Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 86 Cambridge Place Archive! Corcoran Sunday 1:30-2:30 $2,590,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 272 Windsor Place Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,595,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 30 Midwood Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,475,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 401 Parkside Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-1:30 $1,250,000 GMAP P*Shark

Clinton Hill
86 Cambridge Place Archive!
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-2:30
$2,590,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
272 Windsor Place
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,595,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
30 Midwood Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,475,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
401 Parkside Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
I agree with Brenda. A house on same block of Parkside sold for $1.15M in September. Not a lot of work needed and nice rental income potential
Brenda: PLG certainly has pluses. And it certainly has minuses. No matter how much you love it, 1.2 million to live on Parkside is simply insane. 30 Midwood is lovely. But last I saw the same house in the same row (unrenovated) could not sell for 1.1M. And the larger and just as nice house on Rutland has been on the market for months and months and months at 1.45. Right or wrong, these prices are not going to fly.
renting can definitely be cheaper especialy if you buy a money pit that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars of repairs and upgrades. And that then costs a fortune to heat, cool, light, clean, furnish, and maintain.
Not only can renting be cheaper but it can be much less stressful. Of course owning and restoring an old home is a labor of love. You do it because you enjoy it. otherwise you will have a bad case of buyers remorse.
“i cannot believe that anyone thinks that renting is cheaper. it is not! no way. especially if you have a decent income.”
Show us a rent vs buy calculation that supports your point.
30 Midwood Street is gorgeous, and I like the proximity to subway, park, restaurants, etc. $1.5 million seems like a crazy amount of money anywhere for a single-family, though.
brenda:
a similar house down the street on parkside sold for $879K a little more than a year ago—these people want $400K more?
Why no love for the PLG house? Location is busy and dodgy but also fantastic access to train and Prospect Park, 5 minute bike ride to BBG and Brooklyn Museum, awesome Caribbean food nearby…and despite a rather soulless looking kitchen re-do, there’s lots of old-house goodness left, and it’s a functional 2-family. And I’m told that $1.2 mill is a bargain these days.
When people don’t put a place at market price, or close to it, they don’t really want to sell. I think they have some psychological need to be in the market, but no real need, or interest, in actually selling. They like walking around then saying that the market is bad, when it isn’t the market, but their price, that is.
Sharon Burroughs-Clarke should give it rest on that Cambridge house. It was shown to me almost two years ago at the asking price of $1.6. The seller got greedy, pulled it off the market for a week and relisted for $2.6. And they are still in the clouds with that $2.6 price.
Wake the F up!!!