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]
1:21 IS the old stretched out wife
1:21, thats what people are talking about, you’re putting down people because you don’t think they have as much money as you or because they work in a coffee shop. That is the attitude that all the PS moms have. Thats the way they treat people who they feel aren’t on their level.
LOL…sounds like 1:21’s wife is also an old stretched out sack of potatos…oh well.
12:17,
Why? Is tonight your late shift at Gorilla Coffee?
It probably bothers you that the “bugaboos” you talk about cost more than your rent. Socioeconomic destiny. What a bitch.
And for the record, BUGABOOS DON’T COME IN PAIRS, so those of you complaining about them are mistaken. They’re probably McClaren.
And if you don’t have kids, get the fuck out of 321 please. Thanks.
11:48, You think whoever doesn’t find PS men attractive and manly must be lesbians or bitter barren spinsters. C’mon you have to admit PS people are a very unnattractive bunch. I work on 7th ave and it would be a miracle to see one attractive man a month, and I use the term attractive very loosely
Oh, and 11:48, have fun bedding down with that sack of potatos you call a ‘wife’ tonight. LOL
You really think all those posts were written by one person, only one person has had a bad experience with the people in park slope, are you crazy?
Ask anyone who is not a yuppie that lives here? Everybody hates yuppies and I know alot of you don’t think you’re yuppies but you are. If you didn’t grow up here you’re considered a yuppie. Even the first wave that moved here 20 years ago, are yuppies. If you know people who have lived here their whole lives, they can’t stand you. And we know that you hate us. Thats why you’re so rude and inconsiderate. The only good thing about yuppies is they brought the property values up so high here its unbelieveable. Just around the block from me they sold a house the size of shack for $1.3 million, who in their right mind would pay that much, its crazy.
If it is one person, s/he’s doing a hell of a job. This is getting more play than Hussein’s execution.
Thanks 12:26. We figured you were just making it all up.