Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 415 Sackett Street Douglas Elliman *****CANCELLED***** $2,250,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 287 Park Place Corcoran Sunday 2-4 $2,195,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 305 Cumberland Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 186 Washington Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 12-4 $1,739,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
415 Sackett Street
Douglas Elliman
*****CANCELLED*****
$2,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
287 Park Place
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$2,195,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
305 Cumberland Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-3
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
186 Washington Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 12-4
$1,739,000
GMAP P*Shark
4:26#1/4:40, you are indeed my hero. Please remember to tell us about your next month-long trip (and of course any incredibly expensive purchases and financially savvy moves you make). We are SSSOOOOOOOOOOO jealous!!
(Your name isn’t Simon van Kempen by chance, is it?)
By the way, what is “pretty monogomous”. You’re allowed to cheat up to three times a month? Sounds like an interesting approach to take in a relationship.
4:36 – I don’t see the point of that article. The mega-rich are in a difference universe than the majority of people who are looking for homes in Brooklyn. People I know ARE worried about the downturn – people, for example, who are having problems selling their apt to trade up to a house. For many people, this is stressful, but not for the tiny fraction that are discussed in the article you post. I don’t think such an article adds useful info to this list since they are not representative of most buyers. Also, it seems that these threads keep devolving into arguments about the state of the market (which is uncertain at best!), but maybe we should try to stick to the properties, which do seem very aggressively priced for this market. Where are comps?? And bragging about going to Dubai is weird.
“I’m sure it’s goes without saying that you picked up two gorgeous models last night and drove them back to your place in your Prius for a night of insanely wild and mind blowing sex?”
Nope. I have a girlfriend. We’re pretty monogomous. The sex is good though. Mind blowing….? Maybe every 3rd time or so…
Just wish she’d get into the a**play a little more…
Yup, believe it, 4:36. Fascinating trip, incredible people.
Every year I pick a new place I’ve never been and go for a month.
How was Ocean City, New Jersey this year?
4:26 #1, I just adore random posts from people telling us how well they are doing financially. I’m sure it’s goes without saying that you picked up two gorgeous models last night and drove them back to your place in your Prius for a night of insanely wild and mind blowing sex?
4:26 – can’t believe you voluntarily went to dubai. sad.
Dumbo condo sets new Brooklyn record
Clock Tower penthouse
By Sarah Ryley
A $7 million-plus sale of a 14th-floor penthouse at Dumbo’s Clock Tower Condominium, a former corrugated cardboard factory built in 1915, has broken Brooklyn’s most expensive condo record.
The new record comes just two months after Elizabeth Stribling, founder of Stribling & Associates, set the record by buying a $6.6 million penthouse apartment at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, which she is marketing.
Karen Heyman, senior vice president of Sotheby’s International Realty’s Downtown Office, told The Real Deal that two West Coast men working in the financial industry bought the Clock Tower penthouse. The apartment had listed for $7.8 million, but Heyman could only confirm that the price topped $7 million.
The 3,200 square-foot, three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment had been on the market since August 2006, when it listed with Sotheby’s for $10.5 million. Heyman said the former owners, Bliss Spa founders Thierry Boue and Marcia Kilgore, weren’t “really particularly motivated at that time to sell” and rented the penthouse out for a year while the price was cut repeatedly.
Heyman said the buyers plan to use the penthouse — last renovated at least seven years ago — as a pied-a-terre, and would begin their own renovations before moving in.
“They have a place here [in Manhattan] but they absolutely love Dumbo,” said Heyman.
Developer David Walentas, known for turning Dumbo into a residential neighborhood, lives in the 15th floor penthouse. Walentas bought the building for just $6 a square foot in 1981.
Heyman said the 16th floor, with views of the city behind a glass-faced clock, is under renovation and “will definitely be the most expensive unit in Brooklyn” when sold. It is expected to sell for up to $30 million.
Hayman said she just sold a ninth-floor condo for $3.99 million, the second-highest sale in the building, without listing it. She said the buyer is a woman “who loves Dumbo and wants to be close to her grandchildren.”
Another condo is in contract for $2.87 million, to a German looking for a pied-a-terre.
A three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo on the ninth floor that sold for $3.16 million in March 2007 is back on the market for $4.3 million.
It’s May 2, 4:26.
RENT WAS DUE YESTERRDAY!
As opposed to the 20K plus you pour down the drain in rent EVERY YEAR, 4:26?
You take the prize for most moronic post on the thread today.
Congrats!!!