Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 419 Union Street Corcoran Sunday 1-2:30 $2,550,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 318 First Street NYT Sunday 12-3 $2,250,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 439 Waverly Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-1 $1,299,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1139 Dean Street Mark David Sunday 11-4 $750,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
419 Union Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-2:30
$2,550,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
318 First Street
NYT
Sunday 12-3
$2,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
439 Waverly Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1
$1,299,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1139 Dean Street
Mark David
Sunday 11-4
$750,000
GMAP P*Shark
to all critics – i wonder:
what are fair prices at this moments? are these brownstoners worth it at 20% less (like suggested) or would folks still carp at those prices?
4:26 – is that what it all comes down to? God bless America!
A block from Gowanus? $3m. Glow-in-the-dark condoms littering the sidewalk? Priceless.
3:52, it doesn’t matter if the owner “could” pay for private school, houses in good public school zones get a premium. And that block of Union is just not that nice. It’s “okay”, but definitely not prime Carroll Gardens — close to the Gowanus, etc. So paying over 2.5 million for a 35 ft. long house just seems ridiculous. I’m sorry but that renovation just isn’t that good. Is there central air?
The family that can afford $2.5m isn’t buying a block from the Gowanus Canal.
Though I suppose if they can afford private school, they can also afford a top notch oncologist.
4:11 you missed the point. It’s not who “can” afford these, but why would someone who worked hard for their money (or whose parents did) choose to waste it overpaying?
And anyone who thinks NY is the only place worth living really needs to get out a bit more. There are many places more interesting, beautiful, cheap, convenient to live in than CG or PS, even in this metro area. And while many industries pay more here than elsewhere, the pay differential is usually less than the housing cost differential.
Private school for two kids is over 50k / year. That’s roughly the after tax cost of a $1m mortgage. So 3:52 is basically saying “the family that can afford $2.5m can afford $3.5m.”
Given the shape of the wealth and income distributions (both are very steep at the right end and the wealth is much steeper), there are likely to be many — 4 or 5 times as many — families in the first group as in the second.
4:04 – why would 1st street move now when it’s been lingering for over a year? I actually think they started out asking 2mil and somehow decided to ask more, which is totally crazy. It won’t move without a min 20% price cut.
Hello who can afford these houses? It is called borrowing money from Parents, large down payments 700000 mortgage. Come on people be a little creative here, this is NYC there are lots of people who have money or who have access to money. YOu all act like we live in Nebraska or something. And what bugs the crap out of me is you are probably the same whiners who boast that NYC is the only place on the face of the earth that is worth living in, but act shocked that some people have the money to purchase these over priced properties IN THE GREATEST CITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE. Cheese whiz I say get over yourself.