Open House Picks
South Slope 237 14th Street Warren Lewis: Sunday 12-2 Townsley & Gay: Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 396 Vanderbilt Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Archive! Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 325 East 17th Street Brooklyn Properties Archive! Sunday 12-1:30 $1,325,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 191 Halsey Street Corcoran Sunday 2-3:30 $950,000 GMAP…
South Slope
237 14th Street
Warren Lewis: Sunday 12-2
Townsley & Gay: Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
396 Vanderbilt Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener Archive!
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
325 East 17th Street
Brooklyn Properties Archive!
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,325,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
191 Halsey Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2-3:30
$950,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ssloper, I’d be interested to hear more about your house (fixer uppers are fine for us). Can I email you off-list?
I have a house in the S Slope (closer to N Slope than 14th st, btw. 4th & 5th but a prettier block than most) that I’m thinking of putting on market in the fall. Are you interested, Ms. Muffet? Are you looking for something finished or fixer-upper?
When the 14th street house was a complex of rentals, it had a parlor kitchen and the carriage house was it’s own rental and I think it also had it’s own plumbing. I think they cleared it all out so that it would not pose a problem for C of Os if someone want to buy.
Miss Muffett- I think that there’s probably a lot of people who would take this house and run with it. It poses a few challenges, but it’s not really a fixer upper. The possibilities are really nice, but it’s also nice enough to move into and wait for a real renovation. It’s going to appeal to a smaller number of buyers, but that market is there, and there is a subset of the market looking to move into these little woodframes. I think at this point, we all understand at this point that the house doesn’t appeal to you.
It’s priced too high, but let the seller worry about that. Someone will bid it down to where the market will bear it.
Hey, anyone make it to 17 Park Place (BHS listing)? I was curious about that one, but out of town, so couldn’t go.
Miss Muffet, if you were looking specifically in the South Slope, where I live, it could be noted that there are more houses for sale than a year ago. But in the SS it seems owners tend to list more with local brokers that I never heard of than the big guns, and so the listings don’t seem to make the regular channels. But if you walk/cycle/drive around there is product in the SS.
Well, Bolder, I certainly hope that this time of summer is why there’s so little on the market right now. Really, I don’t get it – I know the market is shifting but really, any seller whose had their house more than a few years would still make a very tidy profit – even if prices dropped as much as 20%. So why is no one selling? Is it just the time of year? I keep hoping more retirees will want to cash out, esp since home prices just about everywhere else in the country are so cheap so you could sell your NYC place, buy a beautiful home in say, North Carolina or Florida, and have a nice retirement. OK, I know folks will say that banks/stock market are iffy now, but you can spread your cash around in conservative places and there are certainly plenty of safe banks (it’s the smaller regional ones that are most at risk now…). And actually, if I was thinking of selling, I’d actually sell NOW when prices are still pretty high, instead of waiting a year or so, since with all the economic bad news, things could get a lot worse in the NYC housing market. Anyway, I can see how a garden kitchen can work in some cases, but 14th St left me pretty cold, esp for that shockingly optimistic price, so I hope there will indeed be more listings come the fall…
According to the broker, the 14th. Street house has all the connections on the parlor floor to hook up a kitchen. If this is true, it would make it a lot easier to convert back to a two family and get some rental income coming in, personally, I thought that the house was big enough that I wouldn’t miss garden level, and the money coming in would be nice. The carriage house had what appeared to be a capped off 4″ cast iron waste line and a water line coming in, but the broker didn’t know if they were connected or not. It seems like they were, because they went to some pains to leave an access area when they poured the slab.
I thought that the house itself was very nice. Yeah, some minor problems here and there, but overall very nice space, tastefully done, and the carriage house made me drool when I thought of all my tools in it, but the block itself leaves something to be desired. W
While 5th. Ave. is getting hipper and hipper, I doubt if the Bank of America, Blockbuster, Seven/Eleven, Footlocker or Rent-A-Center are going anywhere which is going to make it tough for that particular strip to change much.
Some of the houses on 14th. itself were really depressing. For a lower price I could deal with that, but not for almost 2 mil.
Nice house though.
If what you say is true about the 14th St. house, too bad. I think the garden floor kitchen layout is cool, in that if you’re having a party guests can go right out to the garden. I dont think it would be easy to run plumbing out to the outbuilding, at least in NYC. The permitting process alone gives me the shakes. To get that ask, in that location, everything better be pristine.
The other houses are crap, just crap. There are so many red flags on that bed-stuy house, and the dodgy front door on the Ft. Greene place says “stay away.”
This time of summer, though, is probably not the best time to try to sell a home.
Well, I went to 14th St open house, and if anything, it reinforced my doubts about quality of renovation. The frig already had some rusty patches on the stainless steel and the kitchen overall felt like the materials were not that great, other than the fancy brand appliances (and the frig too, I might add, was very shallow – my mom has a fancy subzero frig and always much preferred our much roomier and more practical Whirlpool model…) Yes, the carriage house has not an ounce of plumbing – it’s just 4 walls and cement floors and what looks like a hastily constructed stairwell to a mezzanine. Truly, I will be stunned if this gets above 1.7.