Open House Picks: Apartments
Park Slope 70 8th Avenue, #401 3 BR Condo Heights Berkeley Sat 12-2, Sun 12-2 $1,649,000 GMAP Fort Greene 147 South Oxford Street, #4C/4D 4 BR Co-op Corcoran Sunday 12-1 $999,000 GMAP Dumbo 84 Front Street, #8D 1 BR Condo Brooklyn Heights RE Sun 12:30-3 $675,000 GMAP Boerum Hill 251 Pacific Street, #21 3 BR…
Park Slope
70 8th Avenue, #401
3 BR Condo
Heights Berkeley
Sat 12-2, Sun 12-2
$1,649,000 GMAP
Fort Greene
147 South Oxford Street, #4C/4D
4 BR Co-op
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1
$999,000 GMAP
Dumbo
84 Front Street, #8D
1 BR Condo
Brooklyn Heights RE
Sun 12:30-3
$675,000 GMAP
Boerum Hill
251 Pacific Street, #21
3 BR Co-op
FSBO
Sunday 1-4
$529,000 GMAP
Brooklyn Heights
30 Clinton Street, #1A
Studio Co-op
Brooklyn Bridge
Sun 12:30-2
$319,000 GMAP
I live near the S. Oxford Street building and have a few thoughts. The building is great and beautiful, a wonderful location, but there really isn’t a market for combined apts in Ft. Greene. If you have a family, you probably want a brownstone or part of one. I went to the apartment open house a few weeks back and it’s got great light, and tons of space, but the bedrooms are fairly small. If you can get the same amount of space in a brownstone for $1 million without the $1100 maintenance, I don’t see why you’d choose this apt. Frankly, if I were the developer kind, I’d buy this place and separate them into two apts, renting one out or selling it off!
Hey, 1:04pm, actually prices went up after we looked at the 3BR condos I mentioned. Before we bought our house. This was Summer ’06.
But maybe there’s a lull right now in coops in particular. There’s a different reason for that, that’s not about the overall market. It’s something we anticipated and why we wanted out of our old coop. Because of all the new condos coming on the market, ownership of a condo is more appealing than a coop to buyers now. Even when the coops are in older brownstone buildings on better blocks. Everybody has heard about the coop board experience! The word has spread.
For the person asking about 3BR condos under $1.5 million – the Novo had some 3BR’s for under a million. But it sounds like nobody is too impressed with the building. The 3BR places we saw in 2006 were new condo conversions in older, brownstone buildings. One was on 3rd St between 5th and 6th, I remember. That one was $1.2 million and that was the one where the 3rd “bedroom” was actually an open layout basement den/office/tv room. Where if you put up a wall to make a bedroom would give you a depressing windowless room. Then we saw another one between 5th and 6th for $1.3 million that was teeny tiny and we suspected it was originally a 2BR apartment just a tad bigger than the 2R coop we already owned. And they’d rearranged the layout to make 3BR with one bedroom windowless. Needless to say, we were not impressed with what we were seeing!
“Name names, 1:04pm! I’ve been looking for 3BR in PS that aren’t btwn 4th & 5th ave and not finding anything priced under $1.5M. If you (or anyone) has links – do post ’em…”
are you high? there is one on ahrlty with roof deck and two exposures between 6th and 7th ave for 7xx, and a new listing they also have again around 6th ave, center slope this time, for 9XX also with an even nicer roof deck.
Are you paid to push the market? both of the above units are spacious 3brs yet both are OVER PRICED. 1m to 1.5m is stupid in this market.
Well, now the South Oxford apartment is the number one viewed property on Corcoran. Wonder how many clicks it takes to get on that list?
Name names, 1:04pm! I’ve been looking for 3BR in PS that aren’t btwn 4th & 5th ave and not finding anything priced under $1.5M. If you (or anyone) has links – do post ’em…
“it is considered the hippest neighborhood in the world”
with that statement, Williamsburg is now officially dead. As a doornail.
I had so much trouble understand your statement until I substituted the following for “hippest”, and everything suddenly made sense:
– most underemployed, trust-funded, poseured
– formerly debatedly hip, but now ignored by everyone else in NY
only by its denizens
serious, sarcastic? from ireland?
i will give you the benefit of the doubt –
williamsburg, est of the east village over the river in brooklyn. 1st 3 stops on the L train, first 2 stops on the JMZ.
also reached by water taxi and by walking over the williamsburg bridge.
it is considered the hippest neighborhood in the world.
where is williamsburg?