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
Two of the most committed, longtime homeowners in PLG are BHS brokers, including the broker who has the Lincoln Rd house who has sold plenty plenty houses in PLG.
What, 4:08? BHS has all the top, record-breaking sales in the neighborhood. They also get the majority of listings in the nabe. Everybody in PLG who follows this stuff knows it. Look it up, the stats are available to the public. I’m not a broker, but my broker last year was with BHS and we’ll use them again.
Jeez, what a completely transparent post by a bitter competitor.
DJ – prices have been strong in PLG this spring. BHS’s Midwood St. house is 2/3 the size of the Lincoln Road house and needs much more work. Also, it’s being sold by BHS agents who don’t usually sell in the neighborhood. That price decrease represents lack of broker skill.
Fully agree with Antoine. Why are people so afraid of removing a kitchen? Ever held a hammer in hand?
If you want new wood floors to replace the linoleum, remove the drop ceiling and restore the ceiling, etc., then you are talking about typcial remodeling costs but removing a third kitchen if necessary to satisfy the appraiser or eliminate dangerous toys for the kids is simple and not expensive.
When buying, word the contract to require the removal of the kitchen at owner’s expense if required by appraiser.
It’s not a stupid comment, 3:30pm. Where have you been? There are entire businesses that have been formed in recent years, and TV shows devoted solely to how to present your house in its best light to buyers. Plus it’s a slower market as everyone knows. Who on earth says “no” to advice telling them to present their house better? It’s not that the house won’t sell to nobody if you don’t do the work, but you most definitely can get fewer people looking at the house thus fewer offers. Which is what I said, not no offers but fewer offers. Read posts more carefully before you insult people and call them stupid. THAT’s stupid, frankly.
Lastly, that bed has nothing to do with taste. It’s too dang big for that bedroom, period. You saying on Brownstoner the bedroom is large – how will people know that who haven’t read this thread? Buyers get very little time to look at open houses on a Sunday. Many open houses are at the same time of the day. They narrow their choices based on the photos in the listing. Trust me, I’ve been there, we just bought a house. We never managed to get to more than 3 open houses on a Sunday.
Regarding kitchen removals. It is a great deal easier to remove a kitchen than to put one in. From personal experience.
To remove an extra kitchen simply requires some demolition and clean up. followed by drywall and floor patching. Gas and water hookups are simply closed off behind the new wall. You could probably pay some guys $500 for the demo. Another crew $500 for the clean up and waste removal. And a third crew about one thousand for drywall, patching and some floor work. And no, these are not underestimated prices. They are real market prices. For more expensive tastes the prices increase accordingly for anything like molding, ceiling work or new lighting. But not that much more. considering the price of the houses involved. An extra kitchen that needs to be demo’d should not be a dealbreaker by any stretch, simply a minor inconveninece.
3:10, no I meant Midwood, not Maple. Sorry! I was referring to the 2 story brownstone on the second block of Midwood, which was reduced to 899K (same realtor). I also saw the Maple street one you’re talking about, which sold for around 725K and was indeed far too close to Flatbush. I have a strict 10 houses from Flatbush rule when it comes to PLG. As for this one, honestly it seems to be me that prices are down from a year ago in Lefferts Manor/PLG and that this one is just overpriced for the current market. I bet it’ll sit for awhile. But you never do know.
This is a very large bedroom; everyone has to ALWAYS bring their own taste to a home. To the person who does not like canopy for whatever reason, then that is your problem… (Add your own taste). In the mean while, I do not know of anyone who will bid on a house based on the picture and a piece of furniture that will be removed from the house. How stupid is that comment?
“I agreed that the seller needs a lot of buyer traffic in order to find someone to bite,”
Unfortunately, they won’t get that from the Brooklyn Properties website.