Open House Picks
Brooklyn Heights 12 Willow Place Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $3,600,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 503 10th Street Warren Lewis (#5948) Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,920,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 305 12th Street Coldwell Banker Sunday 1-4 $1,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 319 Decatur Street Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage Sunday 11-12:30 $725,000 GMAP P*Shark
Brooklyn Heights
12 Willow Place
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$3,600,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
503 10th Street
Warren Lewis (#5948)
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,920,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
305 12th Street
Coldwell Banker
Sunday 1-4
$1,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
319 Decatur Street
Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage
Sunday 11-12:30
$725,000
GMAP P*Shark
1:06pm,
Single families are definitely not more desirable than two family homes, especially illegally renovated ones like 10th St., which is a legal two family. It would cost big bucks to make it legal.
Also, even if you don’t need the income, who wouldn’t want an extra apartment to use for guests? I totally disagree with you.
Look at 10th St’s floor plan. Two of the “four bedrooms” are tiny. Anybody able to afford this house will need to completely redo the top floor and the kitchen. There’s no master bedroom and master bathroom in the current setup.
Also, aside from the cool old stove, I believe the kitchen needs a complete gutt too.
Looks can be deceiving. None of the fireplaces are real, chairs fit in the “parlor,” but not a normal couch, and there’s not central AC. Personally, I’d rather buy a wider house in worse condition, than have to renovate a narrow place that doesn’t really meet my needs.
yes., but bryce canyon is beautiful as well, more beautiful than Staten Island, and just as unlikely to be of interest to readers of this site as staten island.
St. Paul’s Ave in Staten Island is beautiful– beautiful houses, hills, huge old trees, close to the harbor, beautiful views and close to the ferry. The north shore of Staten Island is really lovely and St. Paul’s ave in Stapleton gorgeous.
The 10th Street house will sell. It’s a single-family which is more desireable to the new wave of Brooklyn house buyers. But I think the house decor is too funky/eclectic/antiquey to appeal to high income buyers, have to say. Which often come from Manhattan. I personally love wallpaper, but not with dark woodwork. Wallpaper is too “granny” with dark woodwork. And there’s an odd mix of some woodwork painted white, and some dark stained wood that gives an overall impression of of jumble and clutter. Not a “clean” cohesive design scheme showing specific choices going one way or another. It wouldn’t keep the house from selling, but it would reduce the number of offers. Which means maybe the seller misses out on getting the best price possible. I love the vintage kitchen though, must say. I had a refurbished 1940’s white porcelain and chrome gas range in CA and loved it. I miss that thing! I’d rather go buy refurbished or repro vintage stoves any day, instead of stainless steel which has become so boring. We got steel appliances for our current house because the kitchen was too small for larger scale vintage appliances. Here’s what I’ll buy next time, because these new repro ones would fit in standard cabinet openings for appliances:
http://www.elmirastoveworks.com/northstar.aspx
I think the 10th Street house is priced very well. Would love to hear what people who have seen it think… Wish I hadn’t just bought my house else I would be all over this like a cheap suit. Let us know first hand what it’s like… maybe the photos are deceptive.
People post all the time on this site, “where oh where can I buy a house that’s more affordable?” And then when a seller (or neighbor of a seller hoping to see the comps go up in the area) posts an ad for a house you jump all over him! How nice. I just think there are more posters on the site from other boroughs now, because of the press the site has received recently. And when they see everyone is whining about Broklyn houses being too expensive, they want to share info about their neighborhood. That’s all. I’m a Brookyln homeowner by the way. Not a SI homeowner, but I do think SI is a place people should look if they want a nice house in a nice neighborhood under a million.
What’s up with the advertisement in the post on
10:17. Pretty funny. Why do they bother to post such nonsense?
I’m the guy who bitched about the long walk to the subway. I used to live _ON_ that block in a beat-up R/S apt, and I still live nearby. I’ve been in THAT house, and I know that you can see 360 Furman, the BQE, and a lot of the columbia pl apt buildings.
The kitchen in this house is small, the rooms are small, the neighborhood (particularly the back) is loud, there are no stores for blocks (except for the crappy bodega by the laundry), and it is a long uphill walk to boro hall. The area is nice, but not 3.6 MM nice — for less money, you could get a place on Clinton or Henry.
It isn’t that much bigger than the one that was 1.7 on the same blcok earlier this year.
Bob,
Thanks for the kind words about your experience with Mud Lane Historic District. We have some of the most
beautiful preserved victorians around!
All on large plots (and some are even street to street properties!)many with incredible views of the Verrazano Bridge and NYC Harbor. (We can see the Williamsburg Bank from our third floor)
I couldn’t stomach the prices in Ditmas Park, but loved the houses! Here
I got a lot more house with all original details, waterviews and 59×120 plot for $183/SF. We are selling, cuz we have our eye on another beauty in the neighborhood!
http://www.344stpaulsave.com/