Open House Picks
Prospect Heights 203 Prospect Place Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,999,999 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 387 2nd Street Brooklyn Properties Sat 2-4, Sun 2-4 $1,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 201 Lincoln Road Brown Harris Stevens Sat 2-4, Sun 2-4 $1,095,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 295 Macon Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 1-3 $985,000 GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
203 Prospect Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,999,999
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
387 2nd Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sat 2-4, Sun 2-4
$1,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
201 Lincoln Road
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 2-4, Sun 2-4
$1,095,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
295 Macon Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 1-3
$985,000
GMAP P*Shark
4:22, I’m with you. I also saw the Midwood house and it looked like crap. I was sort of shocked, actually, and I don’t shock easily.
Oh! my God people, find something to do; perhaps read a book or go out and visit these houses at open houses, perhaps all of you would starting writing more accurately, rather than to just assume.
Have a good weekend all of you!
Well, I’m not sure what you mean by the bed being at an angle, but having a house that doesn’t look cared for is a turnoff to most buyers. It is simply hard to see beyond partially stripped woodwork and grungy looking rooms. a buyer needs to be able to picture themselves sitting on that deck, and when it looks neglected and empty it simply isn’t appealing.
It seems pretty short-sighted to me to pass on a house because a bed is placed at an awkward angle, or there aren’t plants on the deck or the paint job needs touching up. The bed and the plants will be gone at closing, and who moves into a new place and DOESN’T paint anyway?
Sure, it behooves a seller to stage their house well, but as a buyer that certainly isn’t what I’m looking at. I want to see a house with good bones, good flow, good mechanicals, etc. I’ll do my own painting and put my own plants on the deck, thanks.
2nd st house = 17.50
2nd st lot = 17.50
seems like it fits. look it up.
It’s the brokers who are selling the Midwood Street house that aren’t the neighborhood’s top producers, Charles.
The broker comments refer to the specific salesperson, not BHS.
4:08, I disagree with that assessment. I’ve seen both the Midwood and this Lincoln house and the Midwood seemed to be in better shape to me. Yes, it is 2/3 the size of the Lincoln, but the house is nicer and the block is better. As I said before, for my money the Lincoln is not worth 200K more. If it takes a lot of “broker skill” to sell a house at the asking price, then the asking is too high. If the market were strong, the house would have sold at the original 925K asking–which is what similar houses have sold for in the past. The Lefferts Manor market was strong in early spring, when most of the houses that had sat for a year suddenly got sold, but there has been a considerable and obvious decline in the last month.
I saw the house on Midwood. The problem there is that the owners have put no effort into helping their house show well. The paint job is poor, the floors are dull and could really use a buffing, and half completed projects turn off buyers. Put a plant or two on the deck people!
People need to make an effort, especially when they haven’t updated the kitchen or bathroom.
On top of all this, the broker doesn’t have a clue about the neighborhood.