Open House Picks
Fort Greene 16 Willoughby Avenue Corcoran Saturday 1-2 $1,969,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 216 14th Street Townsley & Gay Sunday 12-2 $1,595,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 23 Chester Court Fillmore Sunday 2-4 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 263 Bainbridge Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 1-3 $609,000 GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
16 Willoughby Avenue
Corcoran
Saturday 1-2
$1,969,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
216 14th Street
Townsley & Gay
Sunday 12-2
$1,595,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
23 Chester Court
Fillmore
Sunday 2-4
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
263 Bainbridge Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 1-3
$609,000
GMAP P*Shark
SO transparent–I love it when realtors and sellers write shit like “I’m going to check it out AT THAT PRICE!” Are you serious???
The Bed-Stuy house looks gorgeous The block is no beauty but the surrounding area is quite good. I’m going to check it out at that price!
The Chester Court Tudors are lovely and I’m tempted by them on an aesthetic level, but the truth is you couldn’t pay me to live in one. They are very cut off from their lovely PLG neighbors, hemmed in by Flatbush Avenue, Section 8 high rises and the subway cut. Location wise, it is the absolute worst PLG has to offer.
I just looked up the Chester Court house on Propertyshark. I think this property represents a good value. It is a small block that appears to be turning over. In the last two years 4 houses have sold for prices higher than the ask for this one (one may have been slightly less). These are sweet houses. I remember loving the charm when I looked at one of them a couple years ago. We ended up buying a house in the Manor, but given that the apartment buildings around this area are also getting populated with young professionals, I might have gone for one of these if I were looking now.
I remember the top floor front bedroom being large, very cool, with great ceiling slopes.
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for $1.15 mill I might be interested in that 14th St. house – looks like a nice reno, though a small house and not exactly the nicest or most convenient part of the Slope (not really in the Slope at all, some would say). At the current price it’s a joke. Someone is very greedy. And whoever said you could rent out that small 1 BR in the basement for $2K, on that block – sorry but very unlikely.
Re: Bed Stuy house:
Everything good-looking in Brooklyn seems to be near a project. All of Fort Greene is near a project. What matters is what kind of project and how close, and what the rest of the neighborhood is doing.
Yes, east of Stuyvesant is much less delightful than west of Stuyvesant. But this is really close to a really nice area, and is already renovated.
I think this compares favorably to my house, which I paid the exact same amount on.
I bought a place between the J train and the A train but closer to the J off Stuyvesant. A much, much nicer block than the Bainbridge house, notorious for community awareness and high home ownership, much easier to declare “safe.” But my house needed a complete gut–much structural damage. Both two-families, mine has much more original detail intact and is a brownstone instead of brick.
But honestly, to be so close to that gorgeous Stuyvesant/Lewis stretch of mansioney homes (and attendant amenities and slightly more useful train) in a house that didn’t require an extra 100K in renovations?
I’d definitely walk around at night and see if I couldn’t handle the project at that price.
And then I would get a good structural engineer and make as sure as I could that the renovation isn’t a cover-up job.
And then I would make a decision.
or maybe 14th Street is an example of mortgage fraud?? That makes no sense.
According to Property shark, 216 14 St in Park slope was bought by flm realty enterprises from Jean Mann and Dorothy stasik for $637,00 in 12/06. Subsequently, it was sold to Jayson Halladay for 1,150,00, nearly twice the price flm enterprises paid for merely 6 months ago. Jayson Hallady is how listing it for $1.595 a short few months afterwards. In total, from dec/06 to dec/07, 216 14 st’s value jumped by more than 250%. What am I missing here? Is this price inflation real? are these people professional flippers?