Open House Picks
Park Slope 609 6th Street Heights Berkeley Sunday 2:30-4:30pm $2,598,000 GMAP Fort Greene 206 Vanderbilt Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Saturday 1-3pm $1,800,000 GMAP Park Slope 355A 14th Street Townsley & Gay Sunday 12-2pm $1,650,000 GMAP Bedford Stuyvesant 425 Franklin Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2pm $925,000 GMAP Prospect Lefferts Gardens 19 Chester Court Aguayo & Huebener Sunday…
Park Slope
609 6th Street
Heights Berkeley
Sunday 2:30-4:30pm
$2,598,000
GMAP
Fort Greene
206 Vanderbilt Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Saturday 1-3pm
$1,800,000
GMAP
Park Slope
355A 14th Street
Townsley & Gay
Sunday 12-2pm
$1,650,000
GMAP
Bedford Stuyvesant
425 Franklin Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2pm
$925,000
GMAP
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
19 Chester Court
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3:30pm
$749,000
GMAP
why not just call it Sunset Park?
I thought Bedford-Stuyvesant was between Bedford and Stuyvesant. Why else would it be called Bedford-Stuyvesant? Thus the house on Franklin technically is in the part of Clinton Hill that is one block from the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Architecture has everything to do with defining a neighborhood. Physical boundaries such as water, parks, highways are not always present in defining a neighborhood.
If you look at Park Slope as an example. Flatbush Ave, PPW and 5th ave clearly contain a specific housing type 4 story brick or stone attached houses with stoops. The south border is not as clear (13th or 15th St).
South of Park Slope attached frame houses without stoops out number brick and stone house with stoops it clearly is a different neighborhood.
Besides the gowanus canal there is the gowanus bay. Gowanus Heights was the name of the area now refered to as South of Park Slope. Maybe in the 50’s to 2000 people have called it South Brooklyn.
People should embrace the name Gowanus Heights.
Continuing Anon 6:31
Calculate what cost per square foot is for comparables and apply to your property. You can factor in a few dollars more per sq. ft. for nicer block, higher quality renovations, proximity to transportation (not too close, bus stop in front of house or rumblings from subway would decrease the value). Pricing is very important.
The best way to come up with a price is by comparing to recent sales in your nabe.
Fellow B-stoners. In your opinion what do you think is a fair price to sell a 1 family newly renovated architecturally designed 4 story b-stone (located between Grand and Clifton)? The house includes a total of 3 baths, 2 bedrooms, a master bedroom suite including a walk-in custom built closet, an office, double parlors ( includes dinning and formal living room), a family room, and a custom designed chef’s kitchen. The house has Central Heating and A/C (2 zones). The house is wired for cable, internet, and sound (6 zone Russound Sound System integrated with 2 Home Theater systems) that was professionally installed. The house has 4 stripped and stained decorative fire places. The floors (including stairs and banisters) have been stripped and stained ebony or is newly installed (maple flooring). The kitchen includes custom designed oak cabinets with an island, stainless steel GE Monogram kitchen appliances, Grohe fixtures, and Lime Stone Counter Tops. The master bath includes a separate glass included shower (including 6 shower heads and a hand shower), a 2 person BainUltra whirlpool tub, and custom built-in oak cabinets that have his and her Lefroy Brooks XO vessel sinks that compliments the Grohe out of the wall fixtures, and Toto toilet. The guest bath is tiled with bevel edge subway tiles & glass shower blocks which include Kohler products (sink, cast iron tub, & fixtures), and a Toto toilet. The powder room is tiled in honey onyx, with a honey onyx vessel sink, again with Grohe fixtures and a Toto toilet. The dining room has a custom oak built-in wet bar with a limestone counter top, recessed bar sink, and a built-in mini GE monogram fridge. From the kitchen you can enter through the Jeldwen-Norco patio doors into the backyard that is aprox. 55 feet deep with a 25 foot Trex deck professionally installed. Basically the house is totally redone and is a beautiful mix of the old and new. I know the description is a lot to digest but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
As I understand it, larger firms like Corcoran are fine with co-broking. It is the smaller Brooklyn-type brokers who don’t like it. But then again, what do I know? (Not much.)
The large firms co-broke. I really don’t think you know what you are talking about.
I stand by the intent of my comment, which is that firms such as Corcoran don’t want an MLS in Brooklyn (or anywhere in NYC, especially Manhattan) — precisely because they don’t want to co-broke. As a result, we’re left with an archaic system in NYC where most of the major brokerages operate as mini-fiefdoms and do what they can to convince most sellers to give them exclusives. It’s an even worse deal for buyers, who (as I believe someone else mentioned earlier in this thread) have to spend a lot of time looking at the listings of multiple brokers.