Open House Picks
Park Slope 204 St Johns Place Warburg Realty Sunday 12-2pm $2,890,000 GMAP Clinton Hill 484 Classon Avenue Corcoran Sunday 11am-1pm $1,300,000 GMAP Ditmas Park 873 Ocean Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2:30-4pm $999,000 GMAP Crown Heights 179 Kingston Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2pm $925,000 GMAP
Park Slope
204 St Johns Place
Warburg Realty
Sunday 12-2pm
$2,890,000
GMAP
Clinton Hill
484 Classon Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 11am-1pm
$1,300,000
GMAP
Ditmas Park
873 Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2:30-4pm
$999,000
GMAP
Crown Heights
179 Kingston Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2pm
$925,000
GMAP
BigBubba, while it’s entirely possible that if you were to measure it as the crow flies, the Atlantic Yards are closer to this house on St. John’s than the park, in fact that’s not really relevant. Nobody living on St. John’s Place would normally have much reason to walk down Flatbush toward the intersection where all of this development will take place. Life is oriented toward the park, and toward the shopping strip on Seventh Avenue, both of which are about a 2-minute walk out the front door. I simply can’t imagine the Atlantic Yards being a reason someone would choose not to buy this house. Based on some reports from people who have seen the house, it appears there are many other reasons this house turns out to be overpriced. But this is a prime, beautiful, tree-lined block, and most people seeking a Park Slope brownstone would be pleased to live on this block.
I didn’t go to the OH on Warrent Street but lived on Wycoff btwn Smith and Hoyt for a few years. The projects are on Hoyt btwn Warren and Wycoff so maybe that is why the price seems lower than normal.
Did anyone go to open house- from Elliman- 355 Warren Street? What is story?
http://www.elliman.com/Listing.aspx?ListingID=722786&SearchType=newestsale
$1.1 for 3 family sounds a bit under most listings I have seen even if needs work. (20’x40′ house according to propshark. Looks look basement level is more real basement than garden level – so perhaps 3.5 floors-2800sqft?)
This still under $400sq.ft
Anonymous at 1:54 PM –
Those are fighting words! If you could read you would see that all I said was that this house is CLOSER to the proposed Atlantic Yards development than the park. The poster I was responding to mentioned how close it was to the park and completely dismissed how close it was to Atlantic Yards. Please let’s read carefully the posts we are responding to before going all ape out there.
I’ve been through the St Johns place top to bottom, and while it is a nice house in a good location (give the Atlantic Avenue stuff a rest — it’s far away), a couple of things bother me about it. First, it is certainly not a 21′ wide. Second, while it photographs well, all of the surfaces need to be reskimmed and repainted; it is most certainly not museum quality. Finally, portions of the house really need work — the top floor hasn’t been updated since the 40s (needing, e.g., new electrics), the cellar has obvious plumbing problems, and the extension is also a wreck. Again, not musuem quality.
So it needs a lot of work, and therefore I think its overpriced.
Hey kids, I work for Corcoran, and it’s not us who jack up the prices, it’s the SELLERS. Everyone’s place is worth more than the highest rumoured price in the neighborhood–and this is true from Park Slope to Bed Stuy. Yup, we get our sellers the highest price–that’s a RE agent’s job. It ain’t overpriced if someone’s willing to pay the price (or more).
Oh and one more thing – never heard back. Does Big Bubba occupy all of his castle, or does he collect rental income and is basically forced to live in a coop sized space? Just curious?
And I think that wallpaper is fab!
You won’t get screwed if you sell your prime location property with Corcoran and then take a gamble with your profits in an up and coming neighborhood. As I said earlier, we sold my Park Slope coop through Corcoron for a price we thought was just outrageous, and the with about 3/4 of the profit (after taxes and RE fees) bought a house in Ditmas Park. This was a little over two years ago, however, when asking prices in Ditmas Park were about 1/2-2/3 of what they are now. There are other neighborhoods, however (notably the Brooklyn College section of Victorian Flatbush) where this game can still be played. We now have a huge family home which we love, cash to renovate and money in the bank. It’s a big game – luck, guts and good instincts are the way to play it.