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
That Sterling Place house is still on the market? I remember some loser Sloper use to come on the House of The Day threads and post this house every week and talk about how this house was a much better bargain. Must be devine justice that it is still on the market.
2:42…
20% may SEEM rational to you, but it’s not what economists are predicting.
I’ll take their word over some anonymous poster on a blog, thanks.
The Upper West Side has turned into White Plains Mall.
Park Slope and other areas of Brooklyn are blessed with small retail spaces, which limit the huge retailers from coming in, keeping the community more intimate, more mom and pop and just plain, more interesting.
To me, anyway.
I moved to Park Slope after having lived on the Upper West Side for 5 years. It was a lovely place, but the last 3 years have ravaged Broadway and turned it into something I was repulsed by during my childhood in the burbs.
Can’t explain it, but the soul has been sucked off many parts of Manhattan, especially the nice parts of the UWS.
2:29 —
Why is it crazy to think that you can buy the same houses for 20% less next spring?
They appreciated at more than 20% a year for the last few years, well out of line with stagnant income and population gains. This will evenatually even out.
20% drop seems rational to me.
This site makes me laugh. The Upper West Side is boring now? And Park Slope is not? How do you reckon that? I love brooklyn too, but last time I checked there was still way more going on culturally in manhattan…it’s true that there aren’t as many Starbucks outlets in Park Slope and Cobble Hill as there are on the upper west side, but give it a couple of years and I guarantee you there won’t be much difference, except the commute.
I prefer brooklyn too, but with prices at the levels they’re at now, I don’t kid myself it’s going to stay the same.
Most of my friends in the suburbs would rather die than give up their cushy SUVs and move to subway city, especially Brooklyn which still has, believe it or not, a vulgar connotation to many.
I cannot explain the price inflation in Brooklyn over the past four years. it is just plain weird.
2:27. I’d rather be in a handful of neighborhoods in Brooklyn…Park Slope etc more than I’d rather be on the Upper West Side. It’s so freakin boring up there. Brooklyn is the city of culture moving into the next decade. You gave me 10 million bucks, and I wouldn’t move back into Manhattan.
2:24, imagine how TRAPPED you would feel if you stretched your family income to the absolute limit to buy one of the houses listed here. Or, you could take your reasonable down payment and middle income and buy your family a nice house with plenty of space and great schools nearby, in a *suburb*, and still have plenty left over to save for retirement, college for the kids, etc. Wake up. There is not an infinite supply of well-off yupster families ready to plonk down $2 or $3 million for a brownstone in Brooklyn and rent out half of it to cover the enormous mortgage, when for half that much or less they could have a far more comfortable life in the ‘burbs.
2:22, do you have a car? cuz the medison house is in the very center of the least-accessible part of the neighborhood, subway-wise. there are buses but the day they run anywhere near schedule i’ll eat my metrocard.