Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 221 Greene Avenue Corcoran Saturday, 12-2pm Sunday 12-2pm $1,455,000 GMAP Carroll Gardens East 445 Carroll Street Cobble Heights Realty Sunday 1-3pm $1,200,000 GMAP Fort Greene 92 Lafayette Avenue Corcoran Saturday, 12-1pm Sunday 12-1pm $1,050,000 GMAP Bed Stuy 113 Decatur Street By Owner Saturday, 2-4pm Sunday 2-4pm $850,000 GMAP
Clinton Hill
221 Greene Avenue
Corcoran
Saturday, 12-2pm
Sunday 12-2pm
$1,455,000 GMAP
Carroll Gardens East
445 Carroll Street
Cobble Heights Realty
Sunday 1-3pm
$1,200,000 GMAP
Fort Greene
92 Lafayette Avenue
Corcoran
Saturday, 12-1pm
Sunday 12-1pm
$1,050,000 GMAP
Bed Stuy
113 Decatur Street
By Owner
Saturday, 2-4pm
Sunday 2-4pm
$850,000 GMAP
I saw the house at 92 Lafayette for sale for $795 K a little less than a year ago, before corcoran got ahold of it. There was a dominatrix on the second floor who informed us it was “not a good time” to be looking at her apartment.
Mr. James,
Right. If I don’t sell, it doesn’t matter to me if prices go up or down. If they go up and I sell, I gain. (No ATM-ing my house for me, thx very much.) My point was simply that I don’t have any ulterior motive in badmouthing the price of a nearby house — bitterness, wanting to buy, etc. — since I’m rising with the same (possibly illusory) tide. I just honestly think the house is ridiculously overpriced by neighborhood standards.
Brownstoner’s buddy lowers his price by about $200k
http://realestate.nytimes.com/Sales/View_Ulisting.asp
shit, there is nothing good out there.
I’ve seen houses of this size listed closer to 900k, but they were bet to 3 & 4 ave, bet 10-15 st. Is this location that much better? OTOH, If this size house was 3 blocks west it would be a bargin, so that is the question.
You only gain if you sell or take a cash-out refi/HELOC. But what’s a larger mortgage among friends. So what? you owe the bank more. Nothing wrong with being a homeower. The warm feeling of being rich will lull you to sleep as the air ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssslowly… leaks out of the bubble. Otherwise your “gains” are as real as the emperor’s new clothes. The feeling is nice, isn’t it? But that and .50 will buy you and your pseudeau-nouveau-rich neighbors, one nasty cup of coffee.
It was sarcasm. From the size and looks of it — no major restoration of historic detail, generic-looking floors and kitchen — I’m guessing they put in a couple hundred thou. God bless ’em if they make a profit, but any buyer who gives them half a mil profit on this flip job in less than a year is a sucker. Yet I am sure that sucker exists.
I say this, by the way, as an owner in Park Slope who has only to gain from inflating prices such as this.
why should they have to put in $700k? Are you telling me people are not allowed to make a profit.
That house in “Carroll Gardens East” (how cute — “Gowanus” now apparently only refers to the canal) has 1448 residential square feet per propertyshark, for the decidedly un-old-neighborhood price of $828 sq ft. Also per propshark, was sold in August for $470,000. Gut renovated, apparently, but I don’t think they quite sunk $700,000 into it.