Last Week's Biggest Sales
We’d be surprised if the Slope manse on Montgomery doesn’t end up being one of the top-5 sales in the neighborhood this year. How ’bout that markup on the Carroll Gardens house? 1. PARK SLOPE $3,300,000 52 Montgomery Place GMAP (left) 5,238-square-foot nine-bedroom first hit the market last April (HOTD, listed at $3,675,000); price subsequently…
We’d be surprised if the Slope manse on Montgomery doesn’t end up being one of the top-5 sales in the neighborhood this year. How ’bout that markup on the Carroll Gardens house?
1. PARK SLOPE $3,300,000
52 Montgomery Place GMAP (left)
5,238-square-foot nine-bedroom first hit the market last April (HOTD, listed at $3,675,000); price subsequently chopped to $3,300,000, and there she went. Deed recorded 3/4.
2. PARK SLOPE $2,195,000
40 St. Marks Avenue GMAP (right)
The sellers here hit the sweet spot, asking-wise. The brownstone between 5th and 6th aves. was purchased by them for $900,000 in 2003. Deed recorded 3/5.
3. MANHATTAN BEACH $1,850,000
282 Beaumont Street GMAP
2,896-sf, 2-family house built circa 1925. Listing MIA. Deed recorded 3/5.
4. PARK SLOPE $1,752,000
393 5th Street GMAP
Another one between 5th and 6th aves, this time in Center Slope. Was it listed? 3,012-sf 3-fam house. Deed recorded 3/4.
5. CARROLL GARDENS $1,670,000
29 2nd Street GMAP
Interesting: This one appears to have gone for a pretty penny over ask. StreetEasy shows the 3-fam townhouse listed in October for $1.5 mil. Deed recorded 3/3.
LOSERS!!!!!
House goes for $170k more in Carroll Gardens and nobody says a word. What happened to all the CG bashing?
Ummm ok but all the people that live in Carroll Gardens take the subway that is called “Carroll st” not Smith and 9th that subway is near Lowes and not that far from you guessed it 4th ave and 9th street that is Guess what Park slope. OHHHH. Anyway i would say the “f” train is fine from Carroll Gardens not from Park slope. Also i think Carroll Gardens is prefered by those that would live in a little bit of a more laid back area. Plus i think there is more value in CG. Why does the Park slope people worry so much about other nabes?
At least we aren’t drinkin the Goombah-aid in Carroll Gardens, 5:56.
There are wonderful blocks in the south slope but there are a lot of horrible blocks that look like williamsburg/queens and feel really desolate. this is where the PS houses are located that are close to a million. If you think those streets are a better location than the lovely blocks between smith and the gowanus (I’m talking about the carroll gardens area, not the streets across from the projects)which are quiet, safe as the suburbs,and filled with pretty brick homes, then you are really drinking the Park Slope kool-aid.
Houses in so-called CG that are near Gowanus are in the flood zone. Houses in the South Slope are near the highest point in Brooklyn. Next hurricane, you’ll realize why the South Slope was a better value.
Let’s meet back here in the year 2070 when Bed Stuy wins top 10 hood!
Oh wait…we’ll all be dead.
“if you look nearer the gowanus (lovely blocks)”
You mean next to Wyckoff Gardens and Gowanus Houses? Yeah, those are ok houses, but there is also a reason they are a million and not 3. That’s also called Boreum Hill. Anyone can tell you that houses in Park Slope are far prettier than CG. Most in CG have had the details ripped off the outside.
And they are closing the F train station at Smith and 9th for at least a year.
Not great news.
There are actually lots of houses in CG for close to one million – if you look nearer the gowanus (lovely blocks) or on the other side of the bqe. when you compare those locations to fringe south slope which is where similarly priced houses are in park slope, the houses in cg are a much better deal.
not sure why people pretend that the train service to carroll gardens/cobble hill is so bad – the f train is really fast when you’re only four stops fromm manhattan – it’s when you take it all the way to park slope that it feels slow.. also the two stops and cross platform transfer to the blue line makes it feel you are serviced by that line as well.
that being said, no neighborhood is immune to this downturn. but houses in good school districts I would say are the safest investment since they’ll be easy to rent.