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!
if someone buys it, it’s the right price.
This is the stupidest thing written in this thread.
If you are a buyer, you can definitely pay too much and regret it later.
People overpay for things all the time.
The buyer’s remorse sets in later.
And in yerms of real estate and cars, that remorse can last for years.
Hello 4:23 defensive seller – markets change, and that’s the variable you keep forgetting. The market has experienced an incredible rise in the last 10 years, and there is a strong sentiment among many stakeholders today (including realtors and some sellers I know who have a “get out while the getting’s good” mentality) that we may have just passed the peak. So I think insisting on what happened with Garfield is kind of pointless – that was a few months ago and things CHANGE. Again, go ahead and price your property however you want, and you’re right, if one person buys it, more power to you, but it’s a fact that some properties are lingering without price cuts. And overpriced properties draw more critique.
The upper triplex of the house on 4th St. has been for rent for months, and it is currently listed with every broker on Seventh Ave (not just Corcoran). The owner will take whichever comes first, a sale or a rental.
1:37 is right. Aiming for the moon is a seller’s perogative, but be prepared for heavy critique and debate when you price a property well over recent comps.
There aren’t any comps in Leffers Manor for a 2-story house this size in this condition that support asking $1.3 million for it. The owner of Maple Street house is an elderly woman who got promised heaven and earth by some desperate rinky dink Century 21 broker. Sad. We live in PLG in a similar size house. But ours cost under a million. If you’re looking at spending a million, you can get a studio apartment in Manhattan, or a faux-3BR in Park Slope (2 teeny bedrooms and an interior room with no windows some broker is trying to call a bedroom). I did look at those types of PS condos but was completely depressed by them. We love NYC but didn’t grow up here. We grew up in large houses. The idea of living an entire life in a 1200 square foot condo with no yard would be torture. To each his own, but that was our reasoning and we’re really happy with our choice.
“i’d like links for the park slope rentals.”
Type the address into Streeteasy. That will give you links to the rental listings.
Re: Ft. Greene Place. That is amazing. Isn’t it illegal for a broker not to disclose that there are other tenants in the apartment besides the elderly woman? So the son & grandson can live there until they die, even if they are not on the lease. People should know that in a rent-controlled or stabilized apartment, as long as you received bills and mail for at least 5 years (I think) then you are a legal tenant.
rental tenant of FG house is a rent controlled tenant.
the broker told us that she is elderly and lives alone, but has a boyfriend. the truth is that her son and grandson live there, and the son is the drug dealer of fort greene. there are at least 4 beds in that garden apartment. so glad (for the purchasers) that the deal fell through. everyone needs to know the story on this house. they will definitely outlive the owner of this house.
Wow, 10:22am and 11:20pm from last night seem to be the same person – probably an owner of one of these houses. You need to get a thicker skin. We are owners now of a lovely, large apt that we aim to sell to buy a house so we are both buyers and sellers and thus can see both sides of this issue (critiquing a property). When we sell, I fully expect that some people may critique the heck out of our apt, but do I care? Not really, as long as one person loves enough to buy it. But when it’s time to sell, I will be smart enough not to expect a totally unrealistic price – I think overpricing is one of the things that leads to so much critique. If something is priced more realistically, buyers understand that yes it may be narrow, not the greatest street, whatever, and the price reflects that. Some sellers in this market really have simply gotten too greedy and then act incredibly indignant when buyers are more selective and have a frank discussion of a house’s cons (and pros) for the price point established.