Open House Picks
Fort Greene 211 Carlton Avenue Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2:30 $2,650,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 174 14th Street FSBO Sunday 12-4 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 976 Sterling Place Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $1,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Greenwood Heights 252 20th Street FSBO Sat 1-4, Sun 1-4 $695,000 GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
211 Carlton Avenue
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2:30
$2,650,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
174 14th Street
FSBO
Sunday 12-4
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
976 Sterling Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$1,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Greenwood Heights
252 20th Street
FSBO
Sat 1-4, Sun 1-4
$695,000
GMAP P*Shark
The 20th street house is a tear down except for the fact that you would never invest in building something new on that street so near the corner. You wouldn’t want to do a complete renovation because the quality of the housing around it would ensure you were the best looking thing on the street. Never a good idea if you want your money back someday.
The country kitchen and the cartoonish do it yourself paint job might have seemed charming at one point. Now they want someone to give them 700K with the knowledge that they will live in a less than desirable neighborhood, with 7 foot ceilings (that’s what it felt like), and at least another 100K to make it livable.
This is a soft market. This building does not go for asking is my guess.
Just because there’s racial diversity in Fort Greene doesn’t automatically mean there will be foreclosures – is that what some here are suggesting? Fort Greene has always held on to a strong, middle class community of black homeowners over the years, through good and bad times economically in the neighborhood. Similar to our ‘hood, Lefferts Manor. We haven’t been seeing foreclosures here either. There was one about 3 years ago I remember.
The brownstoner post last week about a foreclosure was a home in Prospect Heights on Carlton ave. Nowhere near this one. But foreclosures are not an issue in either Prospect Heights or Fort Greene. But a 4 story house hasn’t gone for this kind of $ yet in Fort Greene. Maybe they will get it? What’s happening with that 5 story house on Carlton? Nothing has been updated on the Corcoran website. But maybe they just haven’t gotten around to it?
The “south slope” house is in Gowanus. it’s really quite simple — below 4th avenue south of Union is Gowanus.
Anonymous 4:14:
I was looking at the map linked to the ad when I observed that the house offered was indeed directly south of the Gowanus Canal and directly west of the Park. The Canal was certainly a lot closer than the Park. My reference to the rubber ruler was meant to point attention to real estate brokers’ habit of stretching the truth in their praise of the attributes of their properties.
yeah, there was a post from Brownstoner last week or so about a foreclosure on Carlton.
I thought the foreclosures were referring to carlton, which i would believe.
20th st house looks cute – the st is VERY noisy though (we live on 21st which is much quieter) – prices are all the board in this neighborhood now – townsley & gay is trying to sell a 2 story house that is a similar size on 6th btw 21 and 22 for 1.2 million – ha ha – they advertise the “bucolic” setting which is across from the cemetery . we own in this nabe and love it, but be real.
Regarding, Fort Greene foreclosures, in your dreams, troll. There is nothing on the market – foreclosure or non.