Open House Picks
Park Slope 88 Prospect Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $1,950,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 205 12th Street Brooklyn Properties Sat 12-1:30, Sun 1-3 $1,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 922 Eastern Parkway Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 36 Wellington Court Madison Estates Sunday 3-5 $779,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
88 Prospect Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-3
$1,950,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
205 12th Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sat 12-1:30, Sun 1-3
$1,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
922 Eastern Parkway
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
36 Wellington Court
Madison Estates
Sunday 3-5
$779,000
GMAP P*Shark
The really good brokers will do the staging themselves, 2:52. I think too many sellers only care about commission and don’t pay attention to negotiating the rest.
If I used a broker I’d rather pay a full commission and get staging, professional photos and professional floorplan, than get NOTHING for a lower commission with some rinky dink firm.
Not that all the bigger firms offer those services, because they don’t. It’s a broker by broker thing. Wherever they’re from, just be sure to ask about the services they’ll give you – don’t only ask them the commission they’re charging. A lower commission means nothing if you can’t sell or you have to lower your price a lot more to sell.
As usual Corcoran wins the Overpriced Listing Award. Glad to see they are still singlehandedly trying to keep this bubble from bursting.
I feel sorry for anyone who bought in Crown Heights. Speculation has stopped and these people are going to be upside down for YEARS to come. I’d hate to be sitting on a white elephant in that crime infested hellhole for the next decade or more that it takes to get your investment back.
I too saw the 12th Street house. Calling it South Slope is a stretch, that’s Gowanus. It does have a certain charm to it, but it’s small, and needs major work inside. Additionally, it needs major work outside! Never mind what a real engineer would find.
Not to mention it’s in the heart of the flood zone. The house was overpriced at $1mil, whoever listed this is definitely on crack.
I was pretty hard up for a house then, but wouldn’t even bid at 999k.
PS: When I saw it, there was furniture in it, I guess the owner moved out since then.
Packing away clutter is not just for kid stuff it, all of your clutter should be packed away. All of the houses featured should be staged to sell in order to get the most money. You’d think that with the commissions that the agents earn on each sale, they’d have somebody on staff to do this.
The desertified yard with the Ditmas house doesn’t help much. How difficult is it to put away toys for a picture?
I kind of like the murals. Someone who buys the house is going to have children, so that’s OK. That someone is going to want to believe there’s a place to put the kid’s things, though.
Agreed that the Crown Heights place is way overpriced. That price might be possible in 30 years, after gentrification has had more time to clean up the neighborhood.
I thought the same thing, 2:32, the Ditmas house is insanely cluttered. Huge turnoff.
Please people, everyone – it doesn’t mean you’re bad parents if you don’t let your kids have every single one of their toys the entire time you’re trying to sell. The more money you make from selling, the better off financially your whole family will be. Financialy responsiblity is considered good parenting too.
Secondly, storage units do not cost that much. Use one. Pack up all your junk and put it in there. If you’re selling you have to pack anyway. Only keep what you’d take with you if you were going on a month-long trip somewhere. Get down to the bare necessities.
I saw the 12th st house too.
The listing says its a 20×45 building
Its not, its 20×32
FREAKIN TINY ! !
First three listings have only ONE lousy picture apiece. Hello, lazy brokers!
Ditmas house looks nice. And I’m not a kid-hater, but I have to say, I think people should paint over the murals in the children’s rooms and ditch as many of the toys as possible. That kind of clutter and primary colors is hard for a lot of people to see past. My 2 cents.