Residential Sales from the New York Times
BEVERLY SQUARE WEST $945,000 238 Argyle Road 6-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath, 103-year-old Victorian-style house; dining room, eat-in kitchen, fireplace, finished basement; 1-car garage; 50-by-100-foot lot; taxes $3,338; listed at $975,000, 13 weeks on market (brokers: Mary Kay Gallagher; Brown Harris Stevens) WINDSOR TERRACE $365,000 185 Prospect Park Southwest 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 800-square-foot co-op in a prewar building;…
BEVERLY SQUARE WEST $945,000
238 Argyle Road
6-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath, 103-year-old Victorian-style house; dining room, eat-in kitchen, fireplace, finished basement; 1-car garage; 50-by-100-foot lot; taxes $3,338; listed at $975,000, 13 weeks on market (brokers: Mary Kay Gallagher; Brown Harris Stevens)
WINDSOR TERRACE $365,000
185 Prospect Park Southwest
1-bedroom, 1-bath, 800-square-foot co-op in a prewar building; dining area, home office, hardwood floors, 2 exposures; common garden and gym in building; maintenance $560, 45% tax deductible; listed at $399,000, 2 weeks on market (broker: Aguayo & Huebener)
From print edition only.
This is the best place to live in Brooklyn. Close to the Q (yay express trains), quiet friendly and safe neighborhood- kid friendly, even has a progressive coffee shop and a GREAT food co-op.
I found a great place and the price was right- $650 per roomate and we all have massive rooms with high ceilings, stained glass windows and oak floors. brand new appliances too. Our basement has a bar from the prohibition. Clearly, this neighborhood was the place to be at one point in history. Too bad it’s not anymore. I wish there were more bars and restaurants, but we do have Cinco De Mayo on Cortelyou, something worthy of checking out. Oh and also very good looking firemen next door. While this may be a lil trek from the city it’s worth it.
Question— is this neighborhood coming up and what was it like 10 yrs ago?
When you couple the year’s slowdown in appreciation (which seems in these past couple of months to have stalled) – with rising inventories, and P/E ratios, things look a little less rosy in NYC than you describe. The whole article deals with this.
I love that comment, price appreciation is decelerating. This is a way for the press to try to say that there is a bubble that is starting to pop. All that means is that homes that increased 20% last year only increased 15% this year. Either way, things are still going up around here.
I live in the neigborhood, Alex, and the best homes in Beverley Square West go for between 1-1.1 million presently. They are smaller (although still 5-7 bedrooms), on slightly smaller lots, and are less varied architecturally.
This house (if it’s the house I’m thinking of) has had some major alterations to the exterior, which are not that attractive, in my opinion. It definately does not have the old world charm many people want from a house in Victorian Flatbush. As described by realtors, it’s been modernized at some point and offers quite a lot of actual living space, although I don’t know how much original detail survives. It’s probably a pleasant enough house, in good conditon, but like I said – no exterior charm whatsoever. Hence a slightly lower asking price than one might expect for a truly well-preserved Beverley Square West, and since these houses were never designed to be as grand as the Prospect Park South houses, a few hundren thousand less than those go for… The only real bargains to be had in Victorian Flatbush these days are in South Midwood, otherwise knows as the Brooklyn College Neighborhood. It’s on the other side of Ocean Avenue, and rather cut off from the growing amenities of say, Cortelyou Road (which Beverley Square West is right next to – so extremely convenient. That it’s bprdered to the north by PPS is also a good point). That said, Bedford Road between Foster and Farragut as some great houses, including one with a fabulous third floor open turret
– you can stand there and see all of Brooklyn! I’ve never seen a house with this detail anywhere else in Victorian Flatbush. Just found it yesterday. That’s what I love about this neighborhood. THe architecture is so diverse and whimsical… always something new to catch your eye.
Sorry. Scratch my prior comment. The heat wave must be getting to me.
Alex, Alex, Alex: These are homes that already have sold and, if you paid attention, the house on Argyle is not in Prospect Park South, albeit relatively close thereto.
For those who haven’t seen it, Prospect Park South is a gorgeous enclave filled with beautiful homes. The $945K asking price for a home there doesn’t seem too bad.
If this is the house I’m thinking it is, it has had a quite a few alterations on the exterior. Not a lot of original charm left, unfortunately. The interior might be very comfortable, though.
Actually Ditmas Park, PPS, and Beverley Square West (and East)are all parts of plain old Flatbush (albeit what’s touted as Victorian Flatbush). There’s also Midwood Park, South Midwood (aka Brooklyn College Neighborhood), Ditmas Park West, West Midwood, and ALbermarle and Kenmar Terraces. These are the names that the individual developers gave their new projects as they bought up various area farms and started to build. Beverley Square West was built on what was originally Catherine Lott’s farm, except for the part running across Beverley Road – that was done a few years before by someone else (not part of PPS either).
Bev Square West homes are not as large as PPS homes, and have lots that are a few feet narrower. Built not for the uber rich, but for the very well off. although one of the Guggenheim Daughters did have a honeymoon cottege in BSW on Rugby.
The houses on Marlborough and Rugby were built to spec, but when that plan wasn’t entirely profitable, the developer, Ackerman, started to erect duplicates and triplicates on Argyle, Stratford, and Westminster. Like most other houses in Victorian Flatbush, they have lots of architectural detail, stained glass windows, window seats, carved woodwork, ornate moldings etc…