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!
http://curbed.com/archives/2007/12/07/full_novo_park_slope_splendor_finally_revealed.php
2:39, I’ve been looking and checked out PLG. Prices last year and before seemed reasonable for the park and train access, but the area has some big negatives. I hate the idea of not being able to put in a rental if I want. There are also limited services in the area. The worst part though was the feeling of segregation – the whites live in these cute little houses on the ‘residential’ streets and the blacks live in the rental (subsidized?) apartment buildings on the busy border roads.
Just to show you how wrong people are on this site, this is a comment (one of MANY MANY) on August 21st of the 86 Garfield Place home that just sold for 2.08 million. Mr. Joist, where are you now??
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This is a modest house, no way it sells above $2 million. Go to Zillow and look at the 5 recent comps on 2nd street between 5th and 6th avenues (most in the $1.4 to $1.6 range).
Yes, deeper building and renovation and details may explain the difference but that is a big price for that type/width of building in that part of the Slope (not a park block, etc.).
BTW, I love 5th Ave … IMO, so much better than 7th!
Posted by: Mr Joist at August 21, 2007 3:00 PM
2:39,
I’ve been very happy there for the last 33 years. I will not go into detail, since I’ve posted so much about PLG in the last couple of years, but the Lefferts Manor Association and Across the Park websites are good starting points:
http://www.leffertsmanor.org/
http://acrossthepark.typepad.com/
The Park Slope people are the worst: condo prices throughout the borough are falling, houses in marginal neighborhoods sinking fast, everything is contaminated…but not our precious PS ‘homes’. You’re gonna feel it like everyone else. You will.
I’m assuming you are being sarcastic, 2:33.
They ARE homes.
I know 75% of people on here look at them as an ATM, but I don’t see how referring to them as homes is pretentious.
I think the opposite.
2:40. Believe you on the three couples. Any more anecdotal details you can share with us? (equity size they were trying for, income/loan size, credit score range?)
I know three couples that have excellent credit and good incomes but were denied jumbo mortgages. Sellers take note. Don’t be so greedy, and accept a good offer if it comes your way. Don’t play chicken.
Not being that familiar with the neighborhood, does anyone have anything substantive to say about PLG? Is it really that bad? The Maple Street house looks to be really overpriced, but at $900K to $1M it would be pretty attractive. Sure, you have to see beyond the hideous interior, but the house looks like it has potential at a much lower price point.