Open House Picks
Park Slope 104 Lincoln Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-4 $2,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 108 Lincoln Place Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $2,800,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 57 Gates Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3 $1,379,000 GMAP P*Shark Midwood Park 718 East 18th Street Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 2-4 $1,190,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
104 Lincoln Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-4
$2,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
108 Lincoln Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$2,800,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
57 Gates Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3
$1,379,000
GMAP P*Shark
Midwood Park
718 East 18th Street
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 2-4
$1,190,000
GMAP P*Shark
Re: 108 Lincoln Place. For 2.8 Million, I’d expect better interior finshes than just sheetrocked walls with plain framed entryways. That is the cheapest looking remuddle I’ve seen on a property of that price. Yeah, they saved a couple of original doorways, so it’s not totally featureless, but, blech!
5:15…I guess I missed the defensive Ditmas Park post. Please tell me which one it it. Many thanks.
My husband and I are probably “one of those yuppie Manhattan couples” being discussed here and I can tell you my impressions of Park Slope- it is a WONDERFUL, beautiful and in many ways ideal area to live- esp. as our family grows. We are definitely potential buyers in the PS brownstone market. However, I can tell you that the “10 best neighborhoods” thing did absolutely nothing for us or friends of ours in similar positions, except to verify what we already knew. There is no way that it should really inflate prices, as it is a relatively obscure accolate (all things considered). 125th st in Harlem also got very good press but I doubt it’s being used as anything other than a marketing tactic by realtors, and has very little influence on buyers unless they are brand new to the real estate market (which lets face it- who in the greater NY really is????).
So in my opinion, a price increase of $1mm in 6 months is absolutely ludicrous unless the place has been transformed into some sort of modern paradise inside (central air, perfect finishes, etc.). We wouldn’t even consider it. If that is the asking price for brownstones in PS, we’d rather just stay in Manhattan in a smaller but still amazing property and fully functional family home (for $2.8mm).
I do agree that I don’t think PS will lose its value and places will continue to appreciate (as will Manhattan real estate). BUT that kind of totally disproportionate price increase when compared with the Manhattan market even is totally nuts in my opinion.
I’ve said it before. Nobody gets as heated and defensive as Ditmas people. They truly are the one neighborhood that never acknowledges the downsides. EVERY neighborhood has its downsides. Even Park Slope.
Care to back that up, 4:22?
“hello vanguard I would like to invest 2 million dollars from the sale of my brownstone” Thank you. God bless America.
What’s all this talk of a million here and two million there. Just check out that property on craigslist in Bed Stuy for 650K. There ‘s an open house this weekend. Looks like a no brainer to me and it’s a true Brownstone. That’s where my money would be if I could move out of my parent’s basement.
Actually, last year Park Slope was just as nice a neighborhood as it is now. And anyone looking to buy here probably knew just how nice it was – that’s why they wanted to live here.
Being on a very subjective list doesn’t actually make the neighborhood any nicer.
And if you think it brings more buyers, come on. Park Slope has been on the map as a great place to live in the NY area since the early 80’s – it isn’t like it was some secret that just got out!
Hey 2:44 and 4:25, I seriously doubt that just because a less-than-high-profile group like the American Planning Association comes out with “10 Best” list means it will make a dent in the groupthink of your average Manhattan yuppie couple. As you say, “This is NYC and press like that speaks VOLUMES” but these people already know about Park Slope from reading articles in NYT, New York magazine, etc. ad nauseum about the PS stroller set.