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
This entire selection of houses is totally depressing. 15th street is nice and the “Ditmas” house is lovely but the location is a no-go for me. The others are unappealing. And they are all absurdly overpriced (with the exception of 15th street, which does actually seem reasonalbe). If I really needed to buy something now, I would probably skip Brooklyn altogether.
As for AH and the bidding war strategy: When I sold through them 4 years ago they priced the house a little lower than they said I should get–and we ended up with 3 bids at 12% over asking. More recently I discussed selling a property with realtors and they all said that bidding wars were largely a thing of the past and that they’d price the house higher than they expected to get in the end. For what it is worth…
Fifteen Street’s catches are there, if minor: the street has two bus routes and is the main conduit off of PPW — therefore, there’s always traffic and parking isn’t easy. Second, the layout with a top floor rental is less than ideal.
Still, aggressively priced, or underpriced as people have noted.
Anon 12:49 – I like the layout of this house I don’t have a problem with it at all, I don’t think its inferior to the usual set-up. I have a friend who owns a bstone where the duplex is the second and third floor and the rental is the parlor floor, I don’t like that layout, this one is fine though.
Re Lincoln House: I don’t hate this house too much (haha) I think that it could be really nice with some TLC maybe I’m just having a good day today. the thing is the properties next to it look as terrible as this one on the exterior so after you put all that work into your home its still in the middle of two eye sores. this property definitely looks like its owned by an off site landlord, I’d like to assume that someone would take better care of this if they had to live there. I could be wrong though, maybe the owner doesn’t have the money to keep it up.
The style of the CH house bothers me- seems like they just randomly added amenities instead of creating a HOME ( see previous thread). Not for me thank you. What a waste.
Re: Lincoln Place again. This street is really narrow – it feels almost like a mews street if you are walking down it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and is actually kinda cozy in a way, and someday, people will be clamoring all over the place for a house on a mews block. But not today.
Even only couple of years ago, houses like this, and I am assuming it needs a lot of interior as well as exterior work, could be picked up in CH for around 300K. The presence of the fire escape makes me think it is probably pretty chopped up inside, and there probably is little to recommend on the inside.
But then, I don’t have x-ray vision, so I could be completely wrong. If anyone goes (or if I do) I’ll report.
Ditmas Park House is on East 18th between Foster and Glenwood- Midwood Park. No apartment buildings back up to it. It’s huge and is without question the nicest house on the block- and right up there with the nicest in Midwood Park. I say this with some self-examination because my house is on this block as well. Interior details are virtually untouched, exterior is nicely finished (original siding/shingles, sweet front porch), landscaping is in good shape, etc…I walk past it every day and admire it regularly. Based on comp. sales in the neighborhood, I think it’s priced about right.
What do people think of the layout of 15th St house – enter downstairs, master suite and bedrooms on parlor floor? We are looking at a place with a similar layout and think I would really like it – easy access to garden and great light in the bedrooms – but I would have thought people here would find it a negative…
Anon 12:32 – I don’t think anyone who is trying to buy this house will be as lucky as you. brokers and buyers are too savvy these days the chances of someone lucking up on this place and getting it at asking is a shot in the darkest of dark tunnels especially considering the free publicity its getting here. I hate bidding wars too, I’m one of those buyers who don’t have the stomach for it. though I hesitate to use the word never it has to be a pretty spectacular property for me to fight over it and pay a huge premium when I know its being underpriced for that purpose.
that is really good to known about warren lewis. thanks for sharing the tip.