Last Week's Biggest Sales
1. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $3,200,000 32 College Place GMAP (left) A 2,820-square-foot, single-family house, according to Property Shark. Entered into contract on 12/9/08; closed on 2/11/09; deed recorded on 3/20/09. 2. COBBLE HILL $2,300,000 17 Cheever Place GMAP (right) This 2,488-sf two-family hit the market in June, listed at $2,750,000; the price was subsequently decreased to…
1. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $3,200,000
32 College Place GMAP (left)
A 2,820-square-foot, single-family house, according to Property Shark. Entered into contract on 12/9/08; closed on 2/11/09; deed recorded on 3/20/09.
2. COBBLE HILL $2,300,000
17 Cheever Place GMAP (right)
This 2,488-sf two-family hit the market in June, listed at $2,750,000; the price was subsequently decreased to $2,575,000. The house had been “meticulously gut-renovated to perfection,” according to its listing; the sellers bought it for $1,130,000 in early ’06. Entered into contract on 11/10/08; closed on 3/6/09; deed recorded on 3/16/09.
3. PROSPECT HEIGHTS $2,000,000
210 Prospect Place GMAP
This 3,633-sf, single-family townhouse was first listed for $2,495,000 last summer; the price was dropped to $2,250,000 in October. As noted in a House of the Day post, its owners gave it an extreme makeover. Entered into contract on 2/5/09; closed on 3/10/09; deed recorded on 3/19/09.
4. PARK SLOPE $1,620,824
520 8th Street GMAP
This 3,000-sf, three-family last sold for $999,999 in late 2007, according to Property Shark. Entered into contract on 3/6/09; closed on 3/6/09; deed recorded on 3/18/09.
5. CARROLL GARDENS $1,575,000
356 President Street GMAP
This 4,500-square-foot house was listed for $1,820,000 when it got House of the Day treatment last November. Entered into contract on 1/19/09; closed on 3/10/09; deed recorded on 3/18/09.
Photos from Property Shark.
I agree Coquille St. Jacques. That would be a great idea. I’m sure there are cheap (although rather dreadful and depressing) good deals out there.
I would imagine the Best Deals are in areas that may be next decade’s most exciting neighborhood.
While I love real estate porn as much as any reader here, I would like to see more info about properties in the real world that most of us non-bonus-pool NY’ers live in. How about a new feature: “Best deals of the Week”?
And, I MUST add: that Cobble Hill house with that complete overhaul and no original detail…I can’t believe a house with so little curb appeal, what appears to be a chain link fence out front and lousy looking replacement windows (is basically “ugly”) would sell for this kind of money. Not that I’m surprised considering the market but 20 years ago who would have thought a house like that from the outside would go for 2 million and somthing?
Every week I continue to be floored by the high sale prices. Even if they are below the asking price and possibly lower than they were last year at this time. The run up was so fast and steep the last 5 years.
We could sell our house for the current asking price of a one-bedrooms in our neighborhood and still walk away with something…of course, we bought our house a good number of years ago…ugh! Time flies….And we don’t have many years left to the pay-off date…I wonder what THAT will feel like. H’mmm.
Anyone here finished paying a 30-year mortgage? Benson, NOP, you other old-timers?…you know who you are!!! 🙂
People kept telling us to refinance into another 30-year mortgage but I’m kind of glad we didn’t/haven’t. Are we being dumb not to?
What, is that what you told your woodshop teacher when he asked why you keep skipping class and hanging out in the computer lab?
Team Reasonable. I like that wasder. Too bad I couldn’t hang around at Floyd too long last week.
Price cuts from unreasonable asking prices are expected and warranted. If a house doesn’t get full asking it doesn’t mean that it lost value, it means that it sold for what it’s worth in a fair market and was asked too much to begin with.
That’s all I have to say. Have to get back to the emails. Peace Out 🙂
“Nope Assnut, people get tired of auguring with Retards….”
And retards get tired of trying to decipher your poor use of the English language, numbnuts.
Brooklyn Greene – Exactly. Prices ARE still spectacular, and would still be even at 50% off peak. Anyone who bought in 1980, or even before 2001, could say that with confidence, even if/when prices go way down.
“Is that it?? No more discussion?? BHO???? cornerbodega, we haven’t heard anything insightful from you lately.???? Did you get shut down for overpricing the milk???”
Nope Assnut, people get tired of auguring with Retards….
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Well, I hope my comment will suffice Dave-in-Bed,
I for one have to say, I’m still floored by the prices everything seems to be selling for.
A girlfriend of mine and her husband recently sold their house they bought in 1980…need I say more?
For those of us who remember “back when”, the prices these days are still spectacular. We would never have dreamed of it!
I guess that makes me “Team Bull” although I started “Team Princess” for BRgirl and Nokilissa I think it was…anyway, Team Princess died right out of the gate.
Thanks!