This Weekend's Open House Picks
Park Slope 146 Sterling Place Douglas Elliman Sunday 12:30-2 $2,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 76 South Elliott Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $2,795,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 135 Saint Felix Street Corcoran Sunday 1-4 $1,699,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 522 Madison Street Corcoran Sunday 10-11 $624,960 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
146 Sterling Place
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12:30-2
$2,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
76 South Elliott Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$2,795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
135 Saint Felix Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-4
$1,699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
522 Madison Street
Corcoran
Sunday 10-11
$624,960
GMAP P*Shark
They built too many houses in the suburbs that at the time appealed to the greedy showoffs in giant SUV’s who wanted huge oversized mcmansions and now those places are impossible to heat or cool with the rising costs. 3pm talks about this. The new trend is to downsize and move to the city. Interestingly, retirees are doing this all over the country too, choosing apartments in fun urban settings close to culture so they can maintain an active lifestyle.
Even if you do stay in the suburbs the trend is to buy a smaller older house inside a town with good amenities, a house that is more sustainable and you can walk to school or to shop. More and more nobody wants a big house in an unfriendly isolated subdivision and those things aren’t selling to anybody.
I don’t know anyone who feels strongly about their life in the suburbs like people who live in a city.
They are just there.
I strive for a little more than that in life.
For the people who like to settle, there is Montclair.
2:53, Your rant on the suburbs is totally insane. I visit friends in the suburbs and they have friends and neighbors over all the time. They have play groups for the kids, neighborhood association potlucks, and just casual drop-in visits. If anything my suburban friends are much more socially active than I or my city friends are. I don’t know what burbs your friends live in, but your bleak picture bears no resemblance whatsoever to the suburban life I have seen plenty of.
“The fact you’ve never heard this topic discussed before shows you have no clue what you’re talking about.”
I’m very well aware of the topic. I asked for numbers. I see the zombies have gotten to you already.
you are dellusional, 3:09.
sales in the city have been just fine.
you do know that 2007 set another record, right?
sales are still way above what they were pre 2001.
you are what, 19?
I don’t think anyone is more desperate than a broker in the city right now.
I’m so glad prices in Park Slope keep going up.
The addition of about 10 new restaurants and shops in the last and upcoming month does not seem to signal the end of the world here.
Just so you all know, THE WHAT is a broker in the suburbs, which is why he is constantly sounding th alarm bells so that people will stop buying in Brooklyn and move to the suburbs.
He has admitted being a broker, and he defended the suburbs last week and continually calls for the end of civilization on a daily basis.
Know why??
Cause brokers in the burbs are even more desperate than the ones in City.
Isn’t that right, the What???
I don’t know how prices will trend in Brooklyn over the next year, but I would not be surprised if they drop 17 to 20 percent.
That seems a plausible scenario. Of course it could be worse if most folks who like Brooklyn are already here or if there are urban riots again etc.
Who knows?