Open House Picks
Park Slope 451 6th Street Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $2,829,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Park South 169 Westminster Road Archive! Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 1-3 $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 238 Gates Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 96 St. James Place Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
451 6th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$2,829,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Park South
169 Westminster Road Archive!
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 1-3
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
238 Gates Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-3
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
96 St. James Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
I’ve been in the sister house next door to the St James house and think the layout is charming and inventive — a better flow of space than a classic brownstone, which is what I live in. I admire the townhouses in our neighborhood that were built 10 to 15 years after the wave of brownstones because it shows a progression in thinking about the use of space and light. I hope someone with vision and resources is able to buy this place — it has good bones and could be quite special with tlc. The location within Clinton Hill is also good.
I’ve seen another of these houses on that St. James block. Definitely a lot of wasted space, but charming in its own way. It’s basically a split level — about six or seven levels in all! Essentially one largish room per floor. This one needs lots of work, probably more than the pictures would indicate. It was in the same family for decades and they did nothing to upgrade it. A nice project for someone with the bucks, but man … I can’t believe we’re still in the days of the $1,000,000+ fixer-upper in a marginal neighborhood!
3:54, Why do you take offense to calling a house a flip when you clearly don’t know that it was not purchased for that purpose. You came up with a lot of assumptions (i.e. watches too much HGTV, unfamiliar with real estate terminology) about the poster who called it a flip and your assumptions may not be true either.
3:54, Why do you take offense to calling a house a flip when you clearly don’t know that it was not purchased for that purpose. You came up with a lot of assumptions (i.e. watches too much HGTV, unfamiliar with real estate terminology) about the poster who called it a flip and your assumptions may not be true either.
I don’t see why Westminister Road is being called a “flip” by someone above. Asking for $100K more than purchase a year ago barely lets you break even between closing costs and realtor fees. Plus there are no cosmetic flipper-style renovations done on the place. It just seems to be somebody who needs to sell. Transfer, divorce, changed their mind about the neighborhood or property, etc etc etc. Might even be someone new to home ownership who didn’t realize how much money and time it would entail. That’s really easy to happen.
If any of us ever needed to sell sometime sooner than planned on a house it’s pretty irritating to have someone who watches too much HGTV and doesn’t really know what “flip” means as a real estate term, to be calling it a flip.
3:10 here. The central spiral staircase plan means that as you’re walking upstairs from the parlor level, the first room you encounter is at the rear of the house – and it’s actually on a lower level than the next room, which you arrive at by continuing UP the spiral, turning toward the front of the house. So as you climb the staircase, the rear room’s floor is lower than the next room’s floor by three or four steps (look at the plan on the agent’s website). While at first blush this plan can appear airy and charming, an immense amount of interior space is wasted on the atrium (air -the central column in the staircase) as well as the staircase itself. I looked at one of these when I was house shopping years ago, and concluded that not only was the usable floorspace miniscule compared to a standard brownstone layout, but as my parents got older, visiting me would be a real chore.
Ah daveinbedstuy. Why don’t you go play with Biff and Muffy on some other thread? I wish The What would come back. He was a far more interesting troll than you are.
Holy crap! 3:45 and only 15 comments on a weekly thread that used to garner nearly 10 times as many?
I was thinking the same thing as 2:46 with regard to layout. Hmmmm. Why does the spiral make the heights different from front to back? Sounds undo-able.
The picks this week are uninspiring. I was hoping for 129 Prospect Place, which has an open house this weekend. Anyone know anything about it?