Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 391 Union Street Halstead Sunday 1-3 $2,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 66 Midwood Street Corcoran Sunday 12-1:30 $1,400,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 619 Greenwood Avenue Warren Lewis Sunday 12-2 $985,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 305 Stuyvesant Avenue Corcoran Sunday 2-3 $695,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
391 Union Street
Halstead
Sunday 1-3
$2,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
66 Midwood Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,400,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
619 Greenwood Avenue
Warren Lewis
Sunday 12-2
$985,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
305 Stuyvesant Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2-3
$695,000
GMAP P*Shark
The Midwood street house is prime Lefferts Manor, in the nicest row of houses on the nicest block. It’s the same row that includes the house that broke the area record for selling at 1.6M in the summer. Based on the floorplan and description it seems clear that this house has been at least mildly messed up and needs a good renovation.
Comparing it to the 1.6M house on Midwood, which I saw and which was stunningly renovated top-to-bottom, I would say this needs at least 300K-400K to get into the same shape as that house. So the price should be 1.2 max to account for the pain and cost of renovation–and that’s if you think the market is as strong as it was in the summer.
Comparing it to the Rutland house, which I saw and is still on the market, I’d agree that that is a better deal. Though that needs some work too and I think is also overpriced quite a bit for the current market. Also the Rutland block is nowhere as pleasant as Midwood.
305 Stuyvesant Avenue is goimg to sell for over the asking price.
Where is The What? We want The What!!
66 Midwood is part of one of the nicest rows in Lefferts Manor. It’s also quite large (at least for a single family house. That being said, I agree with ‘rjlovie’ about the wall paper (which is sort of, but not quite, Victorian, but I can’t see getting hung up on something most any buyer would be likely to change.
I have a framed c. 1900 ad for this row of houses, as well as my own more modest row on the next block of Midwood Street. My 1899 three story is nice enough and I love it, but I’ve always had a thing for the bigger and fancier 1898 four stories on Midwood I. After all, they cost $11,000n when new,as opposed to my ‘budget’ $7,500 house.
Is the $1.4 million price justified? Hard for me to say, but it is IMO one of the finest LM houses.
I saw the Whats post at the bottom of the Bloomberg Budget gap article earlier today.
Back to the PLG/Midwood house, when I compare that house to the 11/8 HOTD a block away on Rutland:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/11/house_of_the_da_404.php
I’d much rather pay $1.45m for the house on Rutland. It makes the Midwood house seem way overpriced.
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Mr B. is The What.
Organizing Search Party for the What
OK boys & girls, I’m starting to get real worried about the What. He hasn’t posted in days and the market is tanking. Some say maybe he’s busy at work, but he has no job. Others have said, maybe a family vacation, but he has no family. Let’s face it, the only thing this loser has going for him are his hillarious malapropisms his and mixed-up profanity.
So this is the plan. We are going to rendezvous at Mr. B’s house in Clinton Hill. After the appropriate refreshments and arguments about Park Slope v. Cobble Hill, we’re going to split up into three search parties. The first will be composed of strong men who can lift the big rocks he might be living under in Prospect Park. The second party will explore the caves. Finally, we’ll need a aquatic party to look in the Gowanus.
We gotta find him. The conversation has been entirely too civilized and on point of late. Totally boring.
Hey Mr. B., you gotta unblock his screenname, there have been too many imposters of late. I think people have come to appreciate him.