Open House Picks
Fort Greene 402 Vanderbilt Avenue Corcoran Sunday 1-3pm $1,750,000 GMAP Prospect Heights 331 Park Place By Owner Sunday 2-4pm $1,700,000 GMAP Crown Heights 258 New York Avenue Corcoran Sunday 1-3pm $925,000 GMAP Bedford Stuyvesant 186 Van Buren Street Sotheby’s Sunday 2-4pm $795,000 GMAP
Fort Greene
402 Vanderbilt Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3pm
$1,750,000
GMAP
Prospect Heights
331 Park Place
By Owner
Sunday 2-4pm
$1,700,000
GMAP
Crown Heights
258 New York Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3pm
$925,000
GMAP
Bedford Stuyvesant
186 Van Buren Street
Sotheby’s
Sunday 2-4pm
$795,000
GMAP
Does anyone know what the price range is to reside a wood frame house with clapboard?
Does anyone know what the price range is to reside a wood frame house with clapboard?
To 8/29 9.42am Anonymous posting about Carroll Gardens… I lived in Carroll Gardens for a couple of years before moving to Ft. Greene (now in Clinton Hill) about 4 years ago. I love Carroll Gardens and it does have amenities. However, Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill have much more consistent, grand and interesting architecture, as well as amenities and Ft. Greene Park. The housing stock is just better in terms of details and preserved facades of buildings, so I think that accounts for part of the rise in prices over some Carroll Gardens listings. Plus, almost all of Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill are landmared, not just a few blocks here and there like Carroll Gardens. That being said, I love C. Gardens, but maybe that accounts for some of the rising prices too that you are observing. Also, I have to say that I’ve seen plenty of C. Gardens listings that are higher than F. Greene and C. Hill…
The fact remains: 268 New York Ave sold one year ago for $533,000. The house is four houses away from #258.
Sorry, re the New York Ave. house post (below), I meant Crown Heights, of course, not Prospect Heights.
Correction: re the post about the New York Avenue (open) house, the address the poster looked up is wrong: it is not 268 New York Ave., but 258 New York Ave. The house did not sell a year ago, but has been owned by the same person since 1987 (when she took out a mortgage for a little over $200,000 ). Regardless, the present price of $925,00 is way, way over value–market or otherwise. You can’t blame owners for wanting to cash out in this market but considering the terrible shape of the house, the fact that very little detail remains, and the enormous reconstruction work needed, the price is way out of bounds. Don’t give up on Prospect Heights, though: just keep looking!
I took a look at the PH house just for kicks, since I am already happy w/my home in PH. Here’s thing about it: I don’t know how a person prices out the work that happens underneath the floors and walls. how do you decide what it’s worth to have stuff like a pump in the basement floor so it can never flood, or metal columns (I don’t know what they’re called) supporting the house so it will never be unstable, or speaker wire run into the dining room and upstairs? and the reno may not be to everyone’s taste, but it seemed like whoever did it made the old details a little more contemporary, not as stuffy as old houses can sometimes look. Maybe 1.7 is high, maybe it’s not, but i can say for sure that i don’t know when I’ve seen a nicer job. even if i don’t know if it will sell for the asking price, I thought it was “the real deal.”
Yeah, from all of the comments, that Crown Price house seems priced due to the momentum of the market and for no other reason.
268 New York Ave sold one year ago for $533,000.