Open House Picks: Six Months Later
Other than the Windsor Place sale, not a lot of reasons to cheer. Correction: We just got an email letting us know that the Parkside house is actually in contract, allegedly for the asking price of $1,175,000 for an unknown price. Open House Picks 2/29/08 [Brownstoner]
Other than the Windsor Place sale, not a lot of reasons to cheer. Correction: We just got an email letting us know that the Parkside house is actually in contract, allegedly for the asking price of $1,175,000 for an unknown price.
Open House Picks 2/29/08 [Brownstoner]
Correction MR… yesterday’s house is in WT, not “South Slope”…
It also abutted a school which could be a plus or a minus.
is what I meant to say
In my (sometimes faulty) memory 272 Windsor had a little more character than reflected in the photos. OTOH it also had a kitchen you’d most likely have to gut unless you were in a wheelchair or were very very short. It also abutted a school which could be a plus
I think the market values WT higher than this board does. Nice housing stock, safe, and very near the park. I’m not surprised people like it. But now I’m in broken record territory.
I love PLG, but there are several houses that have been pulled off the market because they haven’t attracted offers.
73 Rutland, 216 Midwood. . . along with other sellers who are hunkering down for now.
The people at 30 Midwood may wind up being the first ones to ever lose money on their place, once they pay the brokers and taxes.
Does that mean the sky is falling? No. But things are definitely tough out there.. ..
On the claim people aren’t buying in PLG, one neighbor who sold recently had about 40 couples come see his house, all young professionals mostly from Manhattan, in finance and banking and business. There is a ton of interest in PLG. So there, that’s an actual true story anecdote, not a speculation from the outside looking in.
I agree with Amanda. Prices coming down is a reason to cheer for plenty of people.
Sometimes the people who give us info about props in contract don’t want to be id’d
Not a lot of reasons to cheer? C’mon Mr B: you assume we’re all sellers here. I’m no What, but I’m definitely hoping the market will eventually stoop to my level.
Meanwhile, I would love it if you all added a specific category for the sixth month follow ups. I find them far more interesting than the Open House picks.
Actually, the PLG place on Parkside says it’s in contract.
The Midwood place will sell. Those houses are beautiful. Tons of potential for design enthusiasts. One house on that block that was gut renovated and on the house tour this year was breathtaking, like out of a magazine.
On that note, some sales baffle me, like the Windsor Place house. Other people have other priorities, but aesthetics are important to me in daily life. It enriches quality of life, mood, my productivity. Makes all the pain in the rear tasks of owning an old house feel worth it, when a house is very pretty. So I just could never spend $1.5 million and get no details and nothing special. No wow factor.