Open House Picks: Houses
Carroll Gardens 98 3rd Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:30-4:30 $2,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 360A 5th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,875,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 111 Clifton Place Corcoran Sunday 12-1 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Kensington 301 Caton Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 1-3 $889,000 GMAP P*Shark Tune in tomorrow morning for Open House Picks:…
Carroll Gardens
98 3rd Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$2,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
360A 5th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,875,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
111 Clifton Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Kensington
301 Caton Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 1-3
$889,000
GMAP P*Shark
Tune in tomorrow morning for Open House Picks: Apartments
I am noticing a fair number of houses coming on the market in Park Slope/South Slope, which are very small and in the less desirable areas, but which are still priced very high, as if the market has continued to go up at a rate of 20% a year or even more. I think the 5th st house, while it certainly looks cute, is one example of this. Someone paying that kind of money for a house has a lot of choice about what they buy, right now. If you want a good school, you will probably want to buy in 321, and you certainly can for that price. If you want a very nice house but don’t care about the school district, you have many options for this kind of $$$s. We are looking to buy, but I wouldn’t even look at this at this sort of price level.
Thanks for checking out the school district issue, 2:45.
I agree–having the dog in every picutre of the Kensington house is a little creepy.
LOVE the Park Slope house.
Definitely going to take a look Sunday.
Re: 5th Street house – I also find this a shocking price – I mean, come on – for a 15 footer? A friend went to the open house and said they did a great job with their basement (turning it into rec/guest room with small bathroom w/shower) so I suppose they’re considering that it’s 4 usable floors but frankly, you could buy a much cheaper house and pay yourself to fix up the basement which certainly is not *that* expensive to do. As for the “wrong” side of the street comment, I don’t necessarily agree with that – PS39 is a school that’s up and coming – but I think the main problem with their ask is simply that it’s too small a house. Other houses of that size have sold pretty recently for significantly less – and even if they needed a lot of work, it would still have been much cheaper than this house, and you would have been able to renovate exactly as you wish, instead of inheriting the current owner’s taste (which is OK, but not so great as to merit this extremely aggressive price). This house is way overpriced
2:32: The BHS house on President is zoned for PS 282, not 321. Only the south side of that block of President is zoned for 321. (I doublechecked by calling 311.) It also looks nice, though.
(By the way, I have nothing against PS 282, and my child goes to PS 39, which the 5th Street house is zoned for–but as a practical matter, the 321 zone does affect the price, so it’s relevant.)
none of these are appealing….
5th Street house is 15 feet wide! Come on. There are actually quite a new few and wider Park Slope houses priced less than this one–search NY Times for all new PS listings and you’ll see them. If you are going to spend $1.875, you’re better off the the new President Street listing, 17 feet wide, in 321, 1-family, nice reno (BHS listing).
5th street is nice and well done but it’s still only 15X50 and not on the right side of the street when it comes to school (i.e. 321) so to me the $1.875 is a little bit too much