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
The Bed Stuy house does look nice. I don’t know anything about the blocks in Bed Stuy to comment on location though. Also I would have removed the giant poster canopy bed placed in that one room at an angle. It makes the bedroom feel very small, and the bed is placed awkwardly right under the ceiling fan blades. I get a feeling of annoyance looking at it. They should at least take down the canopy part. Just leave the bedframe. Not that it stops a house from selling. But it can reduce number of bids, the little stuff like that.
That seems right but then it depends, dj. The first house we looked at in LM a year ago was a bigger house, 4-story, and it had a kitchen on every floor. No joke. This despite the LM covenant. It was priced well over a million b/c of the size, and it did sell.
The 2-story on Maple you mention, was that the semi-detached close to Flatbush? Because I heard from a realtor who saw it that house needed much more than cosmetic work. And the location is not even comparable. It was too close to Flatbush. Even a house that’s up a little further up towards Bedford would be much quieter but to be just two doors up from Flatbush is super noisy because of people hanging out outside the apartment building there. It’s really unfortunate for that seller, but there it is.
I really like the Bed Stuy House it looks like it has been well cared for by the owner. The Elliman photos and video tour give you a good sense of the home.
Cool! The 2nd Street House is 17.5 feet wide and squeezed into a 17 foot lot. It’s a house in another dimension.
Agree with 1:57… also, the copy of the Prospect Place listing seems to suggest that the place may be a legal 2-family.
2:09, that is true in many areas, but the main reason many people look in an area like Lefferts Manor is to get a fully renovated house for around a million–not one that needs to have extra kitchens ripped out and so on. I saw this house at the last open house and it is OK, but not worth 200K more than the 2 story on Maple, which only needs minor cosmetic touches (and which recently had its price reduced).
I second the emissions. I can’t really believe people should expect anything more than a shell for a mere 1M. Heck, I’d be ashamed if it got out that I’d spent less than 1.75M nowadays, assuming, of course, it’s in a bad school district.
Yeah, I know, but somebody’s gotta do it.
Once buyers have seen enough houses in Brooklyn they should be prepared to find excess kitchens. It’s not unusual. But perhaps now that we’re starting to see more houses for sale by the newer wave of homeowners, who have done modern renovations (as opposed to houses sold by the old-timer homeowners who have been there since the 70’s which comprised the houses on the market in previous years) buyers think they shouldn’t have to rip out excess kitchens. Buyers today even have expectations that they should get central AC with a house, even though that was unheard of up until a year or two ago. And on top of it, get these features without paying more for it. The reality is most houses you can buy for around a million will be in a condition that reflects the renovations of decades past, not the recent, very modern renovations.
prospect heights problem is that it is a duplex with two apartments above it. Both of the brokers suggestions for use require ripping out kitchens, or building new kitchens. At $2m, why would you take that on?
If you take it as-is, you’re paying $2m for a 1500 sq ft garden duplex, with rental income.