Open House Picks
Park Slope 338 4th Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 11-12:30 Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $2,195,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 14 Fort Greene Place Corcoran Sunday 11:30-12:30 $1,469,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 133 Maple Street Century 21 Sunday 12:30-2:30 $1,295,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 498 Bergen Street Corcoran Sunday 12-3 $950,000 GMAP P*Shark Two words,…
Park Slope
338 4th Street
Brooklyn Properties Sunday 11-12:30
Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3
$2,195,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
14 Fort Greene Place
Corcoran
Sunday 11:30-12:30
$1,469,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
133 Maple Street
Century 21
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$1,295,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
498 Bergen Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12-3
$950,000
GMAP P*Shark
Two words, people: Slim pickings!
3:46 and 3:53 – things change. Talk all you want about sales in the recent past, that does not mean things will continue to sell at outrageous prices in the future. I sense a defensive broker/seller lurking in this thread.
3:45- I’d probably be interested in buying your place- That’s what we’re looking for when we sell ours. We intend on staying in the slope whether the market goes up or down, because that’s where we’ve made our home and that’s where our friends are…
And you know what- once the market goes down, it will go up again at some point. In the meantime, you have to live somewhere, and it might as well be a place you like.
For what it’s worth–Corcoran just advised me that I should be selling for less then 800/square foot on a nice apt on a landmark block in the north slope (with it’s own outdoor space).
The market is where the market is. If you sell lower than you’d want, you’r probably also going to buy something cheaper than someone else wanted to sell if for. Unless you’ve put your whole nest egg into a mortgage you can’t afford, then it’s really a wash.
Mr Joist: You have some funny math going on there. The difference between 2 million and 2.08 million is $80,000, not $8,000, making it a 4% difference, not .4%. Sure .4% is irrelevant, but 4% has some standing.
I heard both Lincoln Place townhouses in Park Slope are in contract.
They are no longer listing open houses for either house. In fact, if you do a search for Park Slope townhouses on Corcoran, only TWO are showing open houses for this weekend.
The rest are most likely under contract, which in this day and age takes a little while to complete before they list it on the website…
2:56, where do you live? Do you live in an apartment? When you’re leaving work, do you say: I’m going to my apartment. Or do you say “I’m going home.”
Mr. Joist:
Last I checked, 2.08 million is $80,000 dollars above 2 million. Not 8,000.
In any case, you were dead wrong. As were 99% of the posters on that thread who said it would never sell for above 1.8 million.
Yours was just the first one I saw. Nothing personal.
Re: 3:01, 3:10 – I’m amazed. I’m an owner myself of a beautiful 3BR/2BA pre-war condo with storage and outdoor space in Center Slope (though we’re seeking to upgrade to a house) and no less than Corcoran, which prices aggressively, told me in evaluating our apt that 900/sf is a pretty high-end price, based on comps – and this was this past summer when the market was, I think, at its peak. So blithely stating 1000/sf seems a little nutty to me. I must say, I’m torn in saying this. As an owner, I of course want to sell high, but I think things are just getting immoral and ridiculous. I’d be happy to sell our home for 900/sf – where the hell people are getting 1000 sf is beyond me.
Nameless “Guest” @ 2:50pm:
This is Mr Joist. Please chill out, your bitterness meter is about to blow.
Wasn’t the 86 Garfield Place home listed at $2.3 million? I said $2 million max because the comps were at $1.5 million. So it sold for $2.08 million (I was off by $8,000). Just goes to show that it only takes one buyer. And there is no denying that it sold well-above the comps.
That said, good for them. I own nearby so I’m happy.
BTW, did you really just base your argument on a 0.4% differential?
Anyone who thinks that things must sell for what they sold for a year ago, please contact me, I have some shares of Countrywide for sale.