Outlook 2007: Longs and Shorts
Note: We’re moving this post up from yesterday to encourage more input.Welcome to the third annual installment of our market prognostications. Last year, we picked Prospect Heights and Carroll Gardens to outperform and Williamsburg to slump, which in retrospect look like pretty good calls. As for next year, our eyes will be on the areas…
Note: We’re moving this post up from yesterday to encourage more input.Welcome to the third annual installment of our market prognostications. Last year, we picked Prospect Heights and Carroll Gardens to outperform and Williamsburg to slump, which in retrospect look like pretty good calls. As for next year, our eyes will be on the areas bordering Prospect Park that have the location and housing stock on their sides but have yet to attract widespread interest from the gentrifying crowd. We’d also be front-running the newly Brooklyn-focused Landmarks Preservation Commission by looking in spots like the soon-to-be-designated Crown Heights North. On the downside, it’s hard to see how increasing supply of run-of-the-mill condos coming on line in Williamsburg won’t continue to put downward pressure on prices. We’re not as wary about the effect of Atlantic Yards on surrounding real estate as some and continue to think that Prospect Heights has a lot to offer. As has been mentioned before, quality brownstones should continue to find buyers while those in more marginal neighborhoods and lacking architectural detail will likely have a tough time. Looking back on last year’s post, we can be thankful that we got our wish of a gourmet market (sorta) in the form of Choice. Now if we could just get a friggin’ cheese shop we’d be really psyched.
Market Predictions for 2006 [Brownstoner]
I bought an older house in W’burg years ago mostly because I know we are never going to have children (world’s already overpopulated, I don’t want to raise a kid in the city etc etc). I would love if W’burg looked like Park Slope, but instead I have all the bars, music stores, thai restaurants, waterfront, boutiques, galleries, locals that I could ever want. I feel like people think W’burg is overun by hipsters because they only ever go to Bedford and without the tourists/nyu students/bankers/strollers to dilute the population, there seems to be a lot of hipsters.
I did see 2 babies at brunch last Saturday though, and I did get really tense.
I think the problem with a lot of the “beave” in this thread is that it hasn’t been “gotten” in a while.
you all are missing the point here. Its not the Bugaboos that are the problem but the lesbians. Really, I mean c’mon, how tacky. I used to like to “get some beave” back when I was in Oberlin. But I got over it. Now I have a single family brownstone that used to house three families-we evicted them-and a place in the Catskills. Guess what all you pseudo-class warriors, I win, you lose.
Totally. Let’s just leave him to his precious bugaboos and Park Slope muthas.
Agreed. One evil troll had a bad day.
Long: Bay Ridge, Ditmas Park, Midwood, Kensington
Short: nabes in the shadow of AY
please everyone just ignore 3:51pm. this person (i’ll have to assume it’s a he) has nothing better to do with his time than write about his sad, pathetic stories about how mean ps moms are to him. let us all together play the small violin for him. good lord. he’s a little angry, don’t ya think…?
he continues to make the same pointless remarks and clearly by his lack of stories (or even acknowledgement) about any rude mothers outside of park slope, doesn’t leave the neighborhood too often…..
3:37, if you’ve got a point to make about semantics, dive right in….
STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!