Multiple Price Cuts for Heights Houses
Not even Brooklyn Heights, the bluest chip in the borough, is proving immune to the pressures of a weakening market. Exhibit 1: Three of the lower-priced houses on the market in the area have recently had to undergo price reductions in their bids to find buyers. The most surprising of these, in our opinion, is…
Not even Brooklyn Heights, the bluest chip in the borough, is proving immune to the pressures of a weakening market. Exhibit 1: Three of the lower-priced houses on the market in the area have recently had to undergo price reductions in their bids to find buyers. The most surprising of these, in our opinion, is 72 Middagh, a 3,450-square-foot former school house with its own parking that recently underwent a pitch-perfect renovation. This one started out three months ago at $2,995,000 and was just cut to $2,895,000. The historic colonnade of 47 Willow Place was not enough to reel in a buyer at the initial asking price of $3,450,000, so after just five weeks, it too had its price trimmed to $3,200,000. These two cuts follow the unsuccessful efforts of a succession of brokers to unload the suburban-modern carriage house at 43 Love Lane. Brown Harris Stevens, Stribling and Halstead gave it a go for most of last year, starting at an original asking price of $3,500,000. Coldwell Banker took over in February at $2,995,000. With no better luck, they cut the asking price to $2,745,000 at the end of April. Where’s the bottom on this stuff?
72 Middagh Street [Corcoran] GMAP
47 Willow Place [Corcoran] GMAP
43 Love Lane [Coldwell Banker] GMAP
House of the Day: 43 Love Lane [Brownstoner]
HOTD: Love Lane Buyer, Wherefore Art Thou? [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 72 Middagh Street [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 47 Willow Place [Brownstoner]
No one seems to realize that the lack of bars/restaurants in BH is actually considered an advantage by many, as it stops all the riff raff/poseurs from invading and walking the streets to go to said restaurants and bars. Heights residents do fine with the limited choices we have. Montague Street caters mostly to the weekday lunch crowd anyway.
I lived in the Heights for 5 years and used to think the commute was covenient (I work midtown east and took the 4-5 train). Then I moved to Boerum Hill and started taking the D or N. In hindsight, the commute was hellish. I save 20+ minutes each way (that over 170 hours a year – or over 7 days) by taking the N or D trains that feels less like a cattle car. Can also use my cell phone while the train is going over the bridge.
Biff…as much as they will never admit it, all of the male commenters (even the gay ones) and probaly most of the female commenters wouldn’t pass up a chance to sleep with any of these wrinkly middle aged ladies.
But, we stray from topic…
I was expecting that there’d be more hate spewed towards 12:30’s comment; however true it actually is!!!
other than the liberal arts graduates, is there really anyone else that has this outright craze for park slope? it seems more like an extension to a college campus than a proper neighborhood.
I think these are all really nice properties that will sell quickly once the right price is reached. Brooklyn Heights is more sensitive than most areas to the ups and downs of the Financial sector. Right now, that sector is a little on edge.
Whoever redid the house on Middagh, missed the boat on the facade. They got bad advise from the staffers at the Landmarks Commission. That facade is really ugh-ugly. A shame, with a little design help it could have been gorgeous. Hopefully the next owner will have the courage to stand up to the staffers, ask for a hearing, and re-do the facade properly.
“Are you on crack? Or have you not looked at a subway map. There are several express trains taking you to canal and beyond faster than any train coming from PS. I know, I lived in both areas.”
Once you put down the pipe and look at the subway map, you will see that the N train doesn’t have to stop repeatedly in lower manhattan. It goes straight from Atlantic center to canal. That makes it faster than the A. Countless people know this and choose to live in north slope and also boerum hill/prospect heights which I also mentioned but you all choose to ignore.
Dave, Samantha wasn’t in that particular clip.
12:27, that’s funny! I’m ashamed to admit I never watched the series other than a couple of episodes. But I adore Sarah Jessica Parker. I think the movie will still be a big hit.Regarding them being wrinkly middle aged ladies, they seem to be holding it together, especially my darling Sarah, who looked to still be in fantastic shape!
Park Slope isn’t the “best” of anything in brooklyn.
BH is prettier and Williamsburg has better bars/restaurants.
Why brag about somewhere that is mediocre at both?
Yes 12:27 but you’d still have window AC units and you wouldn’t have a nice parlour deck and a backyard with birds to wake up ti in the morning!!!