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
My husband and I saw the 12 Street house last weekend. The ‘renovation’ is a mess — in terms of ‘intention’ and shoddy workmanship– it’s sad.
I don’t think you’re crazy, I think the 10th street house is realistically priced unlike mny of the properies I have seen on this blog, if there is a bidding war the price will adjust up. If not, it will sell quickly. That’s the way to do it.
It’s my house…I’ll blow out whatever walls/partions etc. I want…as to why – I don’t want to live in a loft building I want to live in a house…and last I checked there aren’t too many “loft houses” around except some converted stand-alone commercial spaces in neighborhoods I don’t want to live in…
if you don’t want to do it and live in tiny little warren rooms like its 1860 – fine; but this whole “it’s sad” thing is, well, just sad…
Am I crazy, or does the 10 St. Place seem like a great deal? Terrifice house, good location, and under $2 million with no rental to worry about?
3:25, you know what I’m talking about, the loft thing. People buy lovely houses and hire architects to blow out the partitions and rear facade and turn the space into a pseudo-loft.
Sad.
I, too, am intrigued by the Willow Place house, especially considering that the recent one featured on Brownstoner, in far, far worse condition according to the consensus, sold for over 3 mil. As this has been on the market for months and months, can anyone shed any light as to why? Also, re 3:03’s comment: I couldn’t agree more: why buy a period townhouse if what you really want is a state-of-the-art loft? I think it’s sacrilege to destroy history in favour of a short-lived trend.
You can’t beat the Park Slope house.
It is a gem. Very low taxes too.
To Anon 2:36, this is a different property – 39 Willow Place spawned the earlier thread at http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/04/house_of_the_da_298.php.
The willow street house is an early house. Brooklyn Heights contains many houses that pre-date the brownstone era. These 1840’s houses are not as deep as the later houses, probably because it was still the candle and whale oil period and they needed as much light as possible in the house. But I think they are among the nicest city houses built in the USA. They are plain compared to the later “Italianate” style houses. Although this one has great pilasters and a pretty ceiling in the parlor. Three million plus dollars is a lot of money though. I hope the lucky banker or corporate lawyer who buys it will not hire a hot-shot architect who will rip to shreds so as to make it more cool. A trend I see happening among the new, very rich, arrivals in the Heights.