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
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Anon 12.33. That’s an old strategy. Not all buyers have the stomach to try it for fear of not getting high enough offers, but it does often work.
Love the Waverly bidet, or “a#$ sink” as I like to call it. Seems expensive for under 2000 sq. feet though?
I think that the bidding war is the new strategy of the real estate agents. Low-ball the property, incite a bidding war and, presto, you get an offer way above your bottomline.
I hate bidding wars…leads to irrational exuberance. Wouldn’t even think of buying a hud property or one that’s been in foreclosure….they almost always go for more than they would on the regular market.
Stuyblkbuttrflie,
I had the same reaction when I bought my 1st apt thru Warren Lewis. I thought certain there must be something wrong with it because it was mint condition, perfect, but priced 20% below mkt.
Like I said above, I bid asking, the sellers readily accepted, I kept looking for skeletons in the closet, there were none (accept owners really needed the cash cause they’d already bought something).
When I sold that puppy a few yrs later… well you really don’t want to know how much I made.
For here on out, I buy thru Warren Lewis. Not so sure I’d sell thru them though if you want the best price. I’d sell thru Corcoran or one of the other big Manhattan brokerages.
I can believe that @ Anon 12:26.
Re Lincoln Place: I think this property may be a diamond in the rough that being said I like the facade but considering the ugly fire escape in the front yard and the natural assumption that no interior pics automatically makes it a dumb I’d say all things considered a decrease of about 50K may get them somewhere.
Re 15th St, I’ve bought two homes from Warren Lewis over the past few yrs. IMO, they are like the anti-Corcoran because instead of overpricing, they tend to underprice, which works well if you’re the 1st guy on the scene and lock it up before anybody figures out whats going on. However, this also tends to create vicious bidding wars, which is what happened on my recent purchase. I should have bid near asking (I ultimately paid over ask) from the beginning and taken it out of play immediately. In my 1st purchase (years ago), I bid asking and it was immediately accepted (even though it was still about 20% below mkt).
perhaps the 15th street house is priced for a bidding war? I can see it selling for more.
I agree with superfreak I think the 15th street house is reasonably priced. why do I feel like there has to be something wrong with it? reasonable price and park slope in the same sentence is rarely uttered around these parts. the pics look pretty good is the roof caving of something? is there a dead body buried somewhere? what gives?! if everything is good with it I give it a thumbs up.
I’m surprised Corcoran took the listing on the Lincoln Place house. That’s a lot of money for a very small, obvious fixer upper on a “eh” block.
It is only a block away from the subway, and not too far from the children’s museum, but to say that its walking distance from the Bklyn Museum, the Gardens and the Park is really a stretch. That’s like saying Clinton Hill is walking distance from the Promenade. Technically true, but not a short stroll.