Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 338 Clinton Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1:30-3 $2,700,000 Price Cut! GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 136 Lafayette Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $2,350,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 258 13th Street Heights Berkeley Sunday 12-2 $1,700,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 15 Irving Place R. J. Chappell Realty Sunday 12-2 $939,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
338 Clinton Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1:30-3
$2,700,000 Price Cut!
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
136 Lafayette Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$2,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
258 13th Street
Heights Berkeley
Sunday 12-2
$1,700,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
15 Irving Place
R. J. Chappell Realty
Sunday 12-2
$939,000
GMAP P*Shark
I’ve lived a few blocks from the 13th St house for the past 4 years, and I can tell you that this is very overpriced.
Lots of these “ugly” houses you mention south of 9th are not ugly on the inside.
They might have siding or whatnot, but that’s easily fixed. They are smaller, more modest, but in my opinion far from ugly.
They may not be as special as a brownstone, but for a city house and comparing it to other cities…are nice, sturdy, smaller homes that just need a little outside modification to bring them back to what they once looked like. I happen to love the look of the smaller wood frame or federal style homes.
They just need a little more tlc.
Here’s the thing. Some people who live in Brooklyn and have for many years don’t seem to keep up with Manhattan prices very much.
1.7 million for a 2000 square foot HOUSE with what looks like a really nice yard in Park Slope is becoming more and more desireble given that this is becoming more the norm of a nice 2 bedroom place in Manhattan.
I know it seems absurd, but it’s true.
No, one of the major selling points of the North Slope is the quality of the housing stock. Further away from the park, the stock degrades rapidly once you cross 9th Street. By the time you hit 15th street or so, it is a vast ocean of ugliness. The old townhouses are ugly and the new condos are just as bad.
The South isn’t exactly up and coming, though it has yet to reach the North Slope prices. A house on 11th Street between 7th and 8th recently closd at over 3MM, so I wouldn’t really call this an area that you want to “try to get into now.” It has some room to grow, but it’s more or less arrived people.
Finding decent brick townhouses in the South Slope is on a block to block basis. You don’t want to be within a block of the Prospect Expressway or the Gowanus Expreesway (that annoying, constant hum). Also, the housing stock pretty much deteriorates south of 15th Street (lots of aluminum siding).
Once/if they begin running the F express, you will see the South Slope become much more like the North Slope in terms if pricing.
Good time to get in now before that happens, I’d think.
The access to the 2/3 and Q in the North Slope has a lot to do with the large premium in pricing over the South. The F change will help a great deal, I’d imagine.
Opinions: Will the Lafayette 3-family sell for 2.35?
South Slope is definitely beginning to pop, but most of the housing stock is hideous crap. This townhouse looks pretty nice but it is still massively overpriced.