465-13th-Street-0409.jpgWhen 465 13th Street in the South Slope was a House of the Day last month, its price had recently been trimmed from $1,775,000 to $1,650,000. Guess that wasn’t enough to get the job done because the price was just reduced another $65,000 to $1,585,000. How low can it go? The appraisal widget wasn’t up and running back in March when this was posted so let’s see what the wisdom of the crowd is on this one now. GMAP


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  1. Brickoven – i think you speak the truth for many owners(not all b/c I do feel there are many brownstone owners who did buy within the past 3 years and have enough cash in reserves to carry them through..

  2. there are 4 or 5 people who keep skewing the numbers by putting in the highest number possible. this speaks volumes of the desperation of people who have bought in the past 3 years. In trading we call it denial, the next stage is buyers remorse. Get ready to see a surge in inventory. Then the bids disappear and are lowered 10- 20 percent so the buyers have some space for error. Then the forced selling starts as people who have Option ARM’s start to explode and either cant refinance or cant afford the extra 2 percent on a jumbp mortgage. All this while there rent rolls are crashing. Big problems ahead. If you knoww you are gonna hve to sell i suggest you do it now before it gets worse.

  3. widget seems to price 20% off ask in nearly every situation.

    with that logic, everyone should price 20% more than what they really want. buyers get their “20% discount” and sellers are happy.

  4. 10th street – i agree with you, except i do see how a reno could cost someone upwards of $600K. i am guessing it needs full electrical and probably most plumbing too, i’m guessing you’d need to redo bathrooms and kitchens (hard to know without pics), fix up the garden, and, especially, if you want to redo the facade like folks suggest needs to be done, that amounts to a near-gut and then some. as a reference, there’s a similar place, but totally redone (totally over-the-top IMO) up the street asking $2.6. i think that’s nutty, but it may help this place seem like a bargain in context if you can get it for $1.3-1.4.

    looks like one apt. is vacant already, though, so maybe they’re ready to bargain.

  5. No way this goes for less than $1m. Only takes one buyer to keep that price up around the 1.4-1.5m range. There’s enough on show here to suggest someone will pull the trigger.

    Guess the flip question would be : if this house was fully renovated what sort of price would folks consider ? For something this close to the park fully loaded 1.7m to 2m is not out of the question. That said, and personal taste aside, i don’t see how a renovation could be costing someone in 600-750k range.

  6. This house is so gorgeous and classic. It’s everything you could want in a brownstone. Of course, you have to presume the kitchens and baths are somehow so shocking the agent was unable to take their photos.

    Why are you all saying $1 million or just under? Is that what brownstones sell for in South Slope? It’s right by the park. I don’t know the area, but with brownstones going for more in Carroll Gardens, that sounds low to me.