Open House Picks
Park Slope 617 8th Avenue Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $2,195,000 was $2,595,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
617 8th Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$2,195,000 was $2,595,000
GMAP P*Shark
543A 6th Avenue
Townsley & Gay
Sunday 1-3
$1,475,000
GMAP P*Shark
Lefferts Manor
128 Rutland Road
Brown Harris Stevens
Sat 2:30-4:30, Sun 2:30-4:30
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Gowanus
203 8th Street
Urban Living
Sunday 12-2
$975,000
GMAP P*Shark
But wait… the realtor says the Gowanus house is a “Perfect investment that can be rented for high rent.”
I’m sure that means you can rent it for $6000 or even $8000 to cover the mortgage payment and basic maintenance.
Friggin’ ridiculous!
11217 – Amusingly, MrsCWB is more open to living in Gowanus than I am. She may yet convince me. 🙂
that house on 8th st – whoever took those pictures really knows how to influence the prospective buyer, not.
the 8th avenue house is a very nice house. who knows what it’s worth today, or even next week, but it’s a nice house.
the sixth ave house looks very nice actually. probably is narrow, but when the price gets cut it will look wider.
Just by listening to you on this blog, I can’t imagine you’d be happy with that house down in the Gowanus, CW. I wasn’t trying to imply that. To go from the absolutely gorgeous block you live on now to down there would be quite a shock, to say the least.
I do, however think that with the addition of all those new units on 4th (even if they become rentals) 4th Avenue will continue to gentrify at a relatively rapid pace. I don’t really think that the stuff opening up will be of high quality (see papa Johns’, etc) but this is the first stage in the process.
Either way, 4th is ugly. No two ways around that.
I think you can find something in a much more beautiful area for your price range.
11217 – Yeh, I’m not entirely disagreeing with you. That said, I still feel like 4th avenue has a lot further to go before I’m going to want to buy stuff to the west side of it. Until they come up with some kind of sane plan for the canal, Gowanus is going to stagnate … pun fully intended.
At $600k, the house is probably a good deal. At $975? Maybe not. It’s close to 5th ave, close to the subway, and even close to the 7th and third stop of the bus which runs between park slope and smith street.
In all honesty, I’m just nitpicking because I don’t really want ANY of these houses, for the price they’re listed at. I know where I want to be and what I want to pay. Sadly, those two things do not in any way coincide. 🙂
Santa,
I’d MUCH rather live in Gowanus as well.
“If 5th avenue is losing businesses, there’s no way 4th avenue is going to undergo a resurgence, you know? :)”
CWB, Don’t let a crappy store called Love ? make you think 5th Avenue is losing businesses overall. Compared to what it was like 8 years ago, 5th is literally night and day. If you didn’t live here then, you can’t even imagine.
I can think of at least 20 stores/restaurants which have opened in the last 12 months on 5th Avenue, it’s just that sometimes we seem to focus on the ones that close here more often.
If anything, I think this recession will weed out some of the crap on 5th and bring in even better businesses. Even walking down 7th the other day, I noticed at least 2 or 3 new things opening soon.
maybe its just me but I would rather live in the gowanus house than the PLG house.
compared to the HOTD – 107 Rutland. This Rutland is a deal. That house was much smaller (16ft) and didn’t have as many details – nicely renovated nonetheless.