Open House Picks: Houses
Cobble Hill 31 Cheever Place Brownstone RE Sunday 11:30-1:30 $1,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 357 7th Street Rita Knox Sunday 1-2 $1,700,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 572A 17th Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-2 $1,490,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 464 Macon Street Corcoran Sunday 1-2 $869,000 GMAP P*Shark Tune in tomorrow morning for Open House Picks:…
Cobble Hill
31 Cheever Place
Brownstone RE
Sunday 11:30-1:30
$1,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
357 7th Street
Rita Knox
Sunday 1-2
$1,700,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
572A 17th Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-2
$1,490,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
464 Macon Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-2
$869,000
GMAP P*Shark
Tune in tomorrow morning for Open House Picks: Apartments
We have that size house but a little wider, 9:48, and it’s perfect for a one-family. I’d never want to pay to heat anything bigger than this. Especially with the crisis in the economy and energy that’s only going to get worse. Plus English basements are fine. We love ours. However, we paid under a million for our house a year ago and I agree, the idea of paying $500,000 more than what we paid for house, I wouldn’t do it. The whole point of a small house is to be economical. A small one-family house is basically a condo-alternative, and for $1.5 million you can get a 3BR condo in Park Slope. Look at it that way.
We found a house on MacDonough between patchen and ralph for 415k by asking around. We have done some major renovations conversion from a 1 to 3 family,extension, cellar digout and finish. It was a challenging renovation but well worth it the house just appraised at 900k. We have small children but are right down the street from the new boys charter school which we are already working on getting them in for K. We were fortunate to find a school in Clinton Hill that buses the kids in and out for Prek, so things have worked out REally well in Bed Stuy if I might say:)
Windsor Terrace house looks cramped and dark. They should have at least art directed better to remove the clutter. Why on earth would someone pay so much for a relatively small (2 stories, since english basement, is just that – a basement) unappealing house? WT has much better houses than this, and this is very high for that area.
Re: 7th Street – I agree with everyone who finds it way overpriced. The pictures look very 1970s, and the exterior of the house, which I’ve seen (I live in PS), is unappealing. There are houses in this area that have sold in the last year for way less that had much more potential, on better blocks. The legal shenanigans are the kicker – really, they should be asking more like 1.3 for this, tops (and even that seems high to me).
“Is there a way that you could level the individual floors while the house itself still has some lean to it?”
Sure, if you take the floor out and start with the beams. The staircase would probably also have to be rebuilt at the same time though.
For those looking for a cheaper alternative, there’s a nice looking FSBO on craigslist with an open house Saturday. The pics look good and for that price, how can you lose?
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/rfs/473486384.html
park slope house looks the most interesting to me.
I love it when people want to sell their house, but have requests such as “June closing preferred.” On top of the fact that you must deal with the headache of legalizing and completing an illegal extension, they’d like you to close in June. The price is high for a small woodie with an illegal extension surrounded by ugly neighbors. The President street brownstone listed by BHS at $1.89 is a better bang for your buck, and a better location. And you could probably negotiate that price since it hasn’t moved yet and they keep hosting open houses for it. I bet you could get it for the price of this unremarkable woodie.
7th Street is a good location, but that’s an ugly house in the middle of a slew of ugly houses. Way too much for what it is.