot; listed at $1,100,000 for sale by owner. The buyer says: We recently closed on the Sunset Park house you listed here back in Jan. It was $990k, which we felt was pretty fair considering the commercial overlay, unused FAR, tight renovations, and turn-key condition of it all. We oozed down to Sunset Park from the Slope since it’s so much more affordable, we love the neighborhood so far – albeit there’s nothing in the same vein as the Slope in terms of bars/cafes/bistros etc. The roast suckling pig I tried last night at Lucky Eight on 52nd and 8th ave. would give any Park Slope restaurant a run for its money though.
First item from Living in Victorian Flatbush; second and third items from The New York Post; fourth item from the print edition of yesterday’s New York Times.
The house on E 7th Street is in Parkville, I believe, not Kensington. Ditmas Ave is commonly considered the southern border of Kensington.
I think this is one of the first sign of gentrification – expansion of a neighborhood’s borders by brokers.
I think there is a mistake on the SP house listing. The photo shows three floors including the parlor. There is a garden floor & a basement too. If the house is 20X50, that’s 1000 sq ft per floor, including the basement, brings it to 5000 sq ft.
I’m not surprised that the Sunset Park sold for that price. I’ve seen the house. It was in move in condition, a great deal of renovation was already done! It’s a four story building plus a basement with a landscaped yard. The owner could have a lower duplex and 2 or 3 rentals in this 5,000. square feet house. I think it was a smart choice for the couple who bought it.
Let’s see. $990,000 is 10% less than $1,100,000. Can a ten percent discount off of the asking price be considered “anywhere near”? I guess it depends on the definition of “anywhere”. I’ll chew on my shoelaces while I ponder this, but I definitely won’t be having wing tips for dinner.
Eastern Parkway place looks like a great deal
Going back to the original SP listing there was this comment:
I own a three family frame across the street from 471 51st Street. It gets really noisy in the summer from the large apartment building across the street. If they get anywhere near that $1.1m asking price, I will eat my shoe.
Posted by: Shahn Andersen at January 19, 2007 1:10 PM
I’d say $990k is somewhere near $1.1M. So will you be blogging the eating of your shoe Shahn?
Sorry about that–I made a couple of errors in this post. The info should be correct now.
ditmas was asking 499 and sold for 268?
that sounds fishy.
do we have a ‘cut-and-paste’ error on the kensington and ditmas park listings?