Open House Picks
Park Slope 106 Park Place Corcoran Sunday 12:30-2:30 $2,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Carroll Gardens 304 President Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 1-3 $2,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 171 Bainbridge Street Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage Sunday 12-1 $995,000 GMAP P*Shark Brooklyn College 2777 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2:30-4 $649,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
106 Park Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$2,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
304 President Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 1-3
$2,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
171 Bainbridge Street
Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage
Sunday 12-1
$995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Brooklyn College
2777 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2:30-4
$649,000
GMAP P*Shark
Don’t fret 8:38. There will be a real estate crash eventually and the houses will be more affordable. Even rising interest rates will slow down developers significantly. It will happen. I have lived here through 2 and half of these cycles and they will keep on happening.
8:27
That is what I find so weird. I know that poor folks were never able to afford these houses and restore them, but across the country, it has been the middle class that has recognized the beauty and livability of vintage houses and made them viable for a new generation. This is ending. These properties are now so expensive that they can only be afforded by developers who will cut them up into little loftlets or turn the site into “mews”. I’m not optimistic about the future of unlandmarked brownstone Brooklyn.
Now that banks are willing to invest in areas within a thousand yards of a black family, which is good, It’s also bad, because nobody is going to want to build lovely family homes. Well, it is inevitable.
I’m sure Tokyo was once full of exquisite homes with lovely gardens. C’est la vie. Bye Bye Brownstone.
7:54 I really don’t see any softening in townhouses in prime areas of Brownstone Brooklyn. (In alphabetical order) Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Park Slope and certain areas in Fort Greene, prices are holding at the very least steady and probably still growing.
What protects us is that you can’t really build any more of these (it’s just not cost effective) and therefore it comes back to the basics of supply and demand. And prices at now $2m plus are largely already out of the reach of middle income NYC (let alone middle income America).
you know, all of us fairly young Brooklynites have to accept the fact that to folks just a little older, Brooklyn = slum.
Many of our houses had been SRO’s. So what?
Now they are family homes. It doesn’t matter what it says in inaccurate RE records.
The thing is that unfortunately the prices have gotten a little ahead of themselves I think. We are due for a modest correction. But Brooklyn is still the place to own a house if you are young and sophisticated. Older guys think that we are living in Zimbabwe or something, but its not true. It’s America. And in America the free market rules. If there is a correction it will be brief I think. The downside is that private property will no longer be affordable to middle-income Americans in Brownstone Brooklyn.
Park Slope is getting softy soft soft soft like the “brain” of 6:40.
My parents are in Florida as well. They have a Brooklyn Club where they get together and kvetch about Florida. It’s like Brownstoner in real time, without the real estate.
Love the super-wide lens photo of Park Place listing.
Park Slope is getting softy soft soft soft.
I remember when Park Slope really was diverse. It was the cat’s meow back then! The bee’s knees! Now…feh.
My parents are down in Florida. Nobody hates Florida more than me. But 5:35 is right. Miami is host to the most important contemporary art fair in America. Maybe it’s a cultural wasteland the rest of the year, but it’s THE scene during Art Basel.