Open House Picks
Park Slope 112 St. Marks Place Edie & Inga Sunday 12-3 $1,500,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 74 Lincoln Road Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $1,395,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 47 Marlborough Road Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,049,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 50 Putnam Avenue Mark David Sunday 1-1:45 $850,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
112 St. Marks Place
Edie & Inga
Sunday 12-3
$1,500,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
74 Lincoln Road
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-3
$1,395,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
47 Marlborough Road
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,049,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
50 Putnam Avenue
Mark David
Sunday 1-1:45
$850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Anyone who thinks the PLG house will go for 1.1 is either clueless or trying to drive away the competition. BHS sold a 2 story house with 1 bathroom and no parking on Lincoln in PLG for 1.150 last year.
Interesting, 5:44. When I was looking to move from the Slope 5 years ago, I concentrated on PLG and DP. And came to the exact opposite conclusion. Although we love – and still love – PLG’s housing stock, we way preferred the location, the proximity to the park, the driveways, as well as the transportation options. Oh, yeah, and just to stir things up, the crime rate. All this, back when Cortelyou Road was still a dustbowl.
I almost bought in PLG because back when you could still get a limestone on Maple for less than $495. the housing stock is pristine, but in terms of quality of life – no thanks. Ditmas, as we thought it would, has travelled light years in comparison.
I eagerly went to the Lincoln Road house, ready to be swept away. It is gorgeous–lovely details, nicely renovated. The living room is small, but the other rooms are good sized. The yard is pleasant, but the street really is not that nice–the apartments across the way are really huge and Flatbush Avenue feels very close. Too close for my comfort. I just would never feel comfortable there. Will it sell for the asking price? I doubt it. No one at the open house–which was pretty empty–seemed very excited. I think the apartments and the closeness to Flatbush are too big an obstacle. But you never do know!
my mom went to st marks pl. she saids it needs a total gut.
Anyone check out the Marlborough Rd. house, I really wanted to go but I couldnt make it today?
The comparison at 4:39 is interesting – I watched it done, and it is a completely generic no detail gut rehab. The exterior of the Franklin Avenue house has no detail, a weird ass parapet and is three blocks further into Bed-Stuy. But I would agree that it is precisely houses like that which might allow normal people to buy a place. I suspect the buyer would have to do what the buyer of the building across the street from the Putnam Avenue house is doing – regutting the owner’s apartment to make it more to their taste. So I’m not sure that the Franklin Avenue house actually would be considered fully renovated by most readers of this site.
The razor wire on the fence is less an expression of the neighborhood (altho it is the worst corner of Clinton Hill) and more a neighbor dispute which predated my arrival on the block. (Someone used another’s backyard to pass through construction materials).
We looked at both neighborhoods of PLG and Ditmas when looking to buy, but good transportation and close proximity to Prospect Park and Park Slope from PLG was more appealing to us than having a handful more amenities in Ditmas. Ditmas has a small commercial stretch on Cortelyou that’s cute, but we knew we’d end up going to Park Slope all the time anyway, instead of eating and shopping on Cortelyou every single day.
I don’t know the neighborhood, but the razor wire on the fence at Putnam is pretty depresssing.
Putnam is overpriced. Almost the exact same house 3 blocks away (also corner, with garage) for $899k fully renovated.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/rfs/675014707.html