Open House Picks
Park Slope 90 6th Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12:30-2:30 $2,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 416 Waverly Avenue Massey Knakal Saturday 12-3 $1,900,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 455 15th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 12-2 $1,390,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 679 E. 18th Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2-4pm $1,350,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 969 Lincoln Place Corcoran Sunday…
Park Slope
90 6th Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$2,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
416 Waverly Avenue
Massey Knakal
Saturday 12-3
$1,900,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
455 15th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 12-2
$1,390,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
679 E. 18th Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4pm
$1,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
969 Lincoln Place
Corcoran
Sunday 12-1:30pm
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
in addition, that carriage house is not that nice on waverly. a bidet, really, that is just so new jersey. the white appliances in the kitchen? i mean come on, for 1.9M it should at least have jenn air appliances. if they listed it at 1.45M it would fly, i know i know it has parking.
Waverly carriage house is ridiculous. On the same block: a few months ago a carriage house across the street, better condition, about the same size (shallower but 3 stories) went for 1.3; 6 months ago a DOUBLE carriage house, just a few doors down from the one here, in much better condition went for 2.1. Over on Vanderbilt, a newly renovated carriage house with an empty development lot next door is on mkt for 2.2. Crazy. It’s landmarked, too: can’t do much with it.
I’ll give you the noise on 15th street but I think the limestones on that block are v pretty
14th street one block over is right on the same block as the pavilion yet because the traffic is heading the other direction it is much more quiet. People use 16th to come up the slope. All it takes is one fresh direct truck blocking traffic and you get a symphony of car horns.
On the topic of the noisy block on 15th St., we looked at a beautifully renovated apt. on PPW, well priced, ground floor VERY close to the Pavilion. We passed on it because we thought the street traffic (both foot and automobile) would be torture. Any opinions on that assessment? It was a great apt., and I keep questioning our decision.
I’m sure good windows can make 15th street quieter… and street is probably fine….
Just that wouldn’t be ‘as desirable’ as other blocks and therefore a bit cheaper….how much? who knows.
I wasn’t suggesting that bidding wars don’t happen, but the realtors we talked to said that they are now infrequent and they no longer price with the idea of spurring a bidding war. They all said they’d price the house above the target in the hopes of getting the target. I imagine this varies a bit depending on the hotness of the specific neighborhood and the house.
15th st may be noisy but it can’t be worse than PPW that is so desirable. And can’t be something that a problem that some citi-quiet windows wouldn’t fix?
I don’t think bidding war is a thing of the past. It’s the newest (and oldest) approach to bringing buyers, those that have been turned off by over-pricing, back to the table. It also helps to generate ‘buzz’ and traffic at the open houses. It’s a way of ensuring that the momentum continues. I just wish brokers were more honest about the products that they’re selling because they’ll just end up frustrating more and more buyers until they all drop out of the market.