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
The 14th street house was bought in 2004 for $320,000, according to PropertyShark. How much went into the renovation to allow them to offer it at more than a 6 fold increase in price?? Plus, what is the right rate of inflation of park slope houses for the past 4 years?
Say what you want about the 14th Street house but having an outbuilding like a carriage house is a huge selling point and incredible luxury for many (Studio space for an artist or musician, office space for a work at homer, guest suite for someone with frequent out of town guests)
The 14th street house is sweet, but Charrette renovates all the houses with basement kitchens, and I also wonder why that is. (And they also stage them all with the same furniture and rugs.) Maybe their trying to stay in line with the way the house was originally put together? These typically didnt have kitchen plumbing on the ‘double parlor’. Check out the rental ads for this place on the Charrette site to see the stages of renovation- they essentially tore a parlor side kitchen out to get it into selling shape.
One question- what condition is that carriage house in? If it’s renovated- that’s your 2nd family rental, and that’s an even better setup for a 2 family situation.
Brownstoner, can you revive the 6 months later feature for HOTD and open house picks? 14th St is exactly the kind of house that would be interesting to follow. There was that house across the street that started at 1.895 and wound up at 1.595, pre-Bear Sterns, so it really will be telling to see what this sells for.
8 reasons why 14th st is over valued
1. The block is ugly
2. $1,995,000
3. The second floor “sitting room” is a waste of space
4. $1,995,000
5. Its a 1 family in a 2 family body
6. $1,995,000
7 Its two doors from a Foot Locker
8. Its July 18 2008 and you’re listing it for $1,995,000
all these need some major price reductions especially that Fort Green place. S Slope house is pretty on inside but $2m is still too much for such a frame house.
And yeah, if you go on google, you can see the block is pretty nasty looking. Too bad! This is close to being amazing, but it’s not.
I agree about the strange choice to put the kitchen on the garden level at 14th street. So now they have identical twin sitting areas on the parlor level, and a dark, low-ceilinged kitchen…hm.
East 17th is actually a pretty block. Unfortunately it is in Beverley Square East, which aside from South Midwood, is the least desirable of all the Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods. It’s a stone’s throw from Flatbush Avenue, many of the homes have had unfortunate renovations (including the current listing, although it’s one of few that’s suffered on that particular block). It also has one of the least active community associations. Particularly of note, the residents do not have a private security outfit operating in the neighborhood, which most others do. I live here and am not 100 percent sure how necessary the private security is, even though I subscribe, but I wouldn’t want to live in a sub-section that didn’t have that option. It would be a deal breaker for me, personally.
People who can throw 1.4 at a house would rather buy in DPW or BSW if they can’t quite afford DP or PPS. Overpriced for BSE. Price is sure to free fall several hundred thousand.