Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 185 Huntington Street Vita Realty Sunday 12-2 $1,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 109 Marlborough Road Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,250,000 GMAP P*Shark Lefferts Manor 258 Lincoln Road Brown Harris Stevens Sat 12:30-2:30, Sun 12-1:30 $1,150,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 195A 8th Street Orrichio Anderson Sat 12-2:30, Sun 12-2:30 $1,095,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
185 Huntington Street
Vita Realty
Sunday 12-2
$1,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
109 Marlborough Road
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Lefferts Manor
258 Lincoln Road
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 12:30-2:30, Sun 12-1:30
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
195A 8th Street
Orrichio Anderson
Sat 12-2:30, Sun 12-2:30
$1,095,000
GMAP P*Shark
The wallpaper and linoleum patterns in the Ditmas house are AWESOMELY bad–kinda like the suits Herb Tarleck wore on “WKRP in Cincinnatti” (I can’t believe I just made a cultural reference to that show–bygones.) Also, mainly for refusing to co-broke (couldn’t agree more, Jimmy) Aguayo and Heubner sucks ass.
Anon 8:00,
I actually disagree with you. From the small sampling of photos here, it looks like most of the detail has been removed. It’s a long way from the beauty on East 17th St.
Anon 2:31: You’re right about Gowanus–that is the name of the joint. Not that there’s anything wrong with “newbies,” per se–for one thing, they rarely submit knowitall posts… Also, “Boerem Hill” was coined by gentrifiers in the 60s or 70s or some such (there was a Boerem family, but you notice there ain’t no hill), and, until then, was *also* Gowanus.
Jimmy, only little local brokers don’t share their listings — the larger firms such as Corcoran, Brown Harris Stevens, Halstead, etc., are all members of REBNY (as is my company), which REQUIRES its members to share their exclusives. And those firms don’t usually have such great listings either — someone earlier called it right — “downmarket” companies like Filmore or even smaller firms. An excpetion may be old-line niche companies like Aguyo and Huebner – they’ve been around forever, have allthe connections, and so still get good listings, which they (infuriatingly) don’t co-broke. But even their days are numbered as they lose market share to the big guys.
So when I say there’s little inventory out there, this is based on a survey of everything available for co-broke, which, increasingly, is most of the market.
The house in Prospect Park West (Ditmas Park?) needs work! This house could look like the house on E 19th that sold for 1.9 if you reno and decorate right. It looks like the bones are there under all of that white paint and ugly wallpaper.
The Lincoln Road house has generated some interest on our local “Across the Park” blog, although less than I expected:
http://acrossthepark.typepad.com/atp/2007/06/258_lincoln_rd_.html
I was considering buying a very similar gowanus house to the one listed that was on 12th off of 4th (thank god I didn’t, since it was right next to that enormous building that’s been going up on the corner for a couple years). Anyway, that was 2.5 years ago and it was listed at 850k, so just to point out that prices are going up in gowanus, just like everywhere else. I think 1.1 is probably not a bad deal for this house.
There are still houses in Kensington and parkville below a million but they go very fast! And PLG for over a million? I thought it was affordable on that end? To pay a million and live near all that section 8 no thanks!
That Ditmas/PPS pricing is very aggressive. I paid just a tiny bit more than that 6 months ago for a much, much nicer house.