Open House Picks
Fort Greene 53 South Oxford Brooklyn Properties Sunday 1-2 $2,500,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 137 Berkeley Place Heights Berkeley Sunday 1-4 $1,975,000 GMAP P*Shark Carroll Gardens 291 Hoyt Street Halstead Saturday 1-2:30 $1,495,000 GMAP P*Shark Bay Ridge 72 72nd Street Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $925,000 GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
53 South Oxford
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 1-2
$2,500,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
137 Berkeley Place
Heights Berkeley
Sunday 1-4
$1,975,000
GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
291 Hoyt Street
Halstead
Saturday 1-2:30
$1,495,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bay Ridge
72 72nd Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$925,000
GMAP P*Shark
everything is overpriced.
Unless they’re both wildly overpriced.
Dang! It’s amazing how little two and a half million gets you these days. Makes 191 Washington Park look like a real steal!
3rd street has been on market for very long time. was subject of postings awhile pack (when was open house pick).
As I remember – something about owner/family squabling and house doesn’t present well. Have not seen any reduction in price.
BTW – next door to Hoyt street – same size house sold 18 months ago for just over $1m. I’d agree with other post that $1.2 is more in line for the price.
anyone have info on the 19 3rd st house in carroll gardens? i was looking into b ut not familar with the house, looks like it has been on the market a while. any help?
There’s no pic of the owner’s kitchen in the Berkeley Place property because there IS no kitchen – there are two SRO-type kitchens on the 3rd and 4th floors but each lacks a stove (or, I suspect, the necessary gas line to install one). At the open house a couple of weeks back the broker put on the floorplan “future kitchen” for the back of the parlor floor.
Caveat emptor with Berkeley Place – see my post when this property was HOTD last week.
None of these properties is high-end, but they’re all being offered at high-end prices.
South Oxford: A prime block, but it’s a four-family with no details, shiny sub-flooring and low-end finishes and appliances — this place needs tons of work and I’ll eat my hat if they get anywhere near the asking price.
Berkeley Place: Another prime block, but I assume that crappy kitchen is from the rental unit. So why aren’t they showing the kitchen in the owner’s triplex? Probable answer: it needs to be gut renovated.
Hoyt Street: Teeny tiny. More sub-flooring. This house is located between Sackett and Union, so the brokers are certainly exaggerating when they say it’s “around the corner” from where the Whole Foods is being build on Third Avenue at Third Street. And I’ll go further and say they’re out and out lying by calling it “close” to Park Slope on the one side, and Fairway/Red Hook on the other. In NYC, I really don’t think you get to use the word “close” about anything that’s not within easy walking distance.
Bay Ridge: I don’t know this neighborhood, but as for the house … yuck!
It’s slim pickings out there.
I have seen the S. Oxford house. It was on Craig’s List all summer, first listed at 2.7 million, then 2.5, then 2.3 million. They were testing the market. I called when it was 2.3 and took a look while the owners (investors) were still cleaning the place out. It has ABSOLUTELY NO DETAIL. It was a shell a number of years ago and when it was bought, the interior was put together in the cheapest way possible for rentals. This place has absolutely no charm, but the location is great. They might get some interest if they listed it around 2 million, assuming someone would want to put serious money into renovation, heighten parlor ceiling, add detail. Or perhaps they could find a modernist who wanted new kitchens, bathrooms and floors but didn’t mind the white-box aspect of the place.
I have been inside of hoyt street over the summer. The place is so not worth more than 1.2 i dont care what you say there is hardley a backyard, the interior was done in a cheap home depot style kitchen. The block is ok but way overpriced, who will pay in this down market? only a sucker. But like i always say there is always a sucker out there now find him.