Open House Wrap-Up
Did anyone check out any of the Open House Picks this weekend? How about any other interesting places? We’d love to hear from those who can comment. Open House Picks [Brownstoner]
Did anyone check out any of the Open House Picks this weekend? How about any other interesting places? We’d love to hear from those who can comment.
Open House Picks [Brownstoner]
Email from the mortgage broker at the open house on 6th avenue indicated they had a accepted offer already. Seems to suggest a firmness to the market as we enter spring selling season in full swing!
email from a WL broker tells me that 15th st park slope has had an accepted offer or so they say, for “below the ask” with four offers total and is now basically off the market.
very strange. Almost feels like a bait and switch as WL will then recommend inferior listings for more money.
so much for the “bidding war” theory.
Well, once the house is sold, it’s very easy to find out what it went for almost immediately. Mary Kay Gallager is one of the only brokers who actually lists the selling prices of her listings once they’ve sold on her web site.
ditto on the last post. I heard the beverley house had a bidding war and went for a significant premium. I expect the stratford house will as well. I don’t think being near coney island avenue is a bad thing in the long run as that is where most of the foot traffic will be after all those developments get done.
The Stratford Road house is a deal for landmarked PPS pricewise because of several factors: it’s not huge compared to other houses in the area, it’s not on the most picturesque street, it has had some upkeep over the years. A house for under $1 million in PPS is unheard of these days. And, since it’s landmarked, close to the park, and psychologically closer to Park Slope than houses near Glenwood, there are a lot of people eager to move there. I’m not at all surprised they had serious offers.
The house on Beverley (Mary Kay Gallager) is in contract. Technically its in Beverley Square West, but just across the street from PPS. I think it’s a much nicer house in terms of design and period detail, needs some updating, but was also priced at $999. It’s going to contract. Anyone see both houses?
I saw the 15th Steet house. Given the current PS market, is a great price for what you get, even with the 15th Street noise and nearby women’s shelter a half-block away (which is noisier than we all care to admit). The house is a mismash — doesn’t quite know what it wants to be — there are 1970s-style elements mixed with exposed brick and marble sinks. The kitchen needs to be redone. But nevertheless, there will be a bidding war because it was underpriced — there’s a fair amount of space and privacy.
I know the owners of the Stratford Rd house and they had 3 offers after the open house–all over the asking price. They are anticipating a bidding war.
Are there? The only people I know with at 321 are those than kept them there after moving from Park Slope and having kids already enrolled.
In fact, I know one family that took their child out of 321 and enrolled them in the Eagle Program at 217.
With the exception of 321, which is arguably the best school in Brooklyn, there is no district 15 school which I would schlep to instead of 217 or the Brotherhood Institute.
But wait – aren’t parents from ALL over Brooklyn lying and pleading to get their kids into 321? I don’t think this is a phenomenon particular to any specific Brooklyn neighborhood.
What’s nice about the Ditmas Park elementary schools is that more and more local parents are actually sending their children to them…. 217 is one of the most pleasantly diverse (and I do mean diverse – equal amounts of everyone) you will ever see. Plus a great physical structure and good gifted program.
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if the school are so great, why are there so many people from Ditmas and Midwood applying to schools in District 15 or trying to get into PS 321?
Just curious.