Six Months Later: Open House Picks 6/29/07
Comment: Makes sense the Clinton Hill manse would take a while to sell, though you have to wonder how realistic the price is. If anyone has info on the Bay Ridge listing, drop a line. Open House Picks 6/29/07 [Brownstoner]
Comment: Makes sense the Clinton Hill manse would take a while to sell, though you have to wonder how realistic the price is. If anyone has info on the Bay Ridge listing, drop a line.
Open House Picks 6/29/07 [Brownstoner]
Bklynnative, you’re serious? That’s pretty funny. Hey, if he can sell that house for 3.5 MM, it’d be worth a few callouses on his hands, ha ha.
To me, it seemed like the best bet was to sell that house at a price that would make it feasible to split into condos (which surely wouldn’t work at this price). But hey, somebody bought the Pfizer manse. You’re talking a verrry niche-y buyer, there. And here.
Let’s not lose sight of the memory that until not long ago (and still?) non-whites where not exactly invited by the welcome wagon in Carroll Gardens. At one time, residents looked at you cross-eyed if you were not Italian. Friends of ours move to CG in the mid-90s (he Italian-American, she Vietnamese-American). She regularly reported her discomfort and stares she got.
Why are things selling faster in Carroll Gardens than in neibs like Clinton Hill and Crown Heights? Carroll Gardens is really really safe, it was one of the safest neighborhoods even in the bad old days. The story was that it was where the Mafia’s mamas lived. Mrs. Gigante did live on 1st Place and liked to grow tomatoes in her front garden. Those tomatoes, that house, and the entire block, were the safest in the whole city, Nobody, nobody, messed around with folks in Carroll Gardens. Those houses are now occupied by the grandkids(these folks never sell). It is still the very safest neib in Brownstone Brooklyn, square and straight, and crime free.
Rehab,
I totally agree with you regarding the Minkmeister. I was strolling by that property the other day and was surprised to Minky out there raking up the leaves and planting some rose bushes. He had a couple of workers helping him but he clearly doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty. In fact, next thing I knew, he was climbing up a ladder and he started working on that cornice. Told off the roofer and said he could do a better job himself. Minkwinkster is the hardest working broker I’ve ever come across and you’ve got to love that smile.
Maybe he should just buy it himself, renovate it, and sell it. Problem is, he especially knows how bogus that pricetag is.
You have to be a serious asshole to gloat about the fact that it was somebody else’s neighborhood rather than your own in which two teenagers were shot, execution-style, in the head. Fuck you very much, Guest 2:24. I’m sure plenty of people have been whacked in Carroll Gardens, as there have been on Park Avenue, and in Dubuque, and everywhere else.
That said, I love Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and all of these beautiful neighborhoods. Girls, you’re all pretty.
On the Washington Avenue property, I agree that the price seems pretty damned unattainable, but it’s interesting to watch Minksy try. For those of you who don’t live in the neighborhood (I do), he’s been trying his damndest to up the place’s curb appeal–he totally landscaped the front yard, has been repairing the badly damaged cornice, and even went so far as to put Christmas candles in each window… (Wow, do those decorations come with the place? SOLD!)
Hey, you gotta hand it to the Minkmeister for trying.
It’s so fun to see how easy you take the bait. Have a Happy New Year everyone! Hope we all continue to make money in 2008.
Actually, 2:05pm, those who have to sell because they are moving to a new city are in a great position, even if they sell for less than they could have sold their place for a couple years ago.
Do the math. That person may take a 10-15% lower price selling their Brooklyn house, but then in the city they are moving to, they are buying a place that is discounted 20-30% (or even more, depending on the city). If someone has been thinking about leaving NYC it’s actually a good opportunity right now to do so.
The others doing fine are those who have no plans to sell. Which leaves us with the question, who should be worried? Flippers, that’s who. Those are the only ones. And who cares about them. It was their choice to take on that risk.
New Yawker: All is well. All is well! ALL IS WELLLL!
That post at 1:42 reads like simmering desperation about to boil over into full blown panic.