Open House Picks
Park Slope 144 St. John’s Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $2,495,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 130 Dean Street Prudential Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-2 $2,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Carroll Gardens 40 Third Place Corcoran Sunday 11:30-1 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 191 Washington Park FSBO Sunday 12-3 $1,900,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
144 St. John’s Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$2,495,000
GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
130 Dean Street
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-2
$2,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
40 Third Place
Corcoran
Sunday 11:30-1
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
191 Washington Park
FSBO
Sunday 12-3
$1,900,000
GMAP P*Shark
Two other 3rd Place houses of comparable size/set up sold this year, both between Clinton and Court; both, I think, in the $1.3 – $1.4 range. Hard to see $1.995 for the same thing, more exposed to the BQE down by Henry.
OK what is all this stuff about traffic noise on Washington Park…it’s totally quiet on that street…scarily so sometimes…
Two house in FG have sold in excess of 2.35MM in the past month which, while bigger houses, require an enormous amount of work…so $1.9MM directly accross from the park looks like an ok deal albeit needing a lot of work…
I will be really curious to see how the FG house plays out– whether they get asking, above, or below. Keep us posted, please, Mr. B.!
thanks- a loyal reader
As the owner of 191 I am flattered and amused by the range of opinions and the debate on the merits of the Ft. Greene listing. I love the neighborhood and welcome everyone (especially anon) to come for lemonade on Sunday to decide for yourself. Thanks to all for their comments.
Looking for value? Here’s a tip: look in north Crown Heights before Landmark District Designation kicks in, and before Ratner is finished. Especially Dean Street and the area around Brower Park.
Crown Heights north will benefit econimcally from Ratner’s project, even if areas outside the Landmark District suffer aesthetically, and from higher density.
Full disclosure: I bought in Crown Heights four years ago and comparables today are up in value considerably.
12:30
re: prime PS.
OK, I could correct myself. My house has a better location then 144 St John’s Place in Park Slope. It is not on the “named” street but above 7th ave.
And while we were about to go into contract we briefly considered other house less then half block to the park on 8th street, big, lots of original details – asking price was 1.2 million.
Three months before we found our house we gave an offer on five family on third street between 7 and 6. Asking price was 1.6 and our offer was accepted on 1.5 House was in a good condition, three appartments needed renovation but mostly cosmetics. We had to put down 25% which was an issue for us.
Probably you did not look at that time (2004) otherwise you would know better
If you buy now then who have no sense of what an investment is, even if you are going to live in the home.
Economic troubles are very close, those $5 lattes are in the past along with appreciating housing prices, i just hope we don’t have a Savings and loan crisis that we had in the past. Banks like Countrywide and many other smaller Savings banks gave out a lot of Shady financing. About 50% of the people who bought homes in the last 5 years would never have qualified under normal terms.
Who wants to live on a street called “THIRD PLACE”