Open House Picks
Fort Greene 68 Greene Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 1-4 $1,699,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 3 Sherman Street Douglas Elliman Saturday 1-3 $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark Albermarle-Kenmore Terrace 2112 Albemarle Terrace Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12:30-2:30 $845,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 292 Parkside Avenue Urban View Realty Sunday 1-4 $739,000 GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
68 Greene Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 1-4
$1,699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
3 Sherman Street
Douglas Elliman
Saturday 1-3
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
Albermarle-Kenmore Terrace
2112 Albemarle Terrace
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$845,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
292 Parkside Avenue
Urban View Realty
Sunday 1-4
$739,000
GMAP P*Shark
Sorry, Anon 8:35am and 8:29 are me, and someone posted in between. I was adding to the 8:29 remark.
Oops, I take back the above comment. Just looked at the layout of the Fort Green house and the 3rd floor is divided into 2 studios, and the 4th floor is a 3rd apartment. The duplex isn’t configured very well for family living either. I think this would take some work to get it into shape, and 1.7 is high, even if it is delivered vacant.
$1.7m is definitely the wrong price for this house. Either it needs tremendous work, or they are trying to generate a bidding war, or they have problems with their tenants like RC. Unless they are just going for a straight up bidding war it would be nice if they disclosed the problems with the house. This agency knows the value of houses in this area. They do not co-broke though so most agents around town won’t have a chance to sell it only their agents. Although perhaps they tell sellers they co-broke?? They really never let anybody show their listings.
Why is 1.7 million for a Fort Green brownstone considered “underpriced”? Why is everyone convinced there must be a rent-controlled tenant? 1.7 is alot of money, not some bargain — I’m not convinced all those 2+ million homes really sell at that price, or perhaps they are in pristine condition and this one is not (perfectly fine, but not in condition for someone who thinks nothing of shelling out 2 million for a house).
“Can we talk about something interesting now?”
Feel free; go ahead, hopefully with something that has a greater contribution than that comment.
I’m chiming in late on the John Ife comment, but I couldn’t agree more. Everyone I know who has bought a place put tons more money in renovations before they moved in, none of the stuff was really required to make the place habitable. Good for them I guess, but most of them stretched themselves tremendously to do so. Me, I’d be happy to give an old kitchen or bathroom an excellent scrubdown and build it up over the years the way I want it to be. I think this is a weird thing about our generation — I’m fairly certain our parents’ generation didn’t need the instant perfection.
I just found this article about PLG by accident (while searching for the listing Anon 8:30PM mentioned).I didn’t know you could get weekend RE section articles this early:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/realestate/13habi.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin
Sherman Street house looks underpriced compared to the house another agency had on Sherman recently. What gives? I think the other one was listed at either $1.8m or $1.9m
Th Parkside side house is featured in the Sunday Times RE for sale round-up. Got a very positive write-up and looks good. Bet the open house will be jammed.